“ Today the aggressive competition and the new procedures for the public and private hospitals contracts reduce drastically the operating margins of the companies. Only with new innovative products and a specialised support “ad hoc” this condition can be contrasted “
Me.T.A. Italia refers to all the companies of the biomedical area that wish to receive a real and valid support to the solution of any problem regarding the R&D and/or the Marketing.
Competences of Division R&D :
- Technical support regarding the new and innovative “medical devices” through a series of processes among which:
- Design valutation (in synergy with Marketing and RA & A Divisions)
- Patentability
- Productive feasibility
- Planning
- “Start up” of the production systems
- Packaging
- Manuals (in synergy with RA & A Division)
- Optimization of the existing production processes
- Optimization or re-examination of existing Medical devices
- Cooperation with inner corporate R&D for support of part of activated plans.
- Research of new and innovative “medical devices” through a series of initiatives among which:
- Public Relation with national and foreign hospital and academical Opinion Leaders
- Valutation of the Clinical validity (in synergy with R&D Division)
- Analysis of the real and potential market
- Economic value attributable to the device
- Competition
- Research of national and foreign distribution network
- Coordination between R&D Division and University Departments for the creation of university or academic “spin off”.
- Outsourcing service to the companies of the biomedical area for professional figures, like Clinic Specialist or Product Specialist, inserted for a determined time to support the promotion of medical devices in the national hospital structures, to assist or to support pre-existent sales network.
- Courses of clinical/specialised formation, preparatory to the corrected promotion and sale of new or existing medical devices, directed to the sale staff of the company/customer with the presence of well-known and qualified teachers.
- Internal /external customer support:
- For medical Device Life Cycle Assessment (LFA)
- For Medical Device Classification
- On Risk Assessment (Risk Analysis, Risk Management, Risk Mitigation, etc)
- On technical file and manuals drafting.