Mexico’s 2026 GDP Expected to Grow 1.3% Amid Challenges & More

With the transition toward Healthcare 3.0 accelerated by the pandemic, the proper handling of Big Data will be one of the healthcare industry’s main areas of focus. Bobbinet LatAm is betting on the region’s opportunity to develop technologies and methods for these processes. President and CEO Andrew Ahachinsky shares the company’s present and future plans to help companies rise to the occasion by offering patients empowerment and autonomy over their own data.
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Technology and healthcare continue evolving amid several challenges and crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced healthcare professionals and companies to become more creative and innovative to solve non-COVID-19 issues, such as cardiovascular surgeries.
Vitalmex innovated within its renowned articulated services to start offering its new itinerant articulated services, which work on an on-demand basis and help carry out procedures at different sites.
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Patient Blood Management arrives in Mexico to improve clinical outcomes and to limit the use and need for blood transfusions in at-risk patients. At Mexico Health Summit 2022, Christa Seipelt and Arturo Vivas of Sarstedt, Rafael Guerrero García of the Mexican Council of Clinical Pathology and Israel Parra of the Children's Hospital of Mexico Federico Gómez to share the benefits of patient blood management.
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As the pandemic brought advances in pharmaceutical technologies, delivery systems for these evolving supply chains had to adapt as well. During Mexico Health Summit 2022, pharmaceutical freight-forwarding industry leaders including Liliana Castillo of DHL, Miguel Angelo Ricchuiti of Apotex and Andrés Posada of Boston Scientific discuss technological advancements in medical logistics responsible for bringing medications and medical supplies to every region of the country.
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The global population is aging at an accelerated pace, with over 1 billion people aged 60 years and older. While this active phenomenon presents considerable financial challenges for countries across the world, it also opens opportunities for several actors, even in healthcare, agreed industry experts.
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Digitization is gradually taking over the sector. In Mexico, hospitals are the first ones to prove that tech adoption will provide benefits to an entire health chain. Listen to Jorge Camargo of Ecaresoft, Sandra García of Medica Sur, Santiago Yeomans of Christus CEI and Juan Caceres of Aidicare share their experience building a digital hospital.
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Personalized medicine presents one of the most exciting opportunities for the future of medicine and patient therapies. But as medical professionals continue advancing their efforts to create customized treatments, governments present case-by-case environments for their adoption and regulation.
David López of BioMarin Pharmaceuticals Mexico, Jaen Velazquez of Siemens Healthineers and Sandra Sánchez of PharmaAdvice discuss personalized medicine as it is evolving in Mexico and where they see this exciting innovation going.
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Genomics is taking diagnostics to a new level, making it possible to predict, diagnose and treat diseases more precisely than ever. It is necessary to continue expanding this practice across the world, agreed academia and industry experts.
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Medicine access in Mexico has been compromised by the pandemic and global logistic challenges. However, providers in Mexico are working hard to secure medicines for the entire population. At Mexico Health Summit 2022, Ignacio Merino of Farmacia Paris, Américo García of Apotex, Rodrigo Fernández of TEVA Pharmaceuticals and Marcos Pascual of ANAFARMEX met to share how they overcame challenges to provide medicine in the middle of a crisis.
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Although the Mexican health sector is far from reaching its full technological potential due to diverse barriers, technology will break paradigms and democratize primary healthcare and insurance culture in the country, agreed insurtech and health tech experts.
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Although the health sector’s budget has massively increased over the last two years in Mexico, most of it is being allocated toward COVID-19 efforts while other pressing national health crises, such as the rise of chronic diseases, are being neglected. Omar Tomey, Medical Director, AbbVie Mexico, speaks of equally important health issues, as well as the preventive and curative care methods for the growing percentage of the population with a chronic illness.
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Reskilling and training is always essential for continuous medical education. Most recently, tech has joined the list of subjects that are a priority for medical professionals to manage a better practice. Experts Jorge Valdez of TecSalud, Sonia Pérez of UDIBI-IPN, Igor da Costa of Docusign, Jorge Zita of CrowdStrike and Nidia Garza of MMM Holdings met at Mexico Health Summit to discuss the basics of this reskilling process.
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