Persodia Observations capture selected developments worth noting across the diagnostics ecosystem. They may emerge from conferences, professional dialogue, regulation, markets, capital, procurement, technology or healthcare practice.
Observations are deliberately lighter and more immediate than Insights. They capture developments while they are still evolving, preserve useful field context and create a bridge between current activity and deeper analysis. Event Notes remain an important part of this section, but they are not the only format.
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When Partnership Is Critical, the Team Makes the Difference
What the Spanish diagnostics market shows about competing through complex solutions In complex healthcare markets, the best product is increasingly not enough. Customers are being asked to deliver more clinical value with constrained people and budgets, and the solutions they need now combine technology, workflow, service, supply, integration — and,…
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The Triumph of Specialists
This year (at ADLM) I had the chance to verify a old thesis about the role of Specialists in the expansion of diagnostics. Spot on! It came from looking at the market. Put all the specialist areas of diagnostics together and they add up to a remarkable part of the…
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A Land of Opportunity
Most of us grew up with the idea of America as the land of opportunity — a place where hard work could build a better future. I have arrived in Anaheim in something of that spirit. Next to Disney’s wonderland, I am more interested in the other one down the…
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Merck Future Insight Prize 2026, Darmstadt
From “Hearing the Light” to Preventive Health Understanding The 2026 Merck Future Insight Prize focused on a provocative proposition: future healthcare may depend increasingly on the ability to observe biological change before symptoms, deterioration or clinical crisis make it visible. The prize was awarded to Professor Vasilis Ntziachristos for his…
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5 Signals from HLTH Europe That Reveal Diagnostics’ Next Challenge
I attended HLTH Europe looking for signals about the future role of diagnostics in healthcare. AI dominated the agenda, but the most interesting observation was not AI itself. It was the convergence of five themes: Taken together, these conversations point to something larger than technology. Health intelligence is being built.…
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Healthcare as Seen at HLTH Europe 2026
This Observation draws on HLTH Europe 2026 as a selective but useful view of where healthcare attention is moving. No conference represents the full reality of healthcare. Conferences highlight certain themes, attract particular audiences, and leave much of everyday clinical, operational, and institutional life outside the room. Even so, they…
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