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Top 20 Countries in Healthcare Innovation 2026 

Shots  PharmaShots ranks 20 countries on health-innovation capacity from a 35-economy pool, using five equally weighted public indicators: health spending, physician supply, R&D intensity, researcher density and clinical-trial activity (data snapshot 15 October 2026).  Sweden leads with 84.4/100, followed by Austria (82.6) and Switzerland (81.0); Denmark, Germany and Belgium complete Tier 1, while the United…

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Pharma Market Access Conferences 2026: Where Commercial Teams Meet the Decision-Makers

The pharma market access conferences worth a commercial team's time in 2026 share one trait: they put market access, HEOR, and medical affairs leaders in the same room as the payers and health system executives who actually control access.   Reaching prescribers is not the same as winning system adoption, and the events below are where that second, harder conversation…

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Anne Arnold, Senior Director, Education & Training at Smile Train Shares Insights on New VR Platform for Pediatric Surgery

Shots:  Anne started by talking about the launch of the first-ever cleft surgery virtual reality platform in collaboration with Biodigital, which simulates surgery on cleft lip and palate, a birth condition  Anne explained how the VSS VR Extension technology enables surgeons worldwide to collaborate in virtual operating rooms, ensuring safer surgery and better outcomes for…

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