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Ashley Yeo
Ashley Yeo is attached to the medtech titles within Informa’s Pharma intelligence division.
As Health Care editor on In Vivo (monthly hardcopy and online daily services), he writes and commissions news and feature material to meet the strategic business and market access information needs of senior players and device makers as they move innovations into the global medtech market place.
As part of the Principal Analyst team, he also contributes news delivery and insight needs across the group’s other medtech titles in the field of market access (global regulatory, reimbursement, policy changes). Key areas of focus are Germany, the UK and global themes, and EU and other outside global regulatory insight.
A linguist by training, he joined what was later to become Informa in mid-1988 as a French and German news reporter (with some other European languages also in the mix), and has been editor of three of the group’s titles (including Clinica) over a 14-year-period.
These duties are combined with supporting the growing Ask The Analyst service. He says: “This helps us as a group keep a close relationship with long-term and potential subscribers in a sector where insight and knowledge are key to our clients’ commercial success.”
Latest From Ashley Yeo
UK MHRA In The Spotlight As Cumberlege Review Puts Medtech Safety At The Top Of Health Agenda
The findings of the Cumberlege Review into how safety issues for three medical product groups were handled will shape debate on the UK’s new devices legislation, now going through parliament. The MHRA’s devices regulatory activity also comes in for scrutiny.
UK Medtechs Fear That Pre-COVID-19 Activity May Be Over A Year Away
Top of the agenda for the medtech industry globally is when the “new normal” will return. In the UK, the expectations are that post-COVID-19 health care activity will increase gradually, but it is possible that the National Health Service will not reach its pre-coronavirus capacities until late in 2021, “if at all.”
UK NHS Urged To 'Bottle COVID-19 Spirit' For Future Health System Change
Residual resistance to digital health care solutions in the UK NHS disappeared “almost overnight” when COVID-19 compelled the rapid adoption of new tools to meet the surge in demand and cope with supply challenges.
UK Medtech Industry Seeking More Clarity On Restart Of Elective Procedures
COVID-19 led to a significant reduction in elective procedures carried out by the UK NHS, broke referral pathways, and put a virtual halt to diagnostics and screening programs. The likely next stages and the concerns of the medtech sector are top priorities for the ABHI.
Virtual Clinical Trials Find Bigger Voice As COVID-19 Forces Pharma Rethink
The use of virtual, real-time and at-home testing to provide clinical trials data has been steadily gaining the interest of the health care industry. COVID-19 has put this opportunity into sharper focus, says CNS trials technology developer Cambridge Cognition, which is now adding a voice option to its portfolio.
Device Week, 3 July 2020 – Asia Regulatory Update & International Medical Device School
This week's Device Week podcast covers recent regulatory developments in Asia in the wake of COVID-19, and how regulators are adjusting to working under the pandemic. Having published two updates from our regular Asian Medtech Associations Reg Networking discussions this week, Medtech Insight speaks to Asia Regulatory Professional Association founder Jack Wong on Asian regulatory themes and South Korea's hosting of the next International Medical Device School.