Health technologies are a highly complex sector within R&D, products, processes and players in the medical-scientific context. The industrial environment is marked by a high degree of technology intensity, multi-disciplinarity, regulations and competition. In this challenging field German health technology has developed dynamically in the previous years and is well positioned in the international scene. Traditionally and nowadays Germany is a leading location for medical industry and science. As an innovative future sector, it is of high importance in society by contributing essentially to the creation of jobs and prosperity and to a better medical service.

Today, innovative medical and pharmaceutical products are fundamental to the therapeutic and diagnostic arsenal of medicine. Modern medical technology enables e.g. minimal invasive and careful surgery, the use of intelligent artificial replacements and implants or improved diagnostic by new image-guided processes. Diseases, difficult to treat so far, can be treated more specifically, even prevented right from the beginning, by innovative concepts of agents. In the future partial disciplines of health technology will strongly converge. Here, the trends of molecularisation, miniaturization and computerisation will be the focal points. Presently, red biotechnology is already interlocked with the development of the pharmaceutical and medical technologies.