61 Medical technology: With an average increase in gross value added of about 2.7 per cent per year since the year 2000, medical technology has recorded a growth dynamic that is far above average. This is almost four times as high as that of the entire sector. In Schwerin, innovative companies such as TecMed Deutschland GmbH, HNP Mikrosysteme GmbH or Ypsomed Produktion GmbH are on course for growth. Health tourism: With a value added share of 4.0 per cent of the entire sector, the contribution of health tourism in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is more than twice as high compared to the rest of Germany . Health-promoting food: This sector has a particularly high impulse effect. The production of health-promoting foods generates another approx. 352 million euros of value added from other sectors of the economy in addition to the approx. 137 million euros of direct value added. Health services: West Mecklenburg is an important health location that offers numerous services. The Schwerin Clinic is a maximum care provider and the university campus of the MSH Medical School Hamburg. 330 doctors are on duty here every day. Innovative ideas meet fertile ground. arztkonsultation ak GmbH, founded in Schwerin, has carried out more than one million video consultations with its arztkonsultation.de platform in just two years. SUB-SECTOR WITH PARTICULAR GROWTH POTENTIAL Health economy in figures: » Around 12,300 companies » 156,000 employees in MV » 20.8 per cent of the workforce » over 6 billion euros in gross value added in MV » 4.4 per cent of the total GVA in the state » More than every 7th euro is generated in the health economy Focus: Health economy I
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTkyOTU0Ng==