Claudine Blaser becomes new head of Medgate Switzerland

Medgate was founded in 1999 and today employs around 300 people in Switzerland, including more than 100 physicians, and more than 500 employees worldwide. Since 2000, Medgate has been operating what it claims is the largest medical telemedicine center in Europe. The Medgate Mini Clinics and the doctors and clinics of the Medgate Partner Network are available to patients for on-site consultations.

Now there will be a change in leadership: Claudine Blaser will become the new Managing Director of Medgate Switzerland. Andy Fischer, MD, who has led Medgate's Swiss business since its founding, has already focused on managing the international Medgate Group as Group CEO since 2021. Andy Fischer: "I am grateful that with Claudine Blaser we have been able to win an experienced leader with a large network in the Swiss healthcare sector for Medgate Switzerland."

Claudine Blaser: "Always rethinking medicine".

Claudine Blaser has more than 20 years of experience in challenging management positions and various industries related to health and medicine. The 51-year-old studied natural sciences at ETH Zurich, obtained her doctorate in immunology and completed an ETH master's degree in business administration. After holding various positions at the start-up Cytos Biotechnology AG, she was Managing Director of the ETH Phenomics Center before joining Argomed Ärzte AG, a service company for integrated care, as Managing Director. In 2020, Claudine Blaser took over as Head of the Health Division at Helsana.

On July 1, 2022, Claudine Blaser will begin her role as Managing Director at Medgate Switzerland. "I am looking forward to this new challenge and the opportunity to work with Medgate's dedicated team and its business partners to develop medical solutions for our customers.
We have to constantly rethink and redesign our products and services to meet the needs of our customers," she says.

Further international growth

The internationally active Medgate Group is pursuing the goal of being a leading global digital health provider and is striving for geographic growth in this context. With the majority shareholding announced in March of this year by the international
trading and services group Otto Group, headquartered in Hamburg, and the acquisition of BetterDoc GmbH, the European market leader for the search and placement of highly specialized physicians, Medgate created the conditions for implementing the corresponding growth strategy.

Source: Medgate