Tagged with regulation

Sweden Region Stockholm is responsible for all publicly funded healthcare in the Stockholm region. Its chairman, Irene Svenonius, explains her agenda to transform and modernize the region’s healthcare system to improve its efficiency, enhance patient value and prepare it for the technological revolutions to come. A key part of her plan…

China More accessible and affordable healthcare for all: China’s government has outlined several proposals to expand healthcare reform in a report released 4th June by the General Office of the State Council. These proposals include improving disease and treatment systems, expanding rural healthcare, and reforming hospital management and pricing.    Health…

Taiwan Shih-Chung Chen, Minister of Health and Welfare of the Republic of China (Taiwan), gives an update on the Ministry’s current directives under the Biomedical Industry Innovation Program to bolster Taiwan’s biomedical and biotechnology sectors. Minister Chen goes on to explain how new technologies in digitalization and driving Taiwan’s standard of…

Opinion Aditya Bhattacharji takes a look at the potentially damaging impact of political uncertainty across Europe – including the impending exit of the UK from the European Union – on pharmaceutical firms across the continent.   The right-leaning parties that will play a more prominent role in European politics are even…

Taiwan Taiwan boasts one of the most sophisticated and comprehensive public health systems in Asia. However, mounting costs and the pressures of a rapidly ageing population mean that the National Health Insurance (NHI) system may run out of money within the next two years without significant reform.   NHI expenditures have…

Taiwan Taiwan’s Minister of Economic Affairs, Jong-Chin Shen, outlines the initiatives implemented by the Ministry to help Taiwan’s industries reinforce their competitive advantage. Minister Shen also goes on to explain the Ministry’s specific role within the Biomedical Industry Innovation Promotion Program under the administration’s 5+2 Innovative Industries Policy.   Taiwan’s investment…

Opinion Brendan Shaw* outlines the benefits that greater adoption of outcome-based payment models for medicines can bring, highlights recent successful implementations, and explains why policy updates are so important to ensuring a more comprehensive rollout of these models around the globe.   We’re looking forward to being one customer of many…

Croatia Lawyer Ira Perić Ostojić highlights recent regulatory updates in Croatia, where the legal status of cultivating and producing cannabis for medical purposes has been liberalised.   On 25 April 2019 the Amendments to the Act on Combating Drugs Abuse entered into force in Croatia, which liberalizes the cultivation and production…

Opinion Aditya Bhattacharji examines whether current healthcare models are truly fit for purpose and how healthcare is becoming a more politicised issue globally.   Globally, the healthcare sector is entering a lengthy period of heightened introspection. That process has been turbocharged by the resurgence of healthcare as a dominant social and…

Croatia Lawyer Ira Perić Ostojić outlines two major new regulatory updates regarding pricing and reimbursement for drugs in Croatia.   Bylaw regulating the maximum permitted wholesale price of the prescription medicinal products The bylaw regulates the detailed criteria for determining the maximum permitted wholesale price of prescription medicinal products in Croatia and…

Lithuania Ruta Pumputiene examines recent regulatory reform in Lithuania, as the Baltic nation attempts to introduce a holistic HTA mechanism for the evaluation of what to include on the country’s reimbursable medicines list.   It is not yet clear whether the new procedure will complicate and damage Lithuanian patients’ access to…

Egypt After months of discussion, in December 2017 Egypt’s Parliament approved a new national health insurance law that aims to overcome some of the inherent problems in the current healthcare system and offer better medical services to the public.   We have studied enough, the time for implementation is now! Dr…