• 2022-05-31 02:38:03

The COVID-19 epidemic has undoubtedly boosted the healthcare industry digitization worldwide. Personal medicine, telemedicine, genomics, and wearables are predicted to increase significantly over the next half decade thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), extended reality (XR), cloud computing, and the internet of things (IoT). In the face of this trend, there are several opportunities and problems particular to the Asian medical device industry. In this article, we examine the general situation of the Asian medical device industry as well as the Chinese, Japanese, and ASEAN markets in further detail.

• 2022-05-26 14:21:34

On March 29, 2022, the Vietnamese MOH hosted a virtual conference to provide clarity to the new Price Declaration Process and announced the establishment of a new online portal for license holders to declare prices. Accordingly, all medical devices must publish the price in the DMEC website before placing the product in the Vietnam market, effective from April 1st, 2022.

• 2022-05-26 14:17:56

The US FDA offers manufacturers an opportunity to interact with FDA's experts to speed up the necessary processes for breakthrough medical devices to enter the US market. As a result, manufacturers with breakthrough medical devices have several benefits in the premarket review phase and a prioritized submission review.

• 2022-05-26 14:08:10

A German manufacturer of innovative software and telemedicine applications in the field of ophthalmology is now looking for distribution and business partners in various Asian countries.

• 2022-05-26 13:57:18

PFDA extended the CMDN Requirement of Class B-D Non-Registrable products until March 2023. This will allow continue selling of the affected products in the country using a License to Operate as the requirement. In addition, PFDA shared draft regulations pertaining to the earlier released Abridged Route Evaluation and COVID-19 products using new technologies.

• 2022-05-26 13:54:50

The Malaysian Medical Devices Authority (MDA) has decided to replace the requirement for lot-to-lot variation testing for the approval of new lots of COVID-19 test kits with the requirement under the establishment's post-market duties and obligations. With these, the establishment need to notify MDA of any new lot of the test kit that will be placed in the market.

• 2022-05-26 13:49:52

Screening and inspection of the importation of medical devices are being carried out at the main entry points of malaysia. This is one of the mechanisms to curb the activities of importing medical devices without a valid license, registration or authorization.

• 2022-05-26 13:46:04

Japan's Adverse Event Glossary are amended to match with the IMDRF's terminologies.

• 2022-05-26 13:40:37

The National Public Procurement Agency, which is responsible for managing the government's “e-Katalog”, issued provision No. 122/2022 concerning the Procedures for Organizing Electronic Catalogues. This changed the previous “e-Katalog” mechanisms including MoH's Sectoral E-Katalog.

• 2022-05-26 13:11:53

NMPA has organized and revised the “Guidelines for the Compilation of the Annual Self-Inspection Report of Medical Device Quality Management System”, which has been promulgated and shall come into force on May 1, 2022. The Guidelines for the Compiling of the Annual Self-Inspection Report of Quality Management System of Medical Device Manufacturers issued by NMPA (No. 76 of 2016) previously shall be abolished at the same time.