The US Food and Drug Administration has signed an agreement with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to enhance information sharing between the agencies. The agreement would satisfy their...
The UK health technology assessment body, NICE , has published the first draft guidance under its medical devices evaluation programme, which aims to accelerate the adoption of new technologies in...
UK health technology assessment body NICE has chosen the Electro-Optical System (EOS) Low Dose 2D/3D x-ray imaging system as the first technology to evaluate under its new diagnostics assessment...
The UK health technology assessment body, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), is seeking feedback on two proposed guides for its Evaluation Pathway Programme for Medical...
The Department of Health in England will consider extending its “innovation pass” scheme to medical devices “at an appropriate time in the future” 1 ,2 . The scheme is currently applicable only to...
The Department of Health in England will consider extending its “innovation pass” scheme to medical devices “at an appropriate time in the future” 1 ,2 . The scheme is currently applicable only to...
Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration has been asked to introduce by 2011 more rigorous pre-market approval requirements for higher-risk devices to satisfactorily establish the safety of these...
Canadian medical technology industry association MEDEC is proposing to develop an institute to demonstrate the economic value of medical technology in Canada 1 . The Value of Medical Technology...
Consultant haematologist Adrian Newland has been appointed as the first chair of the newly created Diagnostics Advisory Committee at the UK health technology assessment body, the National Institute...
The UK Department of Health is developing a programme that would allow for the sustainable collection of information on the uptake of innovation in medical technology, and is also developing a...
The year 2009 was key for the UK medical technology sector. The Kennedy Review, the Office for Life Sciences blueprint and, last month, the start-up of NICE’s Medical Technology Advisory Committee,...
The UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has published a draft update of its guide to the technology appraisals appeal process, for open consultation 1 . The guide...
Andrew Dillon , chief executive of the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence , has been awarded a knighthood for services to healthcare in the New Year's Honours list. Sir...
The US Department of Health and Human Services has put out for comment an interim final rule that would impose tougher penalties for violating federal provisions designed to prevent the misuse of...
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in the UK is launching a new programme that will focus specifically on the evaluation of innovative medical technologies. The Evaluation...
