That’s a good term to describe a situation of limited situaltional awareness resulting from many things happening at the same time very quickly, and a good term to decribe the situation we are currently in with the medical devices and IVD regulation proposals and the amendments proposed. Tsunami of amendments The period for tabling amendments […]
Now that rapporteur Roth-Behrendt’s proposed amendments for the medical devices regulation proposal are out, it could not take long for rapporteur Liese’s amendments for the IVD regulation proposal to also be published. And here they are. Basically this proposal is not jerking the wheel in the other direction as the Roth-Behrendt proposal does, but is […]
Well, the long awaited DRB (Dagmar Roth-Behrendt) report is here. I read through it as quickly as I could, answered a bunch of press questions and can now give you my preliminary view. I have poked fun at the process before with the ostrich picture but having read the proposal I am feeling more cynical […]
I had the privilege to preside a session about eHealth and mHealth at the DIA Euromeeting in Amsterdam last week, joined by Mr Tapani Piha, Head of Unit for eHealth, Health Technology Assessment and Science of DG SANCO of the European Commission and Mrs Marianne Fournier of Voisin Consulting. In a lively session we took […]
Well, the 26 February workshop is behind us. The expectations were high, but I think in the end the workshop turned out to be the dud I expected; some people I spoke with rather called it a theatrical sizzle or a dud with some drama. A nice factual and chronological overview can be found in […]
With the ENVI committee “workshop” on the medical devices regulation and IVD regulation proposals in sight next week, medical devices media have been drumming up momentum by using exciting adjectives like ”fireworks” that make this workshop sound like it will be an ‘epic battle‘, or how about a ‘clash of the titans’? I wouldn’t want to go […]
The end of the year is upon us, and I’d like to take the opportunity to wish the readers of this blog all the best for the new year, a new year with lots of exciting developments ahead. This post will not be the usual regulatory and legal analysis of rules, but something more forward […]
Last week the Commission launched its new eHealth Plan (EHAP). It was announced under the header “Putting patients in the driving seat: A digital future for healthcare”. A nice rundown of the relevant documents is here and a good summary by MedTech Europe (Eucomed and EDMA) is here. Then there is the convenient overview and […]
“S is for scrutiny, which we’re not sure about”, that would be more or less the take home message of the MedTech Forum in Brussels that I attended last week from Wednesday to Friday. This conference is an ideal moment to take stock of the EU medtech industry. No wonder that everyone was there to […]
Dear readers, while I am working on the promised blog posts on parts of the new regulation proposal for medical devices, I would like to let you know about the two and a half hour afternoon seminar that my firm will organise this 14 November in cooperation with Philips Healthcare and the Qserve Group. As […]