This article was originally published on Medtech Intelligence. Artificial intelligence devices or products, known popularly as AI, imitate intelligent behavior or mimic human learning and reasoning. In its more basic forms, artificial intelligence has been used in the healthcare field to perform... Read More
As part of the first phase of a broader trade pact signed by Chinese and U.S. officials in January, China has agreed to enact a system to prevent infringement of drug patents, a move that may boost protections for branded drugs in... Read More
Fueled by a lack of access to preventative eye care and a dearth of public vision screening programs, myopia, and other ophthalmologic conditions are on the rise in East Asia. In one city in China, a 15-year study completed in 2015 found... Read More
Employing a raft of restrictive trade, financial, procurement, and insurance policies, Chinese authorities are increasingly insulating the country’s domestic medical device industry from foreign competition. Beginning in 2018, China began to require that a growing number of state-run hospitals buy domestically produced... Read More
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As China’s drug market grows exponentially, more foreign API, excipient and drug packaging material companies look to sell their products in China. In August 2016, to simplify the drug review procedure, the former CFDA announced that the review and approval of APIs,... Read More
Systematic evaluations of the effects of health technologies in Japan, China, and South Korea conducted over the past three years are showing success in determining the clinical benefits and cost-effectiveness of widely used drugs, adjusting pricing of drugs and medical devices and... Read More
In a bid to reduce prices of sorely needed medical devices, China is set to expand a trial bulk purchase program that has made coronary stents, pacemakers, prosthetics and other medical devices more affordable in the provinces of Jiangsu and Anhui. Under... Read More
Seeking to more effectively manage, distribute and ensure the efficacy of publicly funded vaccines, Chinese health authorities plan to institute a web-based national vaccine tracking system in the next three months. The system, piloted in seven major provinces last year, is designed... Read More
This article was originally published on MedTech Intelligence. Driven by an aging population with growing needs for new medical technologies—and more means to pay for them—governments and hospitals in China, Japan, Singapore, Thailand and Korea are joining forces to purchase an increasing... Read More