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Industry Focus Areas, Medical, Regulations

As EU-wide health technology oversight law nears passage, industry is not pleased

July 6, 2021

Via: MedTech Dive

HTA bodies are best known for their assessments of the value of new medicines, which can lead to countries choosing not to pay for approved products. Some of the bodies also play a role in assessing the value of new […]


Industry Focus Areas, Medical

Abbott gets CE mark to sell COVID-19 antigen test directly to consumers in Europe

June 28, 2021

Via: MedTech Dive

Abbott is betting that frequent rapid COVID-19 testing at work, school and home are critical to enabling European economies to fully reopen and to allow daily life activities to resume. With CE mark approval for the direct-to-consumer Panbio, the diagnostics […]


Industry Focus Areas, Medical, Regulations

5 things medtech can expect from FDA in 2021

March 15, 2021

Via: MedTech Dive

To say that 2020 was a challenging year for FDA would be an understatement. The COVID-19 pandemic stretched resources thin as it grappled with unprecedented regulatory demands as a result of the U.S. public health emergency. FDA’s response to the […]


Industry Focus Areas, Medical

Heidelberg Engineering wins FDA nod for upgraded eye imaging technology

September 20, 2018

Via: Mass Device

The FDA has approved Heidelberg Engineering’s optical coherence tomography angiography module (OCTA), the company said today. The module is available for new and existing Spectralis upgradeable diagnostic imaging devices used to manage diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration and other macular […]


Design & Planning, Industry Focus Areas, Medical, Process

FDA focuses on digital health and diagnostics in 2018

February 2, 2018

Via: Mass Device

US FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb provided some key digital health initiatives along with his vision on how he wants the agency to work with the sector in the coming years. A published list of the commissioner’s priorities titled “Healthy Innovation, […]