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How Will Pharma Use Health Data for Clinical Trials in the Future? The Power of Clinical Trial Tokenisation

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In brief On 25 October 2022 leading researchers and executives from some of the world’s pioneering drug and pharmaceutical companies came together at a Financial Times Live Webinar event to discuss “The Power of Clinical Trial Tokenisation”. Tokenisation of healthcare data is likely to be one of the next great innovations for developing life-saving drugs and treatments through the method of privacy-preserving record linkage (PPRL). This allows pharmaceutical companies to “tokenise” and link previously scattered…

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The UK’s MHRA Publishes Roadmap for AI and Software as a Medical Device

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In brief The UK government has recently published its roadmap for regulating AI as a medical device (AIaMD) and software as a medical device (SaMD). This will form part of the basis of the upcoming UK Medical Device Regulation reforms in 2024. In light of the operational difficulties faced by the NHS, AIaMD and SaMD are attractive solutions to alleviate pressures on the UK health system. Yet these products are complex and require a high…

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Telemedicine stays a national issue? European Council scraps key telemedicine provision in European Health Data Space

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In brief In a draft compromise text obtained by Politico, the European Council has dropped a key provision seeking to harmonise telemedicine from the draft European Health Data Space (EHDS). The (now-removed) Article 8 was aimed at encouraging the cross-border provision of telemedicine services across the EU. However, the reality is that there are vast national differences between Member States on telemedicine-related laws. It is going to require a far more concerted legislative effort to harmonise this area…

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