Welcome to the last 2024 installment of Arnold & Porter’s Virtual and Digital Health Digest! This digest covers key virtual and digital health regulatory and public policy developments during November and early December 2024 from the United Kingdom and European Union.
Of note, health authorities in the EU continue to develop methods to assess…
This digest covers key virtual and digital health regulatory and public policy developments during October and early November 2024 from the United Kingdom and European Union.
Regulatory and legislative reform is on the horizon in both the UK and in the EU, which will impact software and artificial intelligence (AI) medical devices. The UK government…
A new report commissioned by Arnold & Porter, based on a survey of 100 senior executives and department heads from biopharmaceutical, digital health, diagnostics, and medical device companies, shows that artificial intelligence (AI) adoption is accelerating across the industry as companies implement it to accelerate product discovery and development, optimize manufacturing and the supply chain,…
On 14 October 2024, the day of the International Investment Summit, the UK government published its green paper ‘Invest 2035: The UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy’, a ten-year plan designed to promote growth in the UK, with a focus on growth-driving sectors, including the Life Sciences and the Digital and Technologies sectors.
The Industrial Strategy will…
This digest covers key virtual and digital health regulatory and public policy developments during September and early October 2024 from the United Kingdom and European Union.
Guidance on AI continues to be published. In the EU, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has published its Reflection Paper on the use of AI throughout the medicines life…
On 8 October 2024, the UK government launched the new Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO), which aims to “reduce the burden of red tape” faced by businesses when bringing innovations to market, including artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare technologies and engineering biology products such as vaccines and cultivated meat.
The RIO, established within the Department of Science,…
Earlier this week, the EMA published its Reflection paper on the use of AI in the medicinal product life cycle. As set out in our previous blog post, the EMA’s draft reflection paper was published for consultation in July 2023, and following many months of review of the feedback collected from the relevant stakeholders,…
This digest covers key virtual and digital health regulatory and public policy developments during August and early September 2024 from United Kingdom, and European Union.
There have been some important reimbursement updates this month. In France, the French health regulator has issued a negative opinion on the first digital therapeutic that sought reimbursement through the PECAN…
On 5 September 2024, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Heads of Medicine Agencies (HMA) published a guidance document (the Guidance) with general principles and recommendations on the use of large language models (LLMs) in regulatory science and the regulation of medicinal products. The guiding principles for users are also summarised in a one-page…
In our recent blog post, we reviewed the overall impact of the new EU AI Act on the life sciences industry. The AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), which entered into force on 1 August 2024, is the world’s first comprehensive law regulating artificial intelligence (AI). While some provisions are already applicable, the…
