On 3 February 2025, the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) launched a consultation asking for stakeholders’ views on draft guideline in relation to the regulation of individualised mRNA cancer immunotherapies (Draft Guideline).
The aim of the proposed guideline is to establish a clear and streamlined regulatory pathway to authorisation so that…
Welcome to the latest installment of Arnold & Porter’s Virtual and Digital Health Digest. This digest covers key virtual and digital health regulatory and public policy developments during January and early February 2025 from the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union.
In this issue, we discuss some useful international guidance documents from the International…
Welcome to the latest installment of Arnold & Porter’s Virtual and Digital Health Digest. This digest covers key virtual and digital health regulatory and public policy developments during December 2024 and early January 2025 from the United Kingdom, and European Union.
In this issue, we feature the emerging trends in digital health in 2024 that…
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,…
