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As a compliance professional, it’s exciting to witness new Codes of Ethics take root worldwide.  Voluntary industry Codes of Ethics serve several important functions.  A credible Code demonstrates industry’s ability to self-regulate, in turn fostering consumer and governmental trust and confidence.  A Code centers stakeholders on the most meaningful business principles that the entire industry […]

Editors’ Note: This blog is the first part of a series on Digital Health, which aims at presenting the challenges of the new digital revolution and demonstrating how digital health is empowering people to better track, manage, and improve their own health. During the European MedTech Forum (2-4 December 2015) follow the conversation and learn from industry […]

If the activities of the medical technology industry are viewed through the prism of either corruption or honesty, then the draft MedTech Europe Code of Ethical Business Practice could be considered as an endeavor to dissociate the industry from the former.  The draft code does so by providing a clear and stringent framework, ensuring that […]

When the European Parliament finalised their amendments for the Proposal for a Regulation on in vitro diagnostic medical devices in October 2013, they set the scene for a process that has continued through several Council Presidencies. The continued discussions are a reflection of the complexity of the file and the need for careful consideration of the technical aspects of the text, which should lead to the creation of a positive environment for innovation, safety and patient access across Europe.

This time last year, I wrote a blogpost about the priorities MedTech Europe would be working on in 2014. This year, I’ve decided to take a different approach. Based on what I see, hear and read every day, I’ll outline what I believe to be the major medtech trends, topics and evolutions we’ll be talking […]

Yesterday, EDMA and Eucomed announced recommendations to respective members on how to improve their Codes of Ethical Business Practice. Chief among their recommendations are a phase out of direct sponsorship and stricter guidelines for indirect sponsorship of healthcare professionals to attend third-party organised conferences. They’ve also committed to working with stakeholders to elaborate new models […]

With the summer holidays well and truly behind us, and temperatures outside gradually dropping, I am sure the temperature inside the EU institutions is rising as the EU machine is picking up steam again. Commission portfolios have been handed out, the Commissioners-designate will soon be vetted, and certain competences are being moved from one Directorate-General […]

We’re right in the middle of a year of change in the EU. Europe has begun voting and EU politics may look quite different as a result. New things and new faces may be on the horizon but that doesn’t mean that work has stopped on a file of great importance to the Union’s more […]

“How much is my life worth?” Patricia Garcia-Prieto, professor of Organisational Behaviour at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management and a mother of six and 11-year olds has asked this question multiple times. In her video, as a patient representative on a panel, she has been vocal about this thought that passed her mind every day. […]