On 8 November 2021, the Vietnam government signed Decree 98/2021/ND-CP regulating the management of Medical Devices. The new decree enters into force on 01 January 2022. From this date, Decree 36/2016/NĐ-CP, Decree 169/2018/NĐ-CP, and Decree 03/2020/NĐ-CP will become obsolete. The new decree covers many aspects of medical device management from
Abridged processing for applications of registration or notification of medical devices in the Philippines was introduced on 25 November 2021 as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued Advisory No. 2021-3084. The introduction of this advisory means that medical devices that have already been approved by the regulatory authority of
New requirements for supplying COVID-19 Rapid Self-Test Kits in Malaysia were released by the Malaysian Medical Device Authority (MDA) on 10 November 2021 in Guidance Document MDA/GD/0059. The document guides companies on the requirements to follow in order to place Covid-19 Self-Test Kits on the market. This guidance is separate
Over recent years, the Vietnamese Government has issued various Decrees regulating the management of medical devices including: Decree No. 36/2016/ND-CP dated 15 May 2016; Decree No. 169/ND-CP dated 31 December 2018, and Decree No. 03/2020/ND-CP dated 01 January 2020. However, in order to unify regulations on medical device and equipment
The Ministry of Health (MOH) together with the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) and Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS) has co-developed a guideline on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare which was published in October 2021. The guideline aims to promote good practices and encourage safe development and implementation of artificial intelligence in
To alleviate the burden on frontliners and to ease the detection and control of Covid-19 cases, the Health Ministry’s Medical Devices Authority (MDA) has granted conditional permission for the import and distribution of the Covid-19 self-test kits into the country. Circular letter No. 1/2021 dated 14 July 2021 was posted
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