Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on March 5 unveiled the revised NHI prices for drugs subject to…
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MHLW Aims to Set Up Evaluation Index, Sakigake System for SaMD by March
Japan is poised to compile an evaluation index for software as a medical device (SaMD) and introduce a pilot-based sakigake system for such products by the end of next March in a bid to facilitate commercialization in this fledgling field,…
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