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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Japan Panel Backs Mandatory Medical Data Sharing by Major Hospitals
A Japanese government panel has broadly endorsed a new framework for the secondary use of medical data that would require certain major hospitals with research functions to provide such data to government-certified private operators. The proposed framework, backed by the…
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