News Digest 01.03.2024 — 04.03.2024
Regulators
ANO "Consortium "Medical Technology": the concept of a priority development territory in the Russian medical industry
Over the past three years, the domestic market for medical devices has changed radically. First, the pandemic, and then sanctions from the countries where the world's largest manufacturers of medical equipment are located, gave new impetus to the transformation of the Russian medical industry. And if previously we were talking about localization and smooth import substitution, now the priority is to achieve technological sovereignty. New challenges required a fundamental update of the agenda for intra-industry dialogue. Following the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, the trend was picked up by the ANO Medical Equipment Consortium, a non-profit association of leading developers and manufacturers of medical equipment that has secured the support of industrial partners from among the largest market players, leading scientific and medical organizations, as well as financial development institutions.
How the industry association sees the future of the domestic medical industry, Vademecum was told by the Chairman of the Board of the ANO Medical Equipment Consortium, Deputy Head for Prospective Projects of the Federal State Institution “Property Management of Special Projects” of the Russian Ministry of Defense Sergei Ogarkov and the General Director of the ANO Medical Equipment Consortium Kirill Litvitsky.
Market news
The Ministry of Health will receive another 30 million rubles for the purchase of glucose monitoring systems for children with diabetes
The Russian government has increased the size of its reserve fund for 2024 by 30.12 million rubles. These funds are intended for the Ministry of Health to provide subsidies to regions for the purchase of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems for children with type 1 diabetes, according to the order of the Cabinet of Ministers.
At the end of November 2023, the government approved the Rules for the distribution of funds between the regions of the federal project “Combating Diabetes Mellitus” for the purchase of LMWH systems. In total, the Cabinet of Ministers will allocate 5.1 billion rubles to the regions, most of which (more than 4.5 billion rubles) will go to provide for older children, and about 150 million rubles are allocated for children 2-4 years old. About 1 billion rubles. it was planned to send it already in 2023, the rest - in 2024.
An MRI service center will be built in the Moscow region for 1.3 billion rubles
Infrapro, a manufacturer of technical gases and a service company for servicing cryogenic equipment and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners, plans to build a repair center for such medical equipment in Solnechnogorsk. The volume of investment in the project is estimated at at least 1.3 billion rubles, the Ministry of Investment, Industry and Science of the Moscow Region reported.
Construction will take four years. The commissioning of the first stage of the enterprise is scheduled for the third quarter of 2025.
FAS fined cartel participants in the supply of drugs and medical products
The Primorsky Department of the FAS fined Simran LLC, Poly-trade LLC, Agat Plus LLC and Hardey LLC in a total of 656,603 rubles. for concluding and implementing a cartel agreement, this was reported by the press service of the regional OFAS.
According to the service, the companies entered into and implemented an anti-competitive agreement in the supply of medicines, medical equipment, consumables and cleaning equipment for Vladivostok Clinical Hospital No. 4. Organizations submitted applications for participation in procurement, and if there were no competitors, they refused further work, so thus concluding a contract at the highest possible price. This behavior violates clause 2, part 1, article 11 of the Law on Protection of Competition.
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The first urological operation using the AUTOPLAN surgical navigation system was performed in Crimea
Surgeons of the Samara State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia, together with their Crimean colleagues, successfully performed the country's first operation in the field of urology using the AUTOPLAN surgical navigation system, developed at Samara State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia. It took place at the Clinical Medical Multidisciplinary Center of St. Luke of the Crimean Federal University (KFU). The operation was the result of cooperation between two universities within the framework of the Priority 2030 program.
The AUTOPLAN surgical navigation system allows you to continuously track surgical instruments in relation to the patient's anatomical structures, avoiding damage to functionally significant areas, and display them in real time on the monitor screen. This reduces surgical risks and postoperative complications.
Samphire Neuroscience has developed a “rim” for pain during menstruation
The Nettle device is designed as a headband. It will be worn on the head and deliver a weak electrical current, affecting the prefrontal and motor cortex of the brain to modulate neuronal activity. This stimulation will promote neuroplasticity (the brain's ability to change and adapt) and help reduce pain during each phase of the menstrual cycle.
Nettle is the first at-home brain stimulation device designed to address both chronic pain and mood symptoms.
The startup has already received preliminary funding of $2.2 million.
A computer program for diagnosing schizophrenia using MRI has been created in the Russian Federation
Scientists at the Kurchatov Institute have developed a classifier program that is capable of diagnosing schizophrenia using an MRI of a patient’s brain with 85% accuracy. The program is planned to be used in medical practice, and in addition, for further research of the disease - after all, the causes of its occurrence are still not fully known. The work is being carried out jointly with specialists from the psychiatric clinical hospital No. 1 named after N.A. Alekseeva.
It is noted that with the help of the classifier it was possible to identify eight regions in the brain, changes in the functioning of which in most cases indicate a mental disorder. In total, the program analyzes the work of more than a hundred areas of the brain.
It is clarified that the program will help in cases where psychiatrists have difficulty making an accurate diagnosis. It can also help when contacting a specialist is not possible.
In the UK, artificial intelligence will be introduced into the healthcare system to diagnose skin cancer
The project is funded by the National Health Service (NHS). The news writes about the implementation of a solution based on artificial intelligence technologies for diagnosing skin cancer called DERM in several public health organizations in the UK.
DERM has been tested by the local regulator and registered as a medical device. It works the same way as our domestic ProRodinki application: diagnostics are carried out using a smartphone. The website of the DERM developer company says that with the help of the application, a general practitioner can diagnose moles that are bothering a patient and refer him to an oncologist, if necessary.
Interestingly, UK residents cannot download the application for self-diagnosis of moles from the application stores, since it is a medical product and is intended for use exclusively by medical professionals.
Source: https://skin-analytics.com/
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