News Digest 10.01.2025 — 17.01.2025
Regulators
The Ministry of Finance will change the requirements for purchasing medicines and medical devices from small businesses and NPOs
The Russian Ministry of Finance has proposed simplifying the requirements for government customers to purchase goods from small businesses and socially oriented non-profit organizations (SONPOs). Currently, according to the federal law "On the contract system in the sphere of purchasing goods, works, services to meet state and municipal needs", the minimum volume of purchases from such business entities is set at 25% of the total annual volume of purchases. The regulator considers it necessary not to take into account the cost of purchasing medicines and medical devices by a customer whose annual volume of such purchases exceeds 20 million rubles when calculating the total annual volume of purchases.
Market news
More than 4 billion rubles will be allocated for the construction of a rehabilitation center in Moscow
The Government of the Russian Federation has approved an order to provide a subsidy from the budget of the Pension and Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation for the construction of a rehabilitation center in Moscow. The total cost of the project will be 4.042 billion rubles.
The design capacity of the rehabilitation center is 200 places.
The government order specifies that funding will be allocated in stages from 2025 to 2028. This year, 255.4 million rubles will be allocated for the project, in 2026 - 1.07 billion rubles, in 2027 - 1.14 billion rubles, in 2028 - 1.58 billion rubles. 144.6 million rubles are allocated for design and survey work.
Rehabilitation centers are also being built in other regions. For example, in February 2024, it became known that in 2025, in the city of Berdsk, Novosibirsk Region, they will begin building a rehabilitation center for participants in a special military operation. The construction will take place in two stages, and the work is planned to be completed in 2028. The regional budget has allocated 1 billion rubles for the construction of the facility.
In June 2024, the Berezka sanatorium and preventorium in Zelenogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, was re-profiled into a Social and Health Center for SVO participants. The institution planned to accept its first patients on July 1, 2024. Last year, 172 million rubles were allocated for the maintenance of the rehabilitation center.
Other
NUS Medicine presents new AI for early diagnosis of brain diseases
Researchers from the National University of Singapore have developed a new analytical tool that offers a new approach to analyzing brain activity.
The Brain-JEPA (Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture) model identifies brain regions and how they function individually and dynamically with other regions. It also breaks down complex patterns of brain activity into smaller parts so that they can be analyzed more effectively.
Source: https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/asia/nus-medicine-unveils-new-ai-early-brain-disorder-diagnosis
Hong Kong University Brings Mobile Dental AI to Community Care
The Dental AI Community Care Project is an AI-powered mobile app for detecting gum disease. It will train volunteer dental students and community members to provide personalized oral care advice using GumAI technology developed by a team of researchers from universities in China and Malaysia.
The mobile app displays the gum health results in different colors, making it easy to spot potential oral health problems: red indicates poor oral health, yellow indicates the need for precautions, and green indicates good health.
HKU Dentistry aims to expand the project, which is currently in its first three months, to 18 districts in Hong Kong. The project is supported by an older people-focused union and support organization; he also received support from lawyers and county officials.
Source: https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/asia/university-hong-kong-brings-mobile-dental-ai-communities
A robot for paralyzed people has been created in the Republic of Korea
A team of researchers from the exoskeleton laboratory of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has presented a prototype of the WalkON Suit F1 robot, which allows people with lower limb paralysis to walk. The innovative design is attached to the human body and helps to take steps, overcome obstacles and even climb stairs, the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reports.
Source: https://bigasia.ru/v-respublike-koreya-sozdali-robota-dlya-paralizovannyh-lyudej/
Newly registered medical devices
We publish a list of new medical devices registered from 01.10.2025 to 01.17.2025
Link to the list: [see table in the attachment]
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