News Digest 17.01.2024 — 19.01.2024
Regulators
Roszdravnadzor canceled more than 2.5 thousand licenses for servicing medical equipment
The Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare published Order No. 9896 dated December 29, 2023, according to which the licenses for technical maintenance of medical devices of 2,579 companies are terminated. The press service of Roszdravnadzor told Pharmaceutical Bulletin that this affected companies that did not reissue permits before January 1, 2024.
The service also noted that most of the organizations actually working in this area managed to renew their licenses. “Thus, the withdrawal from the market of organizations that have not reissued their license in accordance with the requirements of the law will not affect the quality and timeliness of maintenance and repair of medical equipment,” Roszdravnadzor is confident.
Now companies that have been deprived of their licenses can continue to carry out maintenance of medical equipment to meet their own needs, as well as service medical devices with a low degree of potential risk of their use.
MV wrote about what would change in the licensing of medical devices at the end of last year. To re-issue licenses, organizations had to comply with the specified requirements: decide on the type of medical equipment, purchase/rent equipment, have the required number of engineers on staff and train them, implement a quality management system (QMS). To meet the requirements of the QMS, you can use various tools: keep paper records, use non-core service tools.
Market news
Seven hospitals are planned to be built under concession in the Sverdlovsk region
The government of the Sverdlovsk region has published a list of healthcare facilities, the construction and reconstruction of which are planned under concession agreements in 2024. The order is posted on the region’s online legal information portal.
The list included the construction of an operating block of the Sverdlovsk Regional Clinical Hospital No. 1 with an area of 13.7 thousand m2, the creation and reconstruction of the clinical diagnostic center “Maternal and Child Health” and the rehabilitation building of the Regional Center for Medical Rehabilitation “Lake Chusovskoye” (19 thousand m2 ), as well as the construction of the second stage of the Territorial Center for Disaster Medicine (6 thousand m2) and the buildings of the clinics of Children's Clinical Hospital No. 8 (6 thousand m2) and Children's Clinical Hospital No. 11 (3 thousand m2).
Other
Artificial intelligence could replace up to 5% of the healthcare workforce as early as this year
Nearly one in five (18%) healthcare executives expect generative artificial intelligence (AI) to replace at least 5% of the workforce in 2024. Globally, such expectations are shared by 25% of executives, and in the media and entertainment markets - 32% (this is the highest figure), reports Becker's Hospital Review, citing research from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
At the same time, the need for labor will increase, according to the forecasts of survey participants. Thus, increasing hiring rates can offset the reductions associated with the introduction of AI. The study found that nearly half of healthcare executives plan to increase headcount by 5% or more in the next 12 months.
Rostov doctors introduced a neural network into the practice of outpatient patient management
An online survey conducted among doctors of 57 specialties from 130 cities of Russia showed that only 4% of Russian doctors are satisfied with the time limits for seeing patients, and if the current standard is increased, 59% of respondents will spend it on additional examinations and surveys . In order to carefully analyze the patient's medical history, medical decision support systems are increasingly being used to obtain a second opinion in the provision of medical care. Associate Professor of the Department of Polyclinic Therapy of Rostov State Medical University, general practitioner, Ph.D., spoke about innovations being introduced into everyday medical practice. Tatiana Tayutina.
WHO releases guidance on ethics and governance of generative artificial intelligence
The WHO has released new guidance on the ethics and management of large multimodal models, a type of fast-growing generative artificial intelligence technology. The organization called on countries to ensure that solutions implemented comply with human rights legislation and introduce mandatory audits to assess the impact of their implementation.
New registered medical devices
We publish a list of new medical devices registered from 01/12/2024 to 01/19/2024
Link to the list: [see. table in attachment]
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