News Digest 01.11.2023-03.11.2023
Regulators
Roszdravnadzor has updated the list of alcohol-containing medical products
The Roszdravnadzor Commission on the Formation of Alcohol-Containing Medical Products has added to the list of products that contain alcohol and are not subject to regulation by the Federal Service for Control of Alcohol and Tobacco Markets (Rosalkogoltabakregulirovanie, RATR). There were 110 titles left on the list, three were rejected, and another five were excluded.
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Governor Alexander Beglov presented in the Legislative Assembly a draft budget for St. Petersburg for the development of the healthcare system for the next 3 years
Over three years, 627 billion rubles will be allocated for the development of the St. Petersburg healthcare system. Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov presented the draft three-year budget at a meeting of the city Legislative Assembly on October 31. More than 96 billion will be allocated for the construction and reconstruction of 26 healthcare facilities, including the construction of a perinatal center in the Kalininsky district. About 9.6 billion will be allocated for the overhaul and equipping of 98% of primary care medical institutions. Another 19.5 billion rubles will be spent on improving the material and technical base of medical institutions, of which 14.3 billion rubles will be spent on purchasing equipment for 143 clinics (53 will undergo major overhauls worth 5.2 billion rubles).
Source: https://www.gov.spb.ru/press/governor/268895/
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The expert predicted that accreditation would become more difficult when using AI to prepare tasks
The Russian Ministry of Health may begin to use artificial intelligence in preparing tasks for the accreditation of medical workers. This can significantly complicate the procedure and will require doctors to spend more time on preparation, predicts medical lawyer Alexey Panov.
The Ministry of Health is assessing the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) methods in creating (generating) new test tasks and situational cases for the accreditation of medical and pharmaceutical workers in accordance with the specification of the assessment tool (specialty, discipline, nosology, labor functions), the deputy told RIA Novosti Minister of Health Tatyana Semenova. This can make the procedure more difficult, requiring doctors to spend more time educating themselves.
An artificial lung has been patented in the USA
A new device developed by an Israeli startup and positioned as an artificial lung has been patented in the United States. The developers claim that their compact device can almost instantly increase the patient’s oxygen saturation to 95% or higher.
The startup developed the device to reduce the need for mechanical ventilation systems, which are associated with a 50% mortality rate among patients, can increase the risk of coma and even cause bacterial infections or other lung damage. INSPIRA ART500 is designed to rebalance oxygen saturation levels in minutes in awake and breathing patients.
The device can be used to treat patients both in intensive care units and beyond. In the context of an aging population and an increase in the incidence of COPD and related respiratory diseases, the demand for such technologies will grow, the developers note.
Source: https://medvestnik.ru/content/news/V-SShA-zapatentovali-iskusstvennoe-legkoe.html
New registered medical devices
We publish a list of new medical devices registered from 11/01/2023 to 11/03/2023
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