Device Registries In Asia-Pacific/MENA Needed As Focus On Real-World Data Grows

Device industry groups are urging manufacturers and contract research organizations to get involved with an initiative to build medical device registries in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, as regulators and reimbursement bodies in these regions increasingly focus on real-world data. They say stakeholders would be able to collaboratively assess this kind of data before any decisions were taken that could affect patient access to therapies.

Medtech companies in Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East and North Africa are being encouraged to support an initiative tackling the tricky business of creating medical device registries in these regions. The effort comes as outcomes data from registries are expected to increasingly inform regulatory and reimbursement decisions.

Governments in several Asia-Pacific countries, such as Japan, Australia and the Philippines, have already started stepping up their own calls...

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