Hong Kong Medtech Regulators Face Need For System Update

19 Oct 2018

Speed and efficiency are apparently on the minds of Hong Kong's regulators, who have proposed to shorten approval times for medical device registrations, and are considering granting earlier approvals, subject to certain criteria. Stakeholders are showing guarded optimism in early responses.

New proposals have been put forward by Hong Kong Department of Health's Medical Device Control Office (MDCO) to create a modern, efficient regulatory system that incentivizes innovation.

The MDCO, which runs the region's Medical Device Administrative Control System, acknowledges that there is currently no specific legislative control...