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Ing. Eduardo Fernandez Sardá
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CHARLAS DE INGENIERÍA CLÍNICA – Hospital Garraham / SABI
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WHO Medical Devices Newsletter, June 2019
145th Session of the Executive Board, discussion on Nomenclature of medical devices:
1.1 Documents and webcast of session:
The 145th Session of the Executive Board took place at WHO headquarters, Geneva, 29 and 30 May 2019.
The agenda of the EB included discussion on Nomenclature, classification and coding of medical devices.
BACKGROUND:
You can access the WHO report on the Standardization of nomenclature that was discussed. In it, WHO proposed that a standardized classification and nomenclature of medical devices would serve as a common language for recording and reporting medical devices across the whole health system at all levels of health care for a whole range of uses. Today, no common name is harmonized to describe the devices by industry, regulators, procurers and final users in hospitals of by patients by all nations. WHO principles in public consultation during 2018, can be found here.
More information on principles towards international nomenclature, classification, and coding can be found here.
EXECUTIVE BOARD SESSION:
The session was all recorded and live streaming. You are most welcome to watch and listen the important discussion and the requests from Member States, here,
- The statement by Director General is in minute 21.29-22:22 and
- The statements by Member States members of the Executive Board are from 1:03:47 to 2:04:25.
In the opening speech, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director General, emphasized the importance of standardized nomenclature:
‘Developing and adapting a global standard for naming medical devices is a perfect example of WHO’s core normative standard-setting work.‘
Assistant Director General: «Maria Angela Simao stated: «…finally the goal is to move towards convergence and harmonization»
1.2 Actions and next steps:
As indicated by Dr Nakatani, chair of the Executive Board, WHO will proceed with an analysis, Member State consultation and will present a report to the next Executive Board session 146th in January 2020″
WHO secretariat will proceed accordingly and you will hear more on this topic in future specific communications.
72th Session of the WHO World Health Assembly (WHA72)
2.1 Information:
The World Health Assembly took place in Geneva, Switzerland 20–28 May 2019.
Several topics related to medical technologies have been discussed, including:
Concerned about the high prices for medicines, vaccines, medical devices including in vitro diagnostic tests and assistive devices, and the unequal access, the WHO member states adopted aresolution to urges the countries to publicly share information on the prices of health products, support access to costs of clinical trials (regardless of outcomes), and work collaboratively to improve the reporting of information by suppliers on registered health products.
You can read the full text of the PROPOSED resolution on Improving the transparency of markets for medicines, vaccines, and other health products.
WHA72 recognized patient safety as a global health priority and adopted the WHA Resolution on global action on patient safety, including establishment of annual #WorldPatientSafetyDay on the 17th September.
Many any of the WHA sessions have been recorded and are available to watch.
1.2 Next steps: The full text of the resolutions will be made available in next months and WHO will disseminate .
Technical advisory group on Digital Health
WHO is establishing a global multi-disciplinary technical group to advise us on issues related to digital health.
Members of the technical advisory group will have an understanding and experience working in digital health, national or large scale digital health programs and policy, artificial intelligence and health, virtual and augmented reality in healthcare, biomedical innovation, robotic surgery, wearable technologies and health and wellness, traceability (e.g. blockchain) and health, ethics, governance and security in healthcare ecosystem with focus on digital health, health economics with focus on digital health and health law with focus on digital health technologies.
Launch of WHO Health Product Profile Directory
WHO’s new Science Division launched a free-to-use online resource to guide the development of new health products for which there are limited markets or incentives for research and development.
An essential tool for realizing universal health coverage, the Health Product Profile Directory provides a searchable database of profiles for health products needed to tackle pressing health issues in global health including those prioritized by WHO.
Building in these characteristics at an early stage of the development process is essential to ensure that the final products will be accessible to the populations that need them.
Read more about the Product Profile Directory here. And if you have a Preferred product characteristics or target product profile, you can upload ; and you can use this directory to start the development of new technologies.
Careers at WHO
New positions under recruitment by WHO
Technical officer P4 , work on regulations of medical devices, in Geneva, contract duration, one year, apply on line, here posting open from 20 June to 11 July, 2019. Please share with possible candidates.
Information on medical devices regulations and WHO documents can be found: https://www.who.int/medical_devices/safety/en/
Calendar of events (2019)
VIII Congreso Latinoamericano de Ingeniería Biomédica (CLAIB 2019), 2-5 October 2019, Cancun, Mexico.
International Clinical Engineering and Health Technology Management Congress 2019, 21-22 October 2019, Rome, Italy.
IHF 43rd World Hospital Congress 2019, 7-9 November 2019, Muscat, Oman.