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AI in healthcare: the World Health Organisation’s regulatory considerations
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has published regulatory considerations on artificial intelligence (AI) for healthcare in October this year. The aim of these considerations is to promote international collaboration in AI regulations and standards in healthcare, which is vital to ensure the safe and appropriate development and use of AI systems. While the WHO already made calls for safe and ethical AI for health in May 2023, specifically concerning AI-based large language models (commonly labelled...
December 5, 2023
5 min read
EMA’s envisaged risk-based and human-centric...
Bird & Bird’s international life sciences and healthcare...
September 14, 2023
6 min read
AI and the life sciences, navigating the complex legal...
Bird & Bird’s international life sciences and healthcare...
August 10, 2023
5 min read
AI as a Medical Device
To add to all the chatter about AI, let's talk about AI...
May 22, 2023
3 min read
The Impact of the NIS2 Directive and the CER Directive for Medical Device Manufacturers and the Healthcare Sector
The rise in the volume of cyber incidents, the war in Ukraine, and the recent pandemic, has increased...
February 17, 2023
9 min read
Update on the UK’s future medical device regulations: Extended timelines
The UK’s Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has recently announced the introduction...
October 31, 2022
2 min read
The Activation of Payback on Medical Devices
The Italian Ministry of Health, in a Decree dated 6 July 2022, certified the overrun of the expenditure...
October 7, 2022
1 min read
Final(ly) Rules of Procedure of the UPC
Apart from the Unified Patent Court Agreement and a large body of further treaties, regulations,...
July 18, 2022
1 min read
Artificial Intelligence Systems for Medical Diagnosis
The Italian Ministry of Health has published a document on its website entitled “Artificial Intelligence...
May 25, 2022
1 min read