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Healthcare community calls for action: Do not fail patients and undermine the full potential of the European Health Data Space
BioMed Alliance, as part of a multi-stakeholder group consisting of 32 European patient organisations, medical associations, research organisations, data collaborations and industry associations met E...
CORE-MD Press release highlights lack of evidence for high-risk medical devices
Investigators from the CORE-MD Project revealed at the end of August 2023 in an article in the European Heart Journal that a majority of new high-risk medical devices that are used to treat hear...
Doctors call on the Commission to address limited availability of medical devices, particularly for children
BioMed Alliance published a new press release calling on the European Commission to implement concrete actions in order to prevent a critical shortage of medical devices, particularly for children and...
Press release and letter to European Commission call for urgent action to address device shortages
On 27 June 2023, BioMed Alliance published a new press release calling on the European Commission to implement concrete actions in order to prevent a critical shortage of medical devices, particula...
Press release calls on the Commission to address limited availability of medical devices, particularly for children
BioMed Alliance published a new press release calling on the European Commission to implement concrete actions in order to prevent a critical shortage of medical devices, particularly for children and...
Multi-stakeholder EHDS Workshop to kicked off discussions on the proposal
The EU Health Coalition, with the support of BioMed Alliance, EAU, EFPIA and COCIR organised a hybrid workshop with stakeholders and policy makers on 18 May to 'Maximise EHDS impact on better health d...
Updated survey shortages medical devices (February 2023)
In February 2023 BioMed Alliance launched a new survey on current/upcoming shortages of medical devices. With this short survey, the BioMed Alliance would like to assess whether clinicians experi...
BioMed Alliance welcomes 3 new members
The BioMed Alliance has welcomed 3 new member organisations this year. We look forward to working with the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) the European Society of Paediatr...
Time is running out: BioMed Alliance calls for urgent measures to improve the availability of essential medical devices.
Continuing challenges for the implementation of the EU Medical Devices Regulation (MDR) will be discussed by health ministers during the EPSCO meeting on 9 December.
The BioMed Alliance believes th...
Press release calls for urgent measures to improve the availability of essential medical devices ahead of EPSCO meeting (November 2022)
BioMed Alliance published a press release ahead of the EPSCO meeting on 9 December 2022 calling for a variety of measures to mitigate a shortage of medical devices. Recommended steps include an extens...
BioMed Alliance selected as stakeholder in the HERA Civil Society Forum
The BioMed Alliance was appointed as a member of the European Commission’s HERA Civil Society Forum. The Forum, as a sub-group of the HERA Advisory Forum, will help to ensure that HERA receives regu...
BioMed Alliance survey on the limited availability of certain medical devices
BioMed Alliance published an important survey on the availability of medical devices in August 2022. It assesses if clinicians experience that any devices that they normally use are no longer availabl...