News About: Goverment
“No extensive telemedicine will cross the current law”
Minister Neung-Hoo Park clarified that the scope of ‘telemedicine energization’ that has been vividly discussed in the health care world would just be what is currently allowed with ‘cooperative medical care’ under th...
Pharmaceutical Product Renewal System brings down sales on pharmaceutical industry
It was concerned the Pharmaceutical Product Renewal System which started last July have impacted on pharmaceutical companies’ sales.
Last July, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety(MFDS) enforced the ‘Pharmaceutical ...
‘Succession to Pharmacy Ownership’ implemented to simplify process
Each process of transferring and buying out pharmacy ownership will be simplified as ‘succession to pharmacy ownership.’
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) decided the ‘Partial Revision Bill to the Pharmaceutic...
What are more important than worrying about subject to financial gain & expenditure report between CSOs and pharmas?
The Financial Gain & Expenditure Report which will be enforced from January next year has once emphasized importance of internal and external auditors on pharmaceutical companies.
It was once suggested even though su...
Health insurance benefits for Repatha Inj Prefilled Pen & Taltz PFS Inj start this August
Products such as familial hypercholesterinemia therapy ‘Repatha Inj Prefilled Pen’ and psoriasis therapy ‘Taltz PFS Inj’ has been newly registered for health insurance benefits and will be eligible to receive them fro...
MFDS officials receive KRW 1.4 billion lecture fees for the past 6 years
Public servants at the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety(MFDS) reportedly received more than KRW 1.4 billion fees for outside lectures for the past 6 years.
The Board of Audit and Inspection(BAI) recently revealed the...
Government tends to designate more ‘hospitalization specialists’
The Ministry of Health and Welfare(MOHW) might additionally designate medical residents at hospitals with hospitalization specialists.
The MOHW announced the evaluation result of the hospitalization specialists opera...
Pharmacies unapplied with the separation will be prohibited from dispending steroidal agents starting on 25th
From the coming 25th, pharmacies which do not have to follow the separation of drug prescribing and dispensing will also not be able to dispense and sell steroidal agents without doctors’ prescription. Whoever violati...
Government to shorten commercialization process for in vitro diagnostics from 390 to 80 days
The government has promised to minimize times to acquire approval and innovatively reform the system.
President Moon Jae-In visited the Medical Device Policy Reform Conference at Seoul National University Bundang Hos...
MFDS allows patients to import drugs containing cannabis for self-care purpose
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety(MFDS) announced on the 18th that they would start a process to legalize patients with rare and/or incurable diseases, such as epilepsy, that has no substitute in Korea to import dr...
