News and blog posts
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May 2017
The National Board (Socialstyrelsen) has developed a new national guideline for the treatment of stroke with a significant focus on mechanical thrombectomy. MTRC provides an overview of key recommendations, which concern diagnosis and treatment phase using medical technologies.
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May 2017
In 2016, the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) commissioned the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) to perform evaluation of controlled active motion (CAM) in patients with rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament. The final report of assessment was published on May of 2017. No definite conclusion can be made in relation to comparative efficacy and safety of studied technologies due to lack of evidence.
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23
May 2017
MTRC has completed reimbursement report for robotic surgery in 11 EU countries. Procedure codes are available only in number of geographies, including Belgium, Denmark, England, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. Robotic-specific procedure codes are not available in Austria, France, Italy and the Netherlands.
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22
May 2017
Belgian Health Care Knowledge Center has released new clinical guidelines for evaluation and management of low back pain without serious underlying cause and radicular pain (including neurogenic claudication). It has number of implications for medical procedures, including transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, radiofrequency denervation, disk replacement, spine fusion and other.
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19
May 2017
MTRC is working on the number of reimbursement reports including robotic surgery, ablation of heart tissue for atrial fibrillation, coronary imaging and interventional procedures, mechanical thrombectomy for stroke, peripheral intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), and peripheral vascular procedures on veins for deep vein thrombosis.
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May 2017
In 2014, Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) commissioned Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) to conduct health technology assessment of different approaches for lung volume reduction in patients with severe pulmonary emphysema. And now IQWiG has published the final report. The main conclusion is that it was not possible to draw any conclusion about relative effectiveness of bronchoscopic and surgical methods due to lack of the data.
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18
May 2017
Since the start of the program of the off-the-shelf reimbursement reports, MTRC has released 12 reports in the areas of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), transapical and transluminal mitral valve repair and replacement procedures, and peripheral vascular interventions, including drug-coated balloons, drug-eluting stents and percutaneous atherectomy.
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18
May 2017
Guidelines focused on treatment for recurrent and metastatic cancer, neoadjuvant treatment and the most optimal diagnostic strategy.
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18
May 2017
The report issued within the framework of Joint Action 3 confirmed superiority of triclosan-coated sutures in reducing the risk of total incisional surgical site infections over non-antibacterial coated sutures. No conclusions were made in relation to the chlorhexidine-coated sutures due to lack of evidence.
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17
May 2017
At the meeting of 18th of April National Commission for Evaluation of Medical Devices and Health Technologies made decisions about add-on reimbursement of 17 medical devices. Ten decisions have been released to date for orthopedic, osteointegrated processing, cardiac and intravascular devices.
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17
May 2017
Russian Government has approved draft legislation about telemedicine in the country. It covers number of elements including united information system in health care, exchange of information about stakeholders in health care, ability to perform teleconsultation, remote monitoring and to issue electronic prescriptions.
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16
May 2017
Cédric Carbonneil from the Ministry of Health published a letter in Value in Health in response to the article "New French Coverage with Evidence Development for Innovative Medical Devices: Improvements and Unresolved Issues" published in January 2016. Dr Carbonneil offers an interesting insights into background, rationale and direction of development of this important coverage with evidence development program for medical devices, in-vitro diagnostics and medical procedures in France.
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