PMDA's Vision for Horizon Scanning of Emerging Technologies Potentially Relevant to the Development of New Medical Products: The Regulatory Challenge

Abstract

A key goal of regulatory agencies for medical products is to make innovative products available to patients and the medical community in a timely manner in order to improve the quality of public health and health care. Thus, regulators must respond quickly to emerging technologies. It is a horizon scanning method, based on which the Japanese regulatory agency will have the expertise prior to review of forthcoming products of evolving technologies.