09 Sep, 2024 Life Sciences News in Italy: August 2024 By DLA Piper Life Sciences Regulatory AIFA updates Guidelines for the classification and conduct of observational studies on medicines On 20 August 2024, the...
25 Oct, 2023 Artificial Intelligence and healthcare: the Italian DPA adopts a decalogue on GDPR compliance of national healthcare services using AI By Cristina Criscuoli The use of artificial intelligence (‘AI’) systems in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors is growing exponentially, with...
17 Apr, 2023 Plausibility of inventions: the decision of the EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal in G 2/21 By Massimiliano Tiberio Introduction On March 23rd, 2023, the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO issued the long-awaited decision concerning the concept of...
15 Nov, 2022 Clinical Trials and Privacy Matters: A Cross-border Guide By Marco de Morpurgo This week our Life Sciences team published the first edition of its Cross-border Guide to Clinical Trials and Privacy. The Guide will...
03 Aug, 2022 China's emerging data protection laws bring challenges for conducting investigations in China By Sammy Fang Han Liang In recent years, China has introduced a number of major data protection laws, including the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL)...
14 Jul, 2022 UK: New National Strategy for Health Data By James Clark The UK’s Department for Health and Social Care (“DHSC”) has published a major strategy document (‘Data saves lives: reshaping health and...
31 May, 2022 The European Health Data Space – 5 Things You Need to Know By James Clark What is the European Health Data Space? On 3 May 2022, the EU Commission published a draft Regulation on the European Health Data Space...
05 Apr, 2022 The Spanish authorities designate an independent supervisory body to ensure compliance with the clinical trials Code of Conduct. By Elisa Lorenzo After the publication of the Code of conduct regulating the processing of personal data in the field of clinical trials and other...
02 Mar, 2022 Spain publishes the first code of conduct on the processing of personal data on clinical trials By Elisa Lorenzo Paula Gonzalez de Castejón Llano-Ponte The Spanish Data Protection Commissioner (“AEPD”) has recently approved the “Code of conduct regulating the processing of personal data...
25 Feb, 2021 Interim EDPB guidance on the application of GDPR to health research By James Clark In response to a set of questions from the European Commission, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) has published some high level...