Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Nov 2017
EMA to work with stakeholders to improve the product information for EU medicines
15 November 2017 - Stakeholder feedback sought on ongoing electronic initiatives
The EMA has published an action plan to improve the product information (PI) for EU medicines, an information package for patients and healthcare professionals that accompanies every single medicine authorised in the EU and explains how it should be used and prescribed. This action plan follows a report published by the European Commission in March 2017 which concluded that despite ongoing efforts to make the PI easy to read and useful, there is a need to improve how information on medicines is conveyed to patients and healthcare professionals.
One of the key areas of this plan is to explore how electronic or digital means can be used to improve accessibility to medicines’ information by patients and healthcare professionals.
