Research, Development and Innovation Activity in Medical Devices

MINISTRY OF HEALTH OF BRAZIL SECRETARIAT OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND STRATEGIC INPUTS DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AND INNOVATION IN HEALTH GENERAL COORDINATION OF MEDICAL DEVICES

Brazilian Industrial and Innovation Complex in Health: : G.03 Research, Development and Innovation Activity in Medical Devices

ANTONINO, P. H. D.; REZENDE, K. S.; BISINOTI, N. V. M.; OLIVEIRA, E. J. V.; PAIVA, L. B.; GADELHA, C. A.G. e-mail: [email protected]

INTRODUCTION Line 3 : Medical electrical equipment and dental Key equipment in the NHS: intensive care, hemodialysis and radiotherapy; Dedicated integrated circuits and/or embedded software for medical electrical equipment. Brazil, despite having a population of 200 million, has an universal and free System of Public Health (SUS) that assists at least 100 million. This has been a great challenge, especially Line 4 : Information and Communication Technologies for Health Devices and systems for intelligent operating rooms, including the distance operated, and because of the dependence on external technologies that increases every year. The defcit remote patient monitoring; in the balances of trade is US$ 4.5 billion in the sector of medical devices and the defcit Communication systems specifc or adapted for portability and transmission of clinical and/or increases in direct proportion to the increase in access to new technologies. In 2011 alone, laboratory/image (telemedicine) . for instance, SUS provided with over 740 million exams, 2.4 million chemotherapy treatments, and 4 million surgeries to Brazilian consumers. DISCUSSION

The Brazilian segment of medical devices counts with a wide structure for research and Health demands 9% of Brazil’s GDP, 10% of the country’s qualified work force, 12 million direct development activities spread over diﬀerent states across the country. Local infrastructure and indirect jobs and 30% of the national efforts in research and development. It is on this sector relies on biomedical engineering professionals with high skills and expertise, responsible, then, for a strategic role in the fostering of innovation, as a common ground academic institutions and several companies to provide a sustainable development between knowledge frontier and mass consumption. Investments in innovation, however, are environment of the industrial complex and innovation in health. In Brazil, over the past few still small in private initiatives and remain very restricted to the Government that has a crucial years, the way the medical devices industry assesses innovation and new technology has part as inducer of the National System of Innovation. changed. In the last 02 years only, projects supported directly by the Ministry of Health The relative importance of the State is enhanced also because of the external vulnerability summed up over US$ 100 million. expressed by increasingly larger deficits in the balances of trade regarding health, mainly Recently, the government launched a federal plan of innovation in health, Inova Saúde caused by the need to access new technologies which are not available nationally. (Innovate Health), in partnership with the Ministry of Health. This is part of a bigger plan, Inova Empresa (Innovate Enterprise), which aims to boost the production and CONCLUSION competitiveness in Brazilian Industry through technological innovation. The plan will last until 2017 and will invest almost US$ 1 billion into health technologies. The sector of Federal investments, either directly made by the Ministry of Health, or together with its medical device will receive 32% of the total investments. It is vital, therefore, to support fnancing partners, are an expression of the understanding that health, more than a right partners in the National System of Innovation in their eﬀorts to take advantage of the guaranteed by the Federal Constitution and one of the countries biggest challenges, is also, in investments, and thus avoid a technology gap. itself, a path of opportunities to induce development as a whole and innovation in particular. As a consequence of being a pacifc multiethnic developing country with a recent history free of regional threats, Brazil has been able to use resources in initiatives with direct social impact. Our public healthcare system, free and universal, is the only one in the world to assist over 100 million users. This conditions enables local production and innovation, turning the Brazilian more dynamic. There is a conscious approach to handicaps such as those that still exist in health and also other areas, in order to use them as opportunities not only to catchup with international benchmarks, but to leap forward while developing a culture of investment in strategic sectors and creating an endogenous cycle of innovation.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

IMPORT EXPORT BALANCE Surce: DECIIS/SCTIE/MS, Data SECEX/MDIC.

METHOD

The most recent initiative to address this circumstance, the Inova Health Plan, part of the larger Inova Enterprise, aims at coordinating actions to promote innovation and improving the integration of support tools provided by the National Bank of Economic and Social Development (BNDES), the Financer of Studies and Projects (FINEP) and the Ministry of Health (MS), resulting in approximately US$ 350 million in resources available. However, it is important to highlight the sectors interest and dynamism expressed applications summing over US$ 500 billion. The plan’s immediate objectives are the following: Support the development and production of medical devices in Brazil; Support the development and mastery of priority technologies for health; Increase the competitiveness of Brazilian companies, and Expand people's access to goods and health services. The development and selection of business plans within the Inova Health will aim at supply REFERENCES chains linked to the four thematic lines below: Line 1: in vitro diagnostics and imaging [1] BRAZILIAN INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AND INNOVATION IN HEALTH: Reagents and equipment for the in vitro diagnostic point- of-care ; http://portal.saude.gov.br/portal/saude/Gestor/area.cfm?id_area=1504 Diagnostic imaging equipment using ultrasound technologies. ! [2] PLANO INOVA SAÚDE Line 2 : Implantable Devices AT FINEP: Implantable devices with bioabsorbable materials; http://www.finep.gov.br/pagina.asp?pag=programas_inovasaude#publico Implantable devices with embedded microelectronics . AT BNDES: http://www.bndes.gov.br/SiteBNDES/bndes/bndes_pt/Areas_de_Atuacao/Inovacao/ inovasaude.html