How was 2024 for the Life Sciences and Healthcare sector and what to expect in 2025? Our partners and lawyers analyze, in exclusive materials, the advances of the last year and the impacts on the market for this year.
According to our experts, 2024 was marked by significant advances and the consolidation of crucial themes for healthcare. 2025 promises to be a decisive year, with strategic debates and important definitions that can transform the sector. Administrative, legislative and judicial movements should gain prominence, directly influencing market dynamics.
Check out the complete materials with the main events in the sector in 2024 and the outlook for 2025:
Top Life Sciences Topics in 2024
- New PDP framework and PDIL framework;
- New legal and regulatory framework for clinical research;
- Supply of drugs not incorporated into the SUS;
- Regulatory reliance between Anvisa and foreign authorities;
- The normative deadlock of digital package insert regulation;
- Transparency in the relationship between industry and physicians;
- Food labeling regulations;
- Regulation of the Agricultural Self-Control Law;
- New legal framework for pesticides.
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Life Sciences Trends for 2025
- Sanction of the bio-inputs law;
- Cannabis market awaits regulation for hemp cultivation;
- Anvisa must continue with the sandbox to boost innovation;
- Progress of regulations on the use of AI and the impacts on health;
- New debate of Anvisa’s competence to ban additives in smoking products;
- CMED – review of drug pricing regulations;
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Life Sciences Market Thermometer for 2025
Opportunities
- Impacts of the tax reform on the health sector;
- Signing of Terms of Commitment for the registration or post-registration of drugs and biological products;
- Cannabis in the pet market.
Points of attention
- Presidential veto on the Clinical Research Law (Law No. 14,874/2024);
- Technical assistance for medical equipment;
- Changes in Anvisa’s Presidency and Board of Directors.
Top Healthcare Topics in 2024
- National Minimum Wage Floor for Nursing and other healthcare Professions;
- Definition of the incorporation of advanced therapy products into the ANS List;
- New legal and regulatory framework for clinical research;
- Flexibility in the allocation of collateral assets by health maintenance organizations;
- Updated rules for changing the hospital network.
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Healthcare Trends for 2025
- Reformulation of outpatient health plan rules;
- Progress on AI regulation and its impacts on healthcare;
- ANS’ Regulatory Sandbox;
- Discount cards;
- Improvement of the pricing and readjustment policy of health plans;
- New rules for payment default notifications.
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Healthcare Market Thermometer for 2025
Opportunities
- Regulations for self-management entities;
- Impacts of the tax reform on health plan services;
- ANPD Regulatory Agency and health data;
- Open Health and health data interoperability.
Points of attention
- Presidential veto on the Clinical Research Law (Law No. 14,874/2024);
- Change in ANS’ Presidency;
- Changes in Anvisa’s Presidency and Board of Directors;
- Health Plans Bill of Law (Bill of Law No. 7,419/2006);
- Fraud in health plans;
- Co-payment in collective corporate health plans;
- CPI and cancellation of health plans;
- Single Agency and incorporation of health technologies into ANS List.
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