RWE in Japan: data governance arrangements

The Office of Health Economics (OHE; London, UK) has released a new consulting report evaluating the processes by which real-world data (RWD) are accessed, generated and used to produce real-world evidence (RWE) in Japan. Real world-data (RWD) and real-world evidence (RWE) are playing an increasingly key role in clinical studies and healthcare decision making; medical societies are incorporating the use of RWE into their guideline revisions to create more useful medical decision tools. This latest Office of Health Economics (OHE; London, UK) report evaluates RWD governance arrangements in Japan. It follows the release of two previous such reports — in...