In Georgia, doctors will be required to disclose information about gifts received from pharmaceutical companies if an analogue of the American law is passed Physician Payments Sunshine Act.
What is the Physician Payments Sunshine Act?
Этот закон в США обязывает фармацевтические компании сообщать о своих финансовых взаимоотношениях с медицинскими работниками, а сами врачи должны раскрывать информацию о полученных от компаний “щедрых подарках”.
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Georgian Health Minister, Zurab Azarashvili, emphasized the importance of transparency in the business of pharmaceutical companies. If a similar law is adopted in Georgia, information about the financial relations of doctors with pharmaceutical companies will be publicly available, stored in an open database, and each patient will be able to check the compliance of this information when prescribing a doctor.
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