FDA recommends that partnerships should be used to better monitor medical device performance once released. The article states knee replacements as an example of an area that uses multiple different medical devices, yet the performance information has not been efficiently tracked in a universal location for physician recommendations. Dr. Mitchell Krucoff of Duke University and the Duke Clinical Research Institute states that “by building on previous efforts and pooling or knowledge and experiences, we’ve been able to describe a framework for a national system that can help us understand how medical devices perform in real-world situations, while at the same time speeding up access to safe and effective technologies for the patients who need them.”
For more information on how these partnerships can help the medical device industry, read the full article on the Weill Cornell Medical College website.