Brookings Lays Out Seven-Year Plan To Utilize Medical Device Postmarket Surveillance System

A new Brookings Institution report sets out a seven-year plan for stakeholders to fully adopt and implement an effective postmarket surveillance system for medical devices (MDS). FDA first proposed the MDS in 2012 and established a planning board to come up with the report for how to create and implement it. The system is intended to provide more and better information on the benefits and risks of medical devices in order to detect any problems or adverse events associated with...