Safety of medical technology - are we making data driven choices?
01 Oct 2024
Future Surgery Theatre 1
There are currently over 500 000 medical devices are registered in UK and EU with 270 000 medical technology companies most of which are SMEs. Multiple challenges exist in relation to lack of effective communication systems and lack of good quality studies at a time of increasing rate of innovation and technology advancements.
The data available on technologies in use is variable and not consistent. This is a multifactorial problem that results in a lack of effective methods of data collection on medical device performance with a resulting effect on patient and medical device safety and performance.