ARTICLE SUMMARY:
Can real-world data initiatives provide timely, cost-effective answers to some of our pressing concerns about how devices are performing over time? Multiple public and private Big Data initiatives aiming to figure out how Big Data can shed light on the performance of medical devices in the real world, with the ultimate aim of improving this assessment process, are underway but too new to evaluate.
The availability of big datasets and pervasive electronic health records is a promising salve for sorely needed quantitative answers to some of the medical device industry’s pressing questions.
