A national medical device surveillance system is proposed

NEW DEVICE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM PROPOSED (Orthopedics This Week)
The health care arm of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. prepared a proposal for a national device surveillance system for medical devices. The purpose of the proposal is to do for devices what the FDA Sentinel system does in tracking drugs and vaccines. The Brookings Institution produced the report at the request of the Food and Drug Administration’s device-safety division.
One reason medical device surveillance has not already taken place, according to Joe Carlson writing in theMinneapolis Star Tribune, is that while...