In its effort to improve tracking of medical device performance, the Food & Drug Administration’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health will hold a workshop at the end of April to engage academics in developing analytical tools for things like comparative effectiveness research.
The all day workshop, “Medical Device Epidemiology Network” or MDEpiNet, is slated for April 30 at the FDA’s White Oak campus in Silver Spring, Md.
The panel will consist of FDA officials and academic researchers with “expertise in epidemiology and health services research on issues related to the methodology for studying medical device performance,” according to the agency.
The federal watchdog is looking to establish a network of academic researchers who will work with its own experts to identify evidence gaps and develop data sets for use in analytic studies and comparative effectiveness research on medical devices.
Some of the topics to be addressed at the meeting include:
- Gaps and challenges in medical device outcomes;
- The creation of the Medical Device Epidemiology Network infrastructure;
- Opportunities for medical device epidemiologic research and partnerships between CDRH and academia.
Registration for the event is open until April 19.
