FDA Looks To Lead World In Post-Market Device Surveillance With Safety Plan, Investments

US FDA Nov. 20 announced plans for a broad series of updates to its Medical Device Safety Action Plan for the next several months, with the goal that FDA "is consistently first among the world’s regulatory agencies to identify and act upon safety signals related to medical devices.

FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb
Commissioner Scott Gottlieb suggests more updates are coming to the device post-market surveillance system, and to the 510(k) review program.

USFDA is implementing a vigilant post-market surveillance system by initiating new device monitoring steps starting now and through early 2019, to quickly identify new or increased safety concerns with medtech products, Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Nov. 20.

“After carefully considering public feedback, we’ll be announcing in a series of updates several important new actions that will help FDA continue to enhance our nationwide [medical device] post-market surveillance...

Up Next: 510(k)s

In conjunction with its safety action plan announcement, Gottlieb said that, next week, FDA will announce "additional actions aimed at fundamentally modernizing the process for medical device review,...

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