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President Calls For Almost $100M More In Funding For FDA Device Activities In 2020

 
• By Sue Darcey

The current administration would use an additional $98m in congressional budget authority in the 2020 fiscal year for FDA’s medical device efforts to modernize its regulatory approach for technology development, to enable device safety issues to be monitored more closely, and to advance new approaches for regulating digital health technologies and breakthrough devices.

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The president has called for $98m more to support a planned push in 2020 by US FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health to transform medical device safety, cybersecurity, review and innovation initiatives that started in 2018 and 2019.

As pointed out by the Trump administration in its 2020 HHS Budget In Brief Document, the President is proposing $55m for an initiative to build an integrated knowledge management...

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