The crowd, the cloud and improving the future of medical device innovation

摘要: Barriers and delays to medical device innovation are often solely attributable the regulatory environment instead of both current state practices product development processes in industry. Increasing pace while reducing costs requires creation a new approach that fits established corporations as well entrepreneurial start-ups. In this commentary we advance concept platforms facilitate ideation space. Such could also allow full health benefits from individual devices be reaped, by overcoming interoperability concerns through simulation credentialing. Given dramatic success, such non-traditional business models for may potential solutions industry, users regulators.