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This year's top congressional medical technology priorities

Author(s)Todd Shryock
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AdvaMed, the Advanced Medical Technology Association, the trade group for medical device manufacturers, released a list of priorities for Congress. Here are some of the key objectives.

Advamed, the Advanced Medical Technology Association, the trade group for medical device manufacturers, released a list of priorities for the 119th Congress.

The goal of the organization is to make the regulation of medical technology more efficient, more transparent, and more predictable, so that U.S. medtech innovators remain on the leading edge of medical discovery.
 
Here are some the key objectives outlined by Advamed (for the full list, click here):


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