When the pace of technology changes, validation must evolve too
By Gauri Navalkar Godse, CEO India, UE Lifesciences
Medicine has always been built on evidence, caution and rigorous validation. That should never change. What must change, however, is how quickly we are able to generate, evaluate and act upon evidence in an increasingly connected world.
There was a time when validating a new medical technology could take years; not necessarily because the technology itself required that amount of time to understand, but because collecting meaningful clinical data was slow, geographically fragmented and dependent on traditional research infrastructure.
That world has changed.
The internet, connected devices, digital health platforms, electronic medical records and increasingly sophisticated data analytics have fundamentally altered the speed at which evidence can be generated. A technology deployed across multiple centres can now generate thousands of observations in real-world settings, while clinicians can communicate almost instantaneously and patients can be followed longitudinally without the constraints that once accompanied...
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