TCT 2016: Researchers Argue For More Medtech Data Sharing
Executive Summary
Device companies are not stepping up as much as they should be to make their raw trial data available for analysis by independent researchers, cardiologists said at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium.
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