NESTcc announces three new opportunities for engagement and launches new website.

Today, NESTcc announced three open opportunities for engagement via the newly-launched www.nestcc.org. The first opportunity—open to medical device manufacturers—is a Call for Concepts for Real-World Evidence (RWE) test-cases to better understand the opportunities and barriers associated with building and maintaining a NESTcc data partner network. The test-case concepts are due January 17, 2018. The next […]

Initial Demonstration Projects Address Key Use Cases for the NESTcc

The NESTcc has selected the first-round of Demonstration Projects that address several key use-cases to demonstrate the feasibility and value of generating Real World Evidence for clinical studies across the Total Product Life Cycle.   Selected NESTcc Demonstration Projects  The selected Demonstration Projects test two approaches to leveraging Real-World Data and generating Real-World Evidence: The first project is […]

Board of Directors has established the inaugural Governing Committee

The Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC) Board of Directors has established the inaugural Governing Committee for the National Evaluation System for health Technology Coordinating Center (NESTcc). The Governing Committee will recommend the strategic direction for NEST. Its members represent NEST’s diverse stakeholders, including patients, clinicians, medical device industry, regulators, health systems, and payers. Read the […]

NEST Coordinating Center (NESTcc) will begin identifying Demonstration Projects

The NEST Coordinating Center (NESTcc) will begin identifying Demonstration Projects in the Summer of 2017. NESTcc hopes to collaborate closely with projects that are developing, verifying and operationalizing methods of evidence generation and data use, demonstrating scalability across healthcare systems, device types and manufacturers, and that will help inform NESTcc’s strategy as it builds out […]

FDA Commissioner Gottlieb, M.D. notes the important role of NESTcc

FDA Commissioner Gottlieb, M.D. notes the important role of NEST to support the Agency’s new Digital Health Innovation Plan that focused on fostering innovation at the intersection of medicine and digital health technology. Click here to read the Commissioner’s full comments on the FDA Voice blog.