Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by bh23ha 5673 days ago
Really? I've always found the number one barrier in medtech to be fact that the feds won't let you unleash cutting edge new medtech on humanity without a crushing time and money penalty to prove it is safe and worth it.

Just so people don't miss interpret what I'm saying: I do think we should try to prove medtech is safe and does something. But I think the quantity of proof we require slows down innovation tremendously. And the penalty we pay for bringing things YEARS to market later then we could have is human lives.