Pace of Innovation vs. Regulation: Combination Challenge

In 2002, the FDA established the Office of Combination Products (OCP) to help manage complicated jurisdictional issues in the regulatory review and approval of drug delivery devices and diagnostics growing in both number and complexity. “I can only imagine what the possibilities will be with respect to the use of things like artificial intelligence and smart devices as they pertain to the delivery of medical products going forward. I feel it’s going to go far beyond where we could have ever foreseen,” suggests Kim Quaintance-Lunn, Vice President and Head of US Regulatory Policy for Bayer, and a member of the program committee for DIA's Combination Products 2017 Conference, in this Global Forum podcast. “The challenge that comes with that is, of course, from a regulatory perspective, how do you regulate that? How do you get in front of an area that moves so quickly as to be hard to even predict?”