Collaborative Communities

• NESTcc Collaborative Community – A Coordinating Center offering services that catalyze real-world evidence (RWE) generation for medical device and health technology research sponsors as well as Collaborative Community comprised of representatives from across the medical device ecosystem working together to develop thought leadership and coalesce diverse stakeholders to further innovation and understanding on initiatives of importance. 
• Case for Quality Collaborative Community – a unique opportunity for medical device stakeholders to work together to enhance device quality and patient safety.  This program allows the FDA to identify device manufacturers that consistently produce high-quality devices which enables the Agency to allocate its resources to assist other manufacturers with increasing their level of quality in devices. MDIC’s partnership enables the organization to help the FDA with recognizing and supporting practices that encourage consistent quality manufacturing.
• Pathology Innovation Collaborative Community – A regulatory science initiative that aims to facilitate innovations in pathology as well as advance safety and effectiveness evaluation, and to harmonize approaches to speed delivery to patients using collaborative, pre-competitive approaches.

Learn more about collaborative communities with FDA participation here.