MedPage Today November 15, 2017
Time to revolutionize clinical data gathering, ex-FDA Commissioner urges
ANAHEIM — Separating medical practice from research no longer makes sense, said Robert Califf, MD, calling on every clinician to become a clinical investigator.
“This is the most prestigious job,” said Califf, ex-FDA Commissioner and practicing cardiologist now working with Google’s biomedical research arm Verily, during his Laennec Clinician/Educator Lecture here at the American Heart Association’s annual meeting. “It’s incumbent on every practitioner to participate in the system and make it better.”
In fact, he said, “it may be good to change the word from ‘research’ to ‘learning,’ which is what it really is.”
Califf suggested that providers can put the constant generation of data from wearables and electronic devices...
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