Dr. Michael Jaff is chief medical officer and VP of the Boston Scientific Peripheral Interventions business. [Photo courtesy of Boston Scientific]
Real-world evidence (RWE) is a transformational concept for medical device design and engineering, says Dr. Michael Jaff, the chief medical officer and VP of the Boston Scientific Peripheral Interventions business.“Every really great technological advancement in the vascular space has come from a physician’s recognition that they would like to be able to do something safely and effectively for their patients, but the technology does not exist,” Jaff said in an interview with Medical Design & Outsourcing. “They find their way to an engineer, someone really smart takes that concept builds a prototype — off to the races. And it has time and time again transformed the way patients can be cared for.”
RWE leverages modern data coll…