The Role of Massive Databases in the Post-market Clinical Follow-up
of Medical Devices
Marion Burland
1
and Thierry Chevallier
2,3,4
1
Department of Quality, Regulatory and Clinical Affairs, DEDIENNE Santé, Le Mas des Cavaliers,
217 rue Charles Nungesser, 34130 Mauguio, France
2
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Public Health and Innovation in Methodology (BESPIM),
CHU Nîmes, Place du Pr. Robert Debré, 30029 Nîmes, France
3
UMR 1302, Institute Desbrest of Epidemiology and Public Health, INSERM, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France
4
Tech4Health-FCRIN, France
Keywords: Massive Database, Real Life Study, Post-Market Clinical Follow up, Medical Device.
Abstract: With the application of new European regulations on medical devices in May 2021, the requirements for
clinical evaluation have been strongly reinforced. Post-marketing clinical follow-up is now a key activity for
manufacturers to keep their medical devices on the market. The use of material-epidemiology studies and
real-life databases has multiple strengths and advantages. However, the weaknesses and limitations identified
do not yet allow manufacturers (especially small and medium-sized companies) to fully utilize these tools for
post-market clinical follow-up. Yet certain technological and regulatory developments already implemented,
and to be implemented over time, suggest that these tools could play a crucial role in the clinical monitoring
of medical devices in the future. In order to better define the future use of real-life data in post-market clinical
follow-up activities, a comprehensive update of technological and regulatory surveillance is still required.
1 INTRODUCTION
Regulation (EU) 2017/745 on medical devices (other
than in vitro diagnostic medical devices) has been in
force since May 26, 2021 in all member states of the
European Union. It was adopted to establish a
rigorous, transparent, predictable and sustainable
regulatory framework for medical devices. This
framework must guarantee a high level of safety and
health protection while promoting innovation
(European_Parliament_and_European_Council, 2017).
Regulation (EU) 2017/745 constitutes a complete
overhaul of the regulations governing the rules for
placing medical devices on the market, making them
available and putting them into service. Adopting
these changes represents a real challenge for the
different protagonists of the sector, particularly for
manufacturers. The dimensioning of the clinical
evaluation and the obligation for the manufacturer to
ensure a post-market clinical follow-up integrated
into its post-market surveillance plan are among the
major changes brought by the new regulation.
(Nicolas Martelli, 2019; Beata Wilkinson, 2019; Alan
G. Fraser, 2020).
There are various methods to support post-market
clinical follow-up. However, some methods do not
always cover all the objectives of these activities. The
use of real-life data is therefore essential for the
clinical evaluation of medical devices.
Here again, various strategies for the use of real-
life data are available to medical device
manufacturers: while the implementation of clinical
investigations is one of the most suitable means of
generating clinical data to address targeted issues, the
multiplication of data warehouses and the use of the
latter could also make it possible to achieve these
objectives without necessarily involving human
beings.
The reflection carried out within the framework of
this work concerns the following issues: "What is the
current position of material-epidemiology and more
particularly of massive databases in the post-
marketing clinical follow-up of medical devices?"
and "What are the prospects of using these tools in
this field of activity?"
Burland, M. and Chevallier, T.
The Role of Massive Databases in the Post-market Clinical Follow-up of Medical Devices.
DOI: 10.5220/0010952600003123
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2 POST-MARKET CLINICAL
FOLLOW-UP
According to Annex XIV, Part B, Paragraph 5
of Regulation (EU) 2017/745, post-marketing
clinical follow-up "shall be understood as a
continuous process that updates the clinical
evaluation" and "shall be addressed in the
manufacturer’s post-market clinical plan"
(European_Parliament_and_European_Council,
2017). The methods and measures used in post-
market clinical follow-up activities are documented
in a post-market clinical follow-up plan.
Post-market clinical follow-up activities
"proactively collect and evaluate clinical data from
the use in or on humans of a CE marked medical
device, placed on the market or put into service within
its intended purpose" (MDCG, MDCG 2020-7- Post-
market clinical follow-up (PMCF) Plan Template,
2020). The results of these activities should help to
achieve the following objectives:
i) confirm the safety and performance of the
medical device throughout its intended
lifetime and cover the limitations identified in
the clinical evaluation report;
ii) detect unknown adverse effects, monitor
them, and identify possible contraindications;
iii) identify and analyze emerging risks based on
the evidence;
iv) ensure the acceptability of the benefit/risk
ratio;
v) identify any possible misuse or off-label use of
the medical device
(Josep Pane, 2018; https://www.qualitiso.com/scac-
suivi-clinique-apres-commercialisation, 2021).
The limits of clinical evaluation can only be
identified when the context of the medical device’s
clinical use and its associated performances have
been precisely identified. Indeed, identifying the
limitations corresponds to an analysis of the
sufficiency of clinical evidence performed through
clinical evaluation. Upon conclusion of the clinical
evaluation report, the manufacturer should be able to
answer the following questions:
i) Are there any unsubstantiated or partially
unsubstantiated claims?
ii) Is the benefit/risk ratio acceptable over the
lifetime of the medical device?
iii) What are the complications and other residual
risks associated with the use of the medical
device?
The implementation of post-marketing
surveillance activities and more particularly post-
marketing clinical follow-up activities depends on the
answers to these questions and must make it possible,
in the more or less long term, to cover the limits
identified, otherwise the CE marking of the medical
device could be jeopardized.
There are several ways of conducting post-market
clinical follow-up activities. General methods and
procedures (analysis of the scientific literature,
feedback from congresses, etc.) have the advantage of
being economical for the manufacturer, but generally
do not make it possible to overcome all the limitations
identified. Implementing specific methods and
procedures for each medical device is therefore very
often necessary to compensate for the lack of clinical
evidence. Each method has its own advantages and
disadvantages. This makes the post-market clinical
follow-up strategy and planning even more complex.
3 REAL-LIFE DATA FOR
POST-MARKET CLINICAL
FOLLOW-UP
Material-epidemiology can be defined as follows:
"like pharmacoepidemiology, as a discipline that
applies epidemiological methods and/or reasoning
to evaluate, generally on large populations and
over long periods of time, the effectiveness, risk
and use of medical devices in real life"
(Equipe_pédagogique_DU, 2020-2021). Material-
epidemiological studies are observational studies that
make it possible to approach the reality in the field
without disrupting the usual behaviors of prescribing,
fitting and using the medical device by collecting
real-life data. They can be prospective, retrospective
or ambispective.
The collection of real-life data and the use of
massive databases are now recognized in the
European regulation on medical devices just as in
Article 108 of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 "The
Commission and the Member States shall take all
appropriate measures to encourage the establishment
of registers and databanks for specific types of
devices setting common principles to collec
comparable information. Such registers and
databanks shall contribute to the independent
evaluation of the long-term safety and performance
of devices, or the traceability of implantable
devices, or all of such characteristics."
(European_Parliament_and_European_Council, 2017).
This therefore suggests an acceleration in the use of
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this type of study in the clinical follow-up activities
of medical devices.
3.1 Real Life Data Warehouses
Bégaud et al. define "real-life data," as "data that are
without intervention in the usual patient management
arrangements and are not collected in an
experimental context (which, notably, is the case with
randomized controlled trials), but which are
generated during the routine care of a patient, and
which therefore reflect a priori current practice. Such
data can come from multiple sources : they can be
extracted from computerized patient records, or
constitute a by-product of the information used for
healthcare reimbursement; they can be collected
specifically [...], or to constitute registries or cohorts,
or more punctually as part of ad hoc studies; they can
also come from the web, social networks, connected
objects, etc." This definition is included in the more
general definition of "health data" proposed in
Article 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR) and supplemented in Recital 35 of the GDPR
(Ministère_des_affaires_sociales_et_de_la_santé,
2016; Bernard Bégaud, 2017;
Club_de_la_Sécurité_de_l'information_Français,
2019).
As a result, there are a multitude of data sources
available to provide insight into questions related to
the efficacy, safety, and use of medical devices.
To illustrate the wide variability of real-life data
sources and processing possibilities, two typologies
of real-life data repositories that can be used in
manufacturers' post-market clinical follow-up
strategy are presented below. It should be noted that
these examples are not intended to be an exhaustive
presentation of all the solutions available to
manufacturers.
3.1.1 Practice Registries
Practice registers are integrated with the aim of
evaluating, monitoring and improving practices.
They are databases made up of standardized data
(specifically entered to feed the registry), resulting
from professional practices, most often relating to a
specific theme. The collection and analysis of these
data are widespread within professional
organizations, learned societies or networks. The
setting up of a practices register is orchestrated by a
professional structure made up of peers who run the
register and are responsible for:
i) the theme of the register;
ii) the design of the register (this includes
compliance with the regulations applicable to
the collection and processing of the data
collected and guarantees of confidentiality of
the data relating to the patients and health
professionals involved);
iii) the quality of the data collected and the
methodology for entering the data;
iv) analysing and exploiting the data collected
(CNIL; HAS, 2014;
Group_IMDRF_Patient_Registries_Working, 2016).
Certain fields, such as thoracic and vascular surgery,
orthopaedics and interventional radiology, are among
those for which practice registers are frequently
implemented (CHRU_Tours, 2021; Besse, 2020;
Berghmans, 2020). However, as long as they comply
with the regulations and methodology described
above, these tools can be deployed in many fields of
application, with the operation and constraints
specific to each register.
Exploiting the real-life data provided by practice
registries is part of the routine activities carried out by
manufacturers in the context of their post-market
clinical follow-up activities. Indeed, the periodic
reports published within the framework of the
bibliographic monitoring carried out by
manufacturers, are a means of updating the state of
knowledge on medical devices and the pathologies
under evaluation. They generally feed the state of the
art with, for example, data relative to the clinical
conditions of use of medical devices (target
population, indications, type of medical device or
assembly preferred, etc.). In addition, some practice
registries now offer services that allow a
manufacturer to access aggregate data analysis
reports for medical devices for which it is the legal
manufacturer. That way, the manufacturer can use
practice registry data as a source of clinical data
specific to its medical devices.
However, the independent and often voluntary
nature of this type of approach does not always allow
for comparability of data between different registries
(items filled in, methods of inclusion, granularity of
information provided not always sufficient for the
manufacturer to accurately identify the medical
device used, etc). In addition, the data format and
access restrictions generally do not allow the
manufacturer to remove all uncertainties regarding
the medical device of interest (aggregated data,
access to manufacturer data only). Finally, the reports
submitted reflect the results of device use as of the
date of the report. This limits longitudinal follow-up.
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3.1.2 Health Data Warehouses
The main purpose of health data warehouses is to
concentrate and guarantee long-term access to
existing massive data relating to the medical care of
patients, socio-demographic data, data from previous
research, practice registers, etc. These data are
exploited for research, studies or evaluations in the
field of health. Massive data warehouses often make
it possible to bring together data initially stored in
different heterogeneous databases. Centralizing this
information helps to:
i) consolidate it,
ii) guarantee its coherence and quality,
iii) consult it in a transversal way,
iv) identify it and also
v) use it more easily by quickly constituting
cohorts.
Unlike a targeted research project, study or
evaluation (the aim of which is to respond to a
specific objective limited in time), a health data
warehouse corresponds to the constitution of a large
database for which, in the long term, the data
controller can envisage processing the data in several
ways within the framework of different research
projects. However, it should be noted that health data
warehouses can only be created for the sake of public
interest (CNIL; https://www.cnil.fr/professionnel,
2021; https://www.has-sante.fr/, 2021).
As examples,
i) The National Health Data System, is a large-
scale real-life data warehouse implemented to
analyze and improve population health
(SNDS) (https://www.snds.gouv.
fr/SNDS/Accueil, 2021);
ii) The implementation of hospital warehouses is
increasingly frequent in order to concentrate,
in a single data warehouse, a set of real-life
data collected over a limited territory;
iii) The constitution of personal data warehouses
for the purposes of research, study or
evaluation in the health field by specialized
companies is also frequent.
Depending on the specificities of each data
warehouse, access (direct or indirect) to
manufacturers of medical devices is not always
allowed. However, when this is possible, these tools
offer a multitude of processing possibilities within the
limits of each health data warehouse (data
compartmentalized within the health data warehouse,
often significant and uncontrolled implementation
time, inconsistency of data in case of absence of
consolidation and monitoring process, relatively high
cost of data exploitation for manufacturers, etc).
3.2 Current Strengths and Limitations
of using Real-Life Data in the
Activities of Post-market Clinical
Follow-up
The use of massive databases on real-life data for
post-marketing studies appears to be a solution that
has the advantages over clinical investigations of
consuming fewer financial and human resources,
being implementating quickly, and having access to
large panels.
However, due to limitations in the use of these
data identified for medical device manufacturers; the
place of real-life data in post-market clinical follow-
up activities is not always optimized. Among the
main weaknesses of these tools we may note:
i) The compartmentalization within the
framework of the health data warehouse and
the independence of these approaches, which
do not always provide answers to the
deficiencies identified in the clinical
evaluation files;
ii) The very restricted and limited access to
medical device manufacturers;
iii) The operating cost of these tools (depending
on the methods of accessing the data in each
data warehouse), which remains relatively
high despite their economic nature;
iv) The difficulty of exploiting and comparing
data processing due to the diversity of data
sources, the cross-referencing of structured
and unstructured data, and the non-
standardization of certain data such as the
designation of medical devices (reduced
interoperability).
3.3 Prospects of using Real-Life Data
in Post-market Clinical Follow-up
In order to consider the prospects of using real-life
data warehouses and the future role of these tools in
the context of post-marketing clinical follow-up
activities, a bibliographic research was conducted.
This consisted of identifying, among the
technological, organizational and regulatory
developments identified in the literature, various
avenues for overcoming the limitations of use
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previously identified. It should be noted that the
possibilities of improvement presented in this section
are not intended to be exhaustive.
3.3.1 The Health Data Hub: A Single
Platform to Facilitate Access to Data
from Various Sources
The Health Data Hub was officially created on a
national scale, by the law of July 24, 2019 on the
organization and transformation of the healthcare
system. Its creation is one of the highlights of the
French strategy for artificial intelligence. The Health
Data Hub aims to create a dynamic ecosystem for the
innovative exploitation of health data. The objective
of this project is to facilitate the sharing of and access
to health data from a wide variety of sources by
creating a unique patform to promote research. This
platform must be able to facilitate the reconciliation
of health data from various sources (National Health
Data System, various real-life data warehouses,
registries, cohorts, learned societies with clinical
databases including connected objects, health
surveys, prevention data, school medicine,
occupational medicine, etc.) and their exploitation
from a regulatory and technical viewpoint. It must act
as a trusted third party between data producers and
users and be accompanied by a service offer that
includes support procedures, matching operations
between datasets, support for data collection and
consolidation, and the provision of human and
technical resources to exploit them (Villani, 2018;
Marc Cuggia, 2019; Chloé Picavez, 2019).
In light of these ambitions, the Health Data Hub
should become a true enabler for the use of real-life
data by medical device manufacturers.
3.3.2 UDI: Structuration and
Standardisation of Medical Device
Identification
Following the example of the FDA, which has made
the Unique Device Identifier (UDI) mandatory since
2013, Regulation (EU) 2017/745 now requires the
implementation of the UDI for all devices governed
by European regulations (except for custom-made
medical devices and devices under investigation) in
order to improve patient safety and optimize their
care pathway. The unique identification number for
medical devices is an alphanumeric code containing
standardized information to identify each medical
device placed on the market (with a part related to the
identification of the manufacturer and the model of
the medical device (identical for all medical devices
with a common designation:UDI-DI) and a variable
part related to the production unit of the medical
device (UDI-PI)). In order to ensure traceability of
medical devices, the unique identification numbers
are recorded and stored in a common European
database accessible to all member states: EUDAMED
(European database on medical devices) (Elisabetta
Bianchini, 2019; Dorothée Camus, 2019).
With the standardization of medical device
identification, UDI presents a real opportunity for the
use of real-life data warehouses by medical device
manufacturers.
3.3.3 Digitization of Patient Monitoring for
the Benefit of Patient Intervention in
Evaluating the Quality of Care
The development of online platforms is booming.
They now involve the patient, who must enter
information related to his or her quality of life or more
specific dimensions such as physical functioning,
satisfaction, the relationship with care providers, etc.
This evolution is part of the process of continuous
improvement of practices. Indeed, it is becoming
essential for the patient to participate in the evaluation
of the quality of care in real life. By using PROMs
(Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures) and PREMs
(Patient-Reported Experience Measures), patients
can describe their feelings and their experience in real
time and in detail and prevent adverse events from
occurring (Lisa S. Rotenstein, 2017; Rie Fujisawa,
2018).
The use of these new sources of real-life data is a
real opportunity for medical device manufacturers,
healthcare professionals and patients. Indeed, the
exchange of information should make it possible to
improve the manufacturer-practitioner-patient
relationship and to adapt the therapeutic strategy in an
individualized manner and/or on a global scale.
3.3.4 Portable Devices for Monitoring the
Health and Fitness of Subjects
The use of portable medical devices is now an integral
part of the monitoring and treatment of certain
chronic diseases such as diabetes or certain cardiac
pathologies. The use of portable fitness-tracking
devices is also becoming more common. For
example, consumers are equipping themselves with
connected scales or watches in an effort to improve
their health and fitness. Wearable devices that include
connected bracelets and watches, sensors or any other
medical device collect information through consumer
and patient declarations and also passively. This
passive, automated collection of information from
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sensors is done directly with interfaces connected to
databases that concentrate information from various
sources and of various types (Catherine Dinh-Le,
2019).
The data-processing possibilities offered by the
use of portable devices for health and fitness
monitoring are numerous. So exploiting these new
data sources could become widespread for the
evaluation of the performance and safety of medical
devices. This is a real opportunity for medical device
manufacturers. However, the acceptance of these
tools by patients, healthcare professionals and
competent authorities; the respect of regulations for
data access and exploitation (ethical, legal, etc.); the
standardization, processing and development of
predictive analysis models for the exploitation of data
are still obstacles to the democratization of the use of
these tools.
4 CONCLUSION
The entry into force of the new medical device
regulations has required manufacturers to review
their clinical evaluation processes. Among the major
changes brought about by the overhaul of the
European medical device regulatory framework are
the dimensioning of clinical evaluation, requirements
for post-market surveillance and post-market clinical
follow-up. Post-market clinical follow-up is now a
key activity for manufacturers to keep their medical
devices on the market.
Recognized in European regulations for the first
time, the collection of real-life data and the use of
massive databases are methodologies of interest for
post-market clinical follow-up activities. Although
the use of these tools has multiple strengths and
benefits, the associated weaknesses and limitations do
not yet allow medical device manufacturers to fully
exploit them. Consequently, material-epidemiology
studies and massive databases of real-life data are
currently only complementary to other post-market
clinical follow-up activities because they rarely meet
all the targeted objectives.
In view of the multiplicity of solutions developed
or being developed to combine data sources, facilitate
access to medical device manufacturers, standardize
data and feed data warehouses with new sources of
information, the use of real-life data warehouses is
expected to soon become a key part of post-market
clinical follow-up activities.
In order to better define the future role of these
tools in the clinical evaluation of medical devices, an
update of the technological and regulatory
surveillance should be considered in order to
exhaustively identify developments to facilitate their
use. The obstacles to the use of real-life massive
databases in post-marketing clinical follow-up
activities must also be identified. The ethical aspects
(pseudonymized and anonymized data) of massive
databases, wich are a major topic, should be
addressed in this update.
Lastly, this article is based on a purely industrial
vision (small to medium-sized companies responsible
for the marketing of medical devices). One way of
working would be to widen this reflection to a more
global vision including the viewpoints of the different
actors involved in material-epidemiology studies and
the exploitation of real-life data.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We would like to thank the entire teaching staff of the
University Diploma in “Methodology in the clinical
evaluation of medical devices” for their continued
pedagogical support in the writing of this work.
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