Medtech Standards & Ethics
Overview
At AdvaMed®, we lead the medical technology industry in shaping both standards and ethics that guide responsible innovation. Since 2000, we’ve worked to ensure that life-changing technologies are developed, tested, and delivered with the highest levels of safety, quality, and integrity.
Standards
Standards
As an ANSI-accredited Standards Development Organization, AdvaMed brings together stakeholders across the medtech ecosystem to create consensus-driven standards. These standards:
– Advance patient safety and product quality
– Streamline regulatory pathways
– Enable device and system interoperability
– Support innovation and global market access
Ethics
Ethics
The AdvaMed® Code of Ethics provides practical, clear guidance for ethical interactions between medtech companies and health care professionals. It covers areas such as:
– Consulting and collaboration
– Product training and education
– Charitable donations and grants
– Sponsorships and third-party programs
Available in multiple languages, the Code has shaped compliance practices worldwide — ensuring trust in medtech innovation.
Why It Matters
Together, standards and ethics form the backbone of trust in medtech. They:
- Protect patients by ensuring medical technologies are safe, effective, and used responsibly.
- Guide innovators with clear frameworks that reduce uncertainty and accelerate responsible innovation.
- Build confidence among health care professionals, patients, regulators, and investors that medtech companies act with integrity.
- Strengthen global alignment so technologies can reach more markets and more patients.
- Safeguard the industry’s reputation by proving that innovation and ethics go hand in hand.
With these commitments, AdvaMed ensures the medtech industry continues to advance life-changing technologies while upholding the highest standards of integrity worldwide.
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