ARC initiatives

With the mission of promoting informed and collaborative dialogue across stakeholders supporting the development of consensus definitions and nomenclature for targeted areas of new medical device development, and to disseminate such definitions in the public domain, ARC facilitates the set-up of initiatives or focused project teams to address well defined areas of device development.

ARC endeavors to include high-level expertise from all stakeholders relevant to the specific device area of focus; conduct think tanks, teleconferences, and e-mail interactions, sufficient to develop consensus definitions; and coordinates and complete the process sufficiently to disseminate such definitions in the public domain through publications in the peer-reviewed literature. As of 2023, ARC completed 20 programs, including iterations within one topic, and has over a dozen of ongoing initiatives.