Hello,

medical device fans! Social media is increasingly integrated into all aspects of our daily lives, even for many of you non-digital natives (myself included). In this issue, we look at how the medical device industry is beginning to utilise social media as a tool to monitor the safety of devices as part of post-market surveillance activities. Karelia Tecante, a post-market surveillance specialist, shares her insights into the use of these new tools and how social media listening could eventually become a standard source of adverse event reporting. I expect that some of you may soon be integrating the outcomes of social media listening into your clinical evaluation reports and post market clinical follow-up plans and reports.

Happy reading!

Kelly