You shouldn’t need Barney the giant purple dinosaur to remind you of the playground mantra “sharing is caring,” but maybe the medical device industry needs to do some quick Netflix streaming of back episodes.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM), already working with more than a dozen drug makers, the FDA and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), wants to see a little more enthusiasm from the medical device community when it comes to data sharing in device clinical trials. To be fair, this requires a delicate balance: Everyone wants to advance the public health, but it’s not fair to expect a drug or device company to just give away all of its hard-earned, costly proprietary data, either.

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