Physician collaboration
Our guiding principles
Discover our guiding principles on physician collaboration, putting ethics and patient safety at the forefront.
Collaboration between doctors and the medical device industry must be based on solid, ethical principles to avoid the potential for conflicts of interest. These conflicts, both real and perceived, can affect patient and stakeholder confidence in clinicians, products, companies – and the entire medical device industry.
Medtronic has been an industry leader in enhancing confidence in physician collaborations and protecting patient’s interests. In 2010, we reviewed and strengthened all internal policies and procedures around compensation and collaboration with U.S. physicians to meet our goal:
To sustain and enhance medical innovation through principled collaboration
Through this effort, we developed guiding principles and standards to preserve physician collaboration for the benefit of patients, while minimizing actual or perceived conflicts of interest.
Guiding principles
- Preserve the integrity of physician-patient relationships
- Remain transparent about compensation and policies