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FDA Inspection Intro In Part One of this two-blog series, I shared 5 best practices to prepare your organization for FDA inspection success. Inspections by the FDA can lead to regulatory action and consequences such as warning letters, recalls, and consent decrees. Thus, you want to put your best foot forward to demonstrate the compliance […]
This is part one of a two-part series. Part two is available here. FDA Inspection FDA inspections can be daunting, especially for an organization that is expecting its first one. In part one of a two-blog series, here are five best practices to prepare your organization for success: 1: Understand why the FDA will perform […]
In this post, we pull out key takeaways from a recent whitepaper written in conjunction with Beanstock Ventures on the new EU medical device regulations (EU MDR) and how they might impact medical device development. As medical device technologies have rapidly advanced in recent years, regulations governing definitions, testing, and post-market activities have struggled to […]
Design review processes and their impact on product development. Development organizations typically have a predefined set of formal design reviews that are held throughout the development process. A design review usually includes assessing design input requirements for adequacy, assessing the adequacy of a design to fulfill design input requirements, and verification/validation-related reviews. When done correctly, […]
Complying with FDA Design Control Requirements Using Requirements Management Principles Mercedes Massana: So agenda for today is we’re going to talk a little bit about the design controls and what they are. We’re going to talk about requirements management and what that is. And then we’re going to talk about how the two relate to […]
Congratulations! Your organization has gained regulatory approval and launched its medical device product. The ‘History’ in Design History File may elicit impressions that all those design and development requirements are now done and considered part of the past. However, several components of the DHF continue as a reference and evolve, including requirements and risk management. […]
In the competitive world of medical device development, medical device companies can’t afford to lag behind the pack. Streamlining the design and approval process is vital to getting products to market in a timely manner. Proper documentation is key to a smooth approval process. One essential ingredient to medical device documentation is the Design History […]
As a medical device product development consultant, I often see start-up companies having trouble deciding what to prioritize – design controls and risk management or the quality management system (QMS). And what they mean specifically is, which software systems should the company invest in first – the requirements and risk management solution that will aid […]
Design Controls have been an FDA Quality System Regulation since 1997. Having worked on developing products in the regulated medical device industry for over 35 years, I have compiled a list of the five key takeaways for implementing design controls and achieving success in commercializing medical devices: Design Controls not only help achieve regulatory compliance, […]
This post on Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) development is written by Mercedes Massana, the Principal Consultant of MDM Engineering Consultants. SaMD software is software intended to be used for one or more medical purposes that do not require embedding in a medical device. These purposes can range anywhere from helping to diagnose or […]