Overcoming 21 CFR compliance challenges – stringent equipment maintenance requirements, overwhelming documentation demands, the need to maintain data integrity. Insights into challenges healthcare organizations face with compliance and how to incorporate new tools and processes for streamlining maintenance processes, reducing compliance burdens, and ensuring the highest standards of safety and efficiency.
AI has the ability to revolutionize the medical landscape, but to enable this, Quality Engineering is critically important.
An April 2024 survey of medical device regulatory professionals illustrates potential regulatory fatigue. See how resource constraints, ever changing global policy, and an underutilization of technology/digital process are impacting internal burden and fatigue and where implementing new regulatory strategies, upgrading organizational expertise, adding outsourced regulatory services are helping teams cope.
MTI Regulatory Report 2024 data overwhelmingly suggests regulatory resources throughout the industry are being stretched. Time/Bandwidth is the top medical device regulatory challenge faced during 2024, potentially leading to industry-wide regulatory fatigue and driven by changing global compliance regulations in recent years.
Fraudulent data is becoming more common by the submission. So much so that the FDA recently published a press release reminding medical device manufacturers to scrutinize Third-Party Generated Data.” Regulatory consultant, Michelle Lott, discusses the agency’s use of artificial intelligence to find unusual patterns in submitted data and how you might guard against using fraudulent 3rd-party data.
In the light of new research, Peter Muller and Mike Baird of Schlafender Hase assess how well Class 2 and 3 device manufacturers in Europe and the US are adapting to a rise in regulatory controls.
nsuring the safety and efficacy of medical devices/IVDs is paramount in the healthcare industry. This critical objective is achieved through comprehensive risk management practices, and two key frameworks play a crucial role: ISO 14971:2019 and the FDA Quality Management System Regulation (QMSR). This essay explores their individual contributions and how they work synergistically to enhance medical device safety.
Navigating the conformity assessment process – examination of a manufacturer’s technical documentation and quality management system – requires a thorough understanding of the different routes and options available for various risk classifications of medical devices and IVDs, while knowledge of the conformity assessment process helps manufacturers prepare effectively and manage expectations. This blog offers guidance for creating successful conformity assessments.
Misconceptions about using Regulatory Information Management (RIM) platforms to manage MedTech regulatory workflows. Here, we Bust 3 Naysayer Myths.
Nearly 2/3 of device makers say their regulatory intelligence may be insufficient and they lack the resources to complete all product compliance needs this year. See the executive summary of this MedTech Intelligence audience research.
