(or “achieving compliance without bringing everything to a crawl”) Creating a quality system is fundamental for a medical startup because 1) it’s the law, and 2) it ensures a safe, reliable product. While a good quality system encompasses best practices at a company and makes the most of each employee’s work, a bad one hinders […]
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Aaron is excellent to work with and has been invaluable for the team’s success. His consistently identified issues and provided recommendations for resolving technical, process and regulatory challenges. Aaron is technically competent and is able to lead a cross functional group to resolution. Aaron is who I would call on to streamline technical or regulatory
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Risk Management Risk management plays a central role in medical device development but many medical device professionals I’ve worked with over the years seem to have missed the forest for the trees. They are more focused on the details of risk management compliance than the central goal of product safety. This blog post summarizes the
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Understanding all the details of risk analysis methods and compliance with the ISO 14971 risk management standard can be quite complicated but fundamentally, for development of a new medical device, risk management is about answering these seven key questions: What are all the possible things that could go wrong? What are we most worried about?
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Have employees new to medical devices? I offer practical training on Medical Device Design Controls either on site or at a public workshop. Agile Design Controls This is a three part recorded webinar series that illustrates a flexible and rigorous approach to managing design controls for software-intensive medical devices. I teamed up with software experts
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This webinar describes how to support rapid design iterations of medical devices while still maintaining systematic, rigorous V&V testing. Traditional approaches to V&V are often slow, inefficient, and break down with repeated testing. Learn how to configure modern SW tools to manage testing of a large number of requirements with multiple retesting and with automatic
Available Now This webinar describes how to support rapid design iterations of medical devices while still maintaining systematic, rigorous V&V testing. Traditional approaches to V&V are often slow, inefficient, and break down with repeated testing. Learn how to configure modern SW tools to manage testing of a large number of requirements with multiple retesting and
Agile Design Controls Part 2 Webinar: Dynamic Risk Management for SW-Intensive Medical Devices This webinar describes a dynamic approach to managing risk analysis and risk controls to keep up with fast moving product development teams. Learn the nuts and bolts of how to integrate risk management into the overall product development workflow using a requirements
Embracing Change: Your Connected Medical Device is Never Finished Embracing change means setting up your organization, processes, and tools to efficiently manage changes during product development and after product launch. Agile Design Controls: Dynamic Risk Management for SW-Intensive Medical Devices Learn the nuts and bolts of how to integrate risk management into the overall product
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The proliferation of software in modern medical devices has enabled innovative new applications and many benefits to patients. However, it has also created greater challenges for medical device companies: namely, managing greater product complexity and more reliance on third party software components. For connected devices there are the added challenges of cybersecurity risks, protecting patient
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