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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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
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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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 management SW tool to create a more flexible and rigorous approach than standalone
Agile Design Controls: How to Support Rapid Design Iterations for SW-Intensive Medical Devices How to examples using Matrix ALM and JIRA Traditional methods for medical device development cannot keep up with the challenges of modern, software-intensive medical devices, which need to be developed iteratively and to be regularly updated after launch. Software tools for requirements
My Notes on CyberSecurity I learned a lot about the latest trends in cybersecurity and how to protect medical devices and hospitals at the Connected Devices: CyperSecurity & Compliance conference this week hosted in San Francisco. Upcoming Events Agile Design Controls: How to Support Rapid Design Iterations for Software-Intensive Medical Devices In this webinar I’ll
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Is your medical device secure? I learned a lot about the latest trends in cybersecurity and how to protect medical devices and hospitals at a conference this week hosted in San Francisco and featuring presentations by cybersecurity experts from the medical device industry, from hospital systems, and from vendors of security tools. Medical device cybersecurity
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FDA Software Guidances and the IEC 62304 Software Standard There are two sets of rules for SW regulation—twice the rules, twice the confusion. My recommendation is to base your software development procedures on the IEC 62304 Standard and then include any additional adjustments needed to meet all the FDA requirements. This article details exactly what
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Beginner’s Guide to Medical Device Software “Medical Device Software for Newbies” or “Why is this stuff so confusing?” This article is designed for people who are new to medical device software—either experienced with software but not medical device regulations or experienced with medical device hardware only. Why is software special? References on medical cybersecurity for
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