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Wednesday, 9 November 2011

Template: Software Requirements Specifications

Here is the first template I want to share with you. Software Requirements Specifications, is the main document to fill with technical requirements of your software. It contains entries compliant with IEC 62304, IEC 62366 and ISO 14971.

Please, fell free to give me feedback on my e-mail contact@cm-dm.com

I share this template with the conditions of CC-BY-NC-ND license.



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Friday, 4 November 2011

How to classify and CE mark software

Medical devices shall have CE mark before being sold in the EU. The process to have CE mark can be summarized this way:

  1. Determining the class of the device,
  2. Choosing the CE procedure to apply,
  3. Declaring CE conformity of the device.

Software follows exactly the same process as other devices. Here are the steps to follow to CE mark software.

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5 recommendations to engineers developing medical device software

A lot of standards and regulations exist about medical devices: how to design, to produce, to sell, to monitor their use … Everything about each step in the life of devices, from the initial idea 10 years before selling anything, to the archiving of records 10 years after the last item has been sold. A lot of specific standards or guidances on how applying medical devices standards exist about software. That’s the consequence of software being very specific (I should say peculiar), compared to other components in medical devices. Conception is the most critical part in the lifecycle of software. Software is never 100% finished, user always want enhancements and modifications.

From my own experience in the field, I gathered 5 basic recommendations you should follow.

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Tuesday, 1 November 2011

ISO and IEC standards for software in medical devices in a nutshell

Here is a short description of ISO and IEC standards related to software and medical devices.

The starting point is legal. Government agencies give the authorizations to manufacturers to sell their devices. These agencies rely on standards to ensure that the device was designed and manufactured in a good and safe way. Given these regulations, medical device manufacturers have to adhere to these standards. Full stop.

Let's see what these standards are.

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Monday, 3 October 2011

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Precision about templates: You can freely download and fill the templates posted on this site, to produce technical documentation. The documents produced by filling the templates are outside the scope of the license. However, the modification of templates to produce new templates is in the scope of the license and is not allowed by this license.

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Sunday, 10 January 2010

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