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Saturday, 6 November 2021
Ten years
By Mitch on Saturday, 6 November 2021, 16:18 - Misc
Friday, 9 July 2021
Cybersecurity standards: IEC 81001-5-1 and IEC/TR 60601-4-5
By Mitch on Friday, 9 July 2021, 13:37 - Standards
The draft list of harmonized standards for the MDR regulation was published in May 2021. In this document, we find the references to the following cybersecurity standards:
- IEC 80001-1: Safety, effectiveness and security in the implementation and use of connected medical devices or connected health software - Part 1: Application of risk management,
- IEC 81001-5-1 (not published): Health Software and health IT systems safety, effectiveness and security - Part 5-1: Security - Activities in the product lifecycle,
- IEC/TR 60601-4-5: Medical electrical equipment - Part 4-5: Guidance and interpretation - Safety-related technical security specifications.
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Rest in peace class I SaMD
By Mitch on Wednesday, 26 May 2021, 00:01 - Regulations
This is the end of MDD, and class I SaMD.
Friday, 26 March 2021
When Web meets SOUP
By Mitch on Friday, 26 March 2021, 13:38 - Misc
The definition of SOUP, and the requirements related to their lifecycle in IEC 62304 processes, are totally independent of any technology. Making no technological assumption, that's the way the standard is thought, so that it can be applied to any health software.
Cloud-based applications and web technologies make an intensive use of SOUPs. Let's see how IEC 62304 requirements can be applied to these technologies.
Thursday, 4 March 2021
Hey, European Commission, it's time to copy-paste Australian regulation!
By Mitch on Thursday, 4 March 2021, 17:50 - Regulations
The Australian Regulatory changes for software based medical devices took effect from 25th February 2021.
Friday, 19 February 2021
IEC 62304:2021 Committee Draft Version: Groundhog Day
By Mitch on Friday, 19 February 2021, 13:43 - Standards
That's a déjà-vu. The second version of IEC 62304 is still in draft. It has been in this state for five years, since the publication of the amendment 1. We already had a draft version in 2019. A new draft version is, again, in public review (or has been in public review in your country) under the name IEC CDV 62304:2021. Go to the website of your national standardization organization, to see if you can still download it for free!
Friday, 5 February 2021
FDA about to exempt fifteen software devices from 510k clearance
By Mitch on Friday, 5 February 2021, 12:40 - Regulations
A Notice was published in the Federal Register the 15th January 2021, about the exemption of a long list of medical devices from premarket notification. This list, found in table 6 of the Notice, contains 83 class II devices.
Yet, we have to wait for 120 days, to see this Notice published with the list in its final version.
Friday, 25 December 2020
Is my software in IVDR class A, B, C, or D: A new hope
By Mitch on Friday, 25 December 2020, 13:55 - Regulations
After the MDCG guide 2019-11 for the MDR, the MDCG 2020-16 gives the regulatory oversight on In-Vitro Diagnostic medical devices (IVD MD) classification; including software qualified as IVD MD. Let's see the consequences for software.
Friday, 20 November 2020
CE marking a new medical device with the MDR or IVDR: will it take one year?
By Mitch on Friday, 20 November 2020, 14:01 - Regulations
The MDR 2017/745/EU and IVR 2017/746/EU define requirements, present in the Annex VII of both regulations, addressing the conformity assessment process that Notified Bodies shall put in place. It would be an understatement to say that this process will take some time.
Friday, 6 November 2020
Brexit: Regulating medical devices from 1 January 2021 in the UK
By Mitch on Friday, 6 November 2020, 12:23 - Regulations
While the winds of Covid are blowing a bad air on Europe, the UK MHRA published in September 2020 the guidance on regulatory status of medical devices, IVD and AIMD from 1 January 2021.
Friday, 4 September 2020
FDA Guidance on Multiple Function Device Products
By Mitch on Friday, 4 September 2020, 14:34 - Regulations
The FDA published in July the final version of the Guidance on Multiple Function Device Products. Despite the absence of the word "software" in the title, it addresses at first software medical devices. It also addresses hardware devices, but we will focus on software in this post.
Friday, 15 May 2020
Software release vs design transfer
By Mitch on Friday, 15 May 2020, 14:00 - Processes
A recurring question is the confusion, or more precisely the difference between software release of IEC 62304, and design transfer of ISO 13485.
Sunday, 3 May 2020
MDCG 2019-16 Guidance on cybersecurity for medical devices
By Mitch on Sunday, 3 May 2020, 14:20 - Regulations
So we have a new guidance on cybersecurity for medical devices: the MDCG 2019-16. This is not the one we expected so quickly, but we're not going to complain about the existence of this guidance! It was published in December 2019. At last I found time to write a review.
This guidance covers a broad range of topics applicable to all stakeholders in the medical device supply chains, and to end-users. It explains a bit why it is 46 pages long.
Saturday, 18 April 2020
If the European Commission claimed ISO 13485 conformity
By Mitch on Saturday, 18 April 2020, 12:03 - Misc
Having struggled with dozens of software editors who wanted to CE mark their class I software before May 2020. Having struggled with the lockdown, having struggled with projects in war mode to fight against the Covid-19, here I am! My last post was in December 2019, too long to make an active blog.
Today I post an article with a tone of speech a bit different than usual. No software, no comment on regulatory guidances. Probably an effect of the current situation, which affects all of us.
Friday, 6 December 2019
Is my software in class I MDD: Stayin' alive
By Mitch on Friday, 6 December 2019, 14:10 - Regulations
So we have a corrigendum (almost 100% sure. A vote by the EU Parliament is still in the pipe December the 16th, though). To corrigendumize: that's a neologism I propose to name bug fixing activities in legal matters. I corrigendumize, you corrigendumize, they corrigendumize! Any resemblance to "randomize" is purely coincidental!
Saturday, 30 November 2019
Template: Verification Validation Transfer Review Report
By Mitch on Saturday, 30 November 2019, 18:20 - Templates
The final validation was missing in the list on templates on this blog. Problem solved.
Friday, 22 November 2019
IEC 62304:2019 or 2020 - Next Generation
By Mitch on Friday, 22 November 2019, 14:16 - Standards
The second version of IEC 62304 is still in draft. It has been is this state for almost five years, since the publication of the amendment 1. It is now in public review (or has been in public review in your country) under the name IEC 62304:2019 CDV. Go to the website of your national standardization organization, to see if you can still download it for free!
Saturday, 9 November 2019
Eudamed Software Development LifeCycle
By Mitch on Saturday, 9 November 2019, 20:38 - Processes
This is the Eudamed Software Development LifeCycle.
Welcome to the world of software engineering, Eudamed!
Thursday, 31 October 2019
Is my software in class IIa, IIb, or III, Dark Fate
By Mitch on Thursday, 31 October 2019, 14:03 - Regulations
Here we are! White smoke over the European Parliament! The MDCG 2019-11 guidance on qualification and classification of medical device software (MDSW) was published the 11th of October 2019.
Friday, 25 October 2019
User stories or software requirements?
By Mitch on Friday, 25 October 2019, 21:24 - Misc
I frequently have the following discussion with software development teams: can user stories be taken as software requirements? The answer is yes or no. All cases can be found in nature!
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