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Friday, 1 November 2013

Essential list of guidances updated

The last time I updated my essential list of guidances was in 2012. Today I've done a full refresh of that page with:

  • Change of GHTF to IMDRF,
  • Update of links to TEAM-NB website,
  • Update of FDA guidances, especially the brand new guidance about mobile medical applications.


I hope you'll find all relevant regulatory information about software on that essential list of guidances.

Friday, 25 October 2013

Testing is overrated

Software testing is the keystone of bugs discovery. Most of software engineers and project managers think this assertion is true!

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Friday, 18 October 2013

Template: new Software Configuration Management Plan

A new Software Configuration Management Plan (SCMP) Template, more adapted to agile methods.

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Friday, 11 October 2013

How to validate a software medical device running on web browsers?

Your company develops medical web apps (HTML/JS, HTML5 or any other client-side technology) and your customers would like them to run on every web browser.

Web browsers are SOUP, according to IEC 62304. In case of Chrome and Firefox there are dozens of versions...

Does it mean that software has to be tested - and documented - with every single browser and every single version of the browser?
That's a nightmare!

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Friday, 4 October 2013

Template: Risk Matrix Calculator

Risk matrixes are a useful way to show graphically the ranges in which risks are acceptable, tolerable and unacceptable. Here is an excel sheet that automates the computation of ranges.

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Friday, 27 September 2013

Want to post a medical App on Apple Store? Things get harder!

Apple now asking app developers to provide sources of medical information says imedicalapps.com web site.

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Wednesday, 25 September 2013

FDA issues final Mobile Medical Apps Guidance

After two years of gestation, FDA issues final Guidance on Mobile Medical Apps!

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Friday, 20 September 2013

Templates Risk Management Plan and Risk Analysis Report updated

Here is an update of Risk Management Plan and Risk Analysis Report templates.

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Wednesday, 18 September 2013

'Tipping point' for mobile health apps, on BBC News

Here is a record of an interview on BBC News radio.

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Friday, 13 September 2013

Templates STP - STD and STR updated

Here is an update of Software Test Plan, Software Test Description, and Software Test Report templates.

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Tuesday, 10 September 2013

What is Digital Health?

Last week in stumbled upon a video made by Paul Sonnier, head of the Digital Health Group on Linkedin.

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Friday, 6 September 2013

Templates SAD and SDD updated

Here is an update of System Architecture Description template and Software Detailed Design template.

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Friday, 30 August 2013

Template SRS updated

Here is an update of Software Requirements Specifications template.

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Friday, 16 August 2013

2013 Summer break

Summer break. See you at the end of the month with new templates and new articles about hot subjects like mobile apps or software risks management.

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Friday, 9 August 2013

FDA recognizes 25 standards about IT risk management, interoperability and cybersecurity

FDA recognizes 25 standards about risk management, interoperability and cybersecurity.
More on AAMI news website and the link to the Federal Register notice of Aug 6, 2013.

Friday, 2 August 2013

FDA Mobile Medical App Guidances should be released by the end of the year

To continue the topic about FDA draft guidances related to software and information systems, the FDA put in its top list the release of the Guidance of Mobile Medical Apps.

Guidance of Mobile Medical Apps is in the "A-list" of FDA and should be released by the end of 2013.

In hot topics, we have also a warning letter sent by the FDA to Biosense Technologies. The mobile App named uChek Urine Analyzer and developed by Biosense Technologies, falls into the category of medical devices, says FDA. Biosense claims on its website that the App turns the smartphone into a medical lab.

With such claim, it's not surprising that the FDA wants Biosense to submit a 510k!

Saturday, 27 July 2013

IMDRF published a proposed document on standalone software definitions

At be beginning of june 2013, the International Medical Devices Regulators Forum (IMDRF) published a proposed document on standalone software definitions.
The goal of this document is to harmonize the key definitions related to standalone software.

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Friday, 19 July 2013

Unique Device Identification for software medical device - part 2

This is the second part of our discussion about Unique Device Identification (UDI).

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Friday, 12 July 2013

Unique Device Identification for software medical device - part 1

Unique Device Identification (UDI) had been in the pipes of regulators for a few years, beginning with the US in 2007, and following (as usual) by the European Union a few years later in 2012.
In parallel, the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF) issued in 2011 a guidance on UDI, with the honorable objective of harmonizing UDI's all over the world.
What is the impact of these regulations and guidances on medical device software?

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Friday, 5 July 2013

Got SOUP? - Further Reading

Further reading to complete this long series about SOUP:
You can have a look at this excellent article about OTS/SOUP validation strategies.

Next week, we'll see Unique Device Identification (UDI) for software.

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