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Friday, 8 March 2024

Templates: Security Risk Management Plan and Security Risk Assessment Report

Cybersecurity guidances and standards have quite evolved the last few months.
It's time to push new templates!

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Friday, 6 October 2023

Final 2023 FDA Premarket Cybersecurity guidance released

The final version of the FDA guidance titled "Cybersecurity in Medical Devices: Quality System Considerations and Content of Premarket Submissions was published the 27th September 2023.

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Monday, 9 January 2023

IEC 81001-5-1 was added to the list of recognized consensus standards

The FDA added late December 2022 IEC 81001-5-1 to the list of recognized consensus standards.
That's it. After beating around the bush on this blog on whether UL 2900-x or IEC 81001-5-1 would be applicable to 510(k) submissions and other regulatory clearances, we now have the answer.

We can use IEC 81001-5-1 as:

A good way to make thing (a bit) more simple.

Remark: UL 2900-x can still be applied in the US!

Friday, 10 June 2022

Cybersecurity in Medical Devices: Quality System Considerations and Content of Premarket Submission

The FDA issued in April a new draft guidance on Cybersecurity in Medical Devices: Quality System Considerations and Content of Premarket Submissions. This guidance will supersede the guidance on Content of Premarket Submissions for Management of Cybersecurity in Medical Devices of 2014, when it is finalized. There’s no word about the draft guidance of 2018. We can suppose that one is obsolete.

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Monday, 6 December 2021

FDA Draft Guidance on Content of Premarket Submissions for Device Software Functions

Great news! The FDA announced their list of new or revised guidances for 2022. Software is going to be privileged, with 6 guidances on Clinical Decision Support software, SaMD risk categorization, cybersecurity, QMS SW, and Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning. The draft guidance Content of Premarket Submissions for Device Software Functions opens the ball in 2021. This draft guidance will supersede the guidance titled Content of Premarket Submissions for Software Contained in Medical Device, when it is published in its final version. This little change in the title is a sign of the times.

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Friday, 5 February 2021

FDA about to exempt fifteen software devices from 510k clearance

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.

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Friday, 4 September 2020

FDA Guidance on Multiple Function Device Products

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.

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Thursday, 24 January 2019

Cybersecurity - Draft guidances from FDA and Health Canada

The US FDA published in October 2018 a new draft version of its guidance on the content of premarket submissions for management of cybersecurity in medical devices. Two months later, Health Canada published in December 2018 a draft guidance document on pre-market requirements for medical device cybersecurity.

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Friday, 19 January 2018

FDA Guidance on Medical Device Accessories updated

Here is a quick follow-up of the new version of the FDA Guidance titled Medical Device Accessories – Describing Accessories and Classification Pathways, published in December 2017. This comes a bit in parallel to the Section 3060 guidance described in the previous post on the 21st Century Cures Act.

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Friday, 12 January 2018

Consequences of the 21st Century Cures Act - State of Play

Since the last blog post on US FDA guidance on software classification, things evolved quickly with the FDA. We know where they want to go with software as medical device, but not exactly how they will implement it.
Let's do a review of what has been done since the publication of the 21st Century Cures Act.

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Friday, 10 February 2017

Final FDA Guidance on Postmarket Management of Cybersecurity in Medical Devices - Final version released

This article is a follow-up of the previous article on the Draft guidance on Postmarket Management of Cybersecurity in Medical Devices.

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Final FDA Guidance on Medical Device Accessories: Defining Accessories and Classification Pathway for New Accessory Types

This article is a follow-up of the article on the Draft guidance on Medical Device Accessories: Defining Accessories and Classification Pathway for New Accessory Types.

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Friday, 19 August 2016

Three new FDA guidances

The FDA released three new FDA guidances in July 2016:

  • Two draft guidances on Deciding When to Submit a 510(k) for a Change to an Existing Device,
  • The final guidance on General Wellness: Policy for Low Risk Devices.

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Friday, 5 February 2016

New FDA draft guidance on interoperable medical devices

The draft guidance about Design Considerations and Pre-market Submission Recommendations for Interoperable Medical Devices was published late January 2016.

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Friday, 29 January 2016

FDA draft guidance on Postmarket Management of Cybersecurity in Medical Devices

The FDA released one week ago a new draft guidance on Postmarket Management of Cybersecurity in Medical Devices.
This guidance is the sister of the guidance on Content of Premarket Submissions for Management of Cybersecurity in Medical Devices released in 2014. Both guidances address cybersecurity at different steps of software lifecycle: the 2014 guidance is about cybersecurity during design and development, the 2016 draft guidance is about cybersecurity during post-market surveillance.

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Friday, 15 January 2016

IEC 82304-1 - latest news about the standard on Health Software

IEC 82304-1 Health software -- Part 1: General requirements for product safety standard is still under development. Its status is visible on the page of ISO website, dedicated to IEC 82304-1. There is even a preview of the first three pages of this draft standard.

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Friday, 18 December 2015

IMDRF final document: Software as a Medical Device (SaMD): Application of Quality Management System

The IMDRF published in October 2015 the guidance document titled "Software as a Medical Device (SaMD): Application of Quality Management System" in its final version.

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Wednesday, 23 September 2015

IEC 62366-1 becomes recognized by the FDA

Long time no see. For those of you guys who have been following this blog for a long time.
Today I have time to write a short article on the new version of IEC 62366 standard: IEC 62366-1:2105 Application of usability engineering to medical devices.

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Friday, 28 August 2015

Validation of software used in production and QMS - Part 3 Validation Protocol and Reports

We continue this series on validation of software used in production and QMS with the Validation Protocol and Reports.

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Friday, 24 July 2015

Validation of software used in production and QMS - Part 2 Validation Master Plan

We continue this series on validation of software used in production and QMS with the Validation Master Plan (VMP).
Better than endless explanations, I added a Validation Master Plan template to my templates repository page.

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