North America
By Michael Rugnetta– The FDA wants to encourage the development of Health IT and Mobile Apps and has expressed a hands-off approach for low-risk forms of those technologies. Is that the right approach for the FDA to take? And how hands off exactly? What can...
North America
Recently a wide range of X-ray and computerized tomography technology were discovered to be acutely vulnerable. According to researcher Scott Erven, an unnamed organization exposed intelligence on over 68,000 systems, causing alarm. Erven noted that passwords to such...
North America
by Priya Bhutani, CEO RegDesk – Summary Technical Document (STED) is the proposed harmonized format used for regulatory submissions by the Global Harmonization Task Force (GHTF). Albeit STED is in its pilot phase, it has the potential to standardize format for...
Asia
Learn about what Global Medical Device Regulations regulatory stands for: If you are strong exporter of medical devices, you should know about global medical device regulations. Canada The Medical Devices Bureau of the Therapeutic Products Directorate (TPD) is the...
Consultant Post
by George C., Consultant on RegDesk As a result of fraudulent medical devices entering the US market (such as orgone accumulators and other quack medical devices), an increase in the number of medical device recalls, and various medical devices causing death and/or...
North America
Any manufacturer who wants to legally market their medical device in the US intended for human use has to get FDA approval. Any class I, II, or III devices, which is not exempt and does not require premarket approval must fulfill the requirements of a 510(k) of the...
