• 2022-06-29 03:18:32

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released a new draft guidance to further a voluntary program aiming to improve quality-related processes in medical device manufacturing. The concept comes from the Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC), which assesses the capability and performance of key business processes using a maturity appraisal model tailored to the medical device industry. The overall stated goal is to enhance the quality processes and to improve the overall medical device quality, as to ultimately ensure better patient treatment outcomes.

• 2022-06-29 02:30:03

The termination of Thai FDA's "Pre-Submission" resulted in the establishment of a new route to determine product risk classification and medical device grouping via the E-submission system.

• 2022-06-29 02:24:35

The Malaysia Medical Device Authority (MDA) released the 2nd Edition of Guidance on The Rules of Classification for General Medical Devices MDA/GD/0009 on May 9, 2022.

• 2022-06-29 02:17:39

In April 2020, the Medical Device Authority (MDA) has issued a new Guidance Document regarding the classification of Rehabilitation, Physiotherapy, and Speech Therapy Devices (MDA/GD/0061). This document guides the manufacturers and authorised representatives on classifying rehabilitation, physiotherapy, and speech therapy as medical devices.

• 2022-06-29 02:14:40

MDCG 2022-6 provides clarifications on the concept of ‘significant changes in the design and intended purposes’ under IVDR Article 110(3). It concerns manufacturers of devices that are compliant with Directive 98/79/EC (IVDD) and that are placed on the market or put into service after 26th May 2022 during the transition period.

• 2022-06-29 02:11:11

MDCG 2022-5 is a guidance which provides elaboration of the borderline between medical devices and medicinal products, including relevant definitions and examples for these types of products, such as herbal products, substance-based devices and medical device and medicinal product combinations.

• 2022-06-29 02:03:22

China's Center for Medical Device Evaluation (CMDE) has released recommended paths for clinical evaluation for a number of products, which fall in the subcategories 11-15, 17, as well as 22 of the Category of Medical Devices.

• 2022-06-29 01:53:45

NMPA has made 3 important announcements on issuing the List of Medical Devices Prohibited from Contract Manufacturing (No. 17 of 2022), the Quality Agreements of Contract Manufacturing Medical Devices (No. 20, 2022), and on Matters Concerning the Implementation of the <Measures for the Supervision and Administration of the Production of Medical Devices> and the <Measures for the Supervision and Administration of the Operation of Medical Devices> (No. 18 of 2022), which have been summarized in our article below.

• 2022-06-29 01:41:00

The TGA has given a presentation about the evidence expectations for medical devices or surfaces with anti-viral or anti-microbial claims in the Australasian Society for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering (ASBTE) Conference 2022. This presentation provided manufacturers and sponsors general insights on the subject of medical devices with anti-viral or anti-microbial claims before the device inclusion in the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG).

• 2022-06-29 01:29:59

Recently, software technology has made significant advances and has been used considerably more frequently for medical purposes. It can drive itself to infer a clinical judgment in addition to serving as a message informant. The number of software-based medical devices that are currently on the market has significantly increased as a result of such software improvements. Therefore, it is important to monitor patient safety appropriately.