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Ooh, I've got a good one for you today: An FDA regulator is giving a special 90-minute webinar for Greenlight Guru and the Medical Devices Group. Shout out to Jon Speer for arranging. Your free registration at https://medgroup.biz/case-quality. Franc...
Bradley Merrill Thompson, RAC
Medical Device, Digital Health and Combination Product Regulatory Attorney
June 2018
FDA updates Pre-Cert program as it begins to grapple with ‘hard questions’New updates to the FDA's Software Pre-Cert working model shows the program is making significant gains, but FDA attorney Bradley Merrill Thompson tells FierceHealthcare the age...
This 2016 article says the first causes the second: http://bit.ly/device-recall-epidemicIt blamed manufacturer risk management for a 2014 peak in recalls: The culture, the shallow industry-wide understanding, the inability to tie risk management into...
I need the group's help in recommending a few books that describe the FDA medical device regulation process as basic introductory to intermediate level of material. I have done an Amazon search, but I didn't find very convincing options.source: https...
To ring in the new year, https://medgroup.biz/pre510k. This is a three-hour replay and the 108 slides from David Amor and Jon Speer's presentation at last year's 10x Medical Device Conference. We're making them available this week for $59 (guests pai...
New FDA data continues to show an industry in crisis. One third (1/3) of all site inspections still get CAPAs that are voluntary or official actions. This holds true going back to 2009. See the chart below. Note the black line that holds steady as th...
Hello all,Do you know if the FDA can inspect your emails if you used email as a record as a proof of compliance?Thankssource: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2070960/2070960-6326393967122489345
Group member Roger Cepeda wrote an informative (and cleverly worded) piece at https://medgroup.biz/RWE called "FDA’s Guidance on Real-World Evidence for Medical Devices: Great for Class III Registry Participants, But What About the Rest of MedTech?" ...
The release of the FY 2018 FDA user fee schedule was delayed until the end of August, because the re-authorization of user fees was not approved until August 18, 2017. For PMA submissions and related supplements there is a 33% increase. For 510(k) su...
In his insightful 10x Conference talk at http://medgroup.biz/Gulfo, Dr. Joseph Gulfo explained the official FDA mandate: To promote the public health by PROMPTLY and EFFICIENTLY reviewing clinical research and taking appropriate action on the marketi...
