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Alan Kusinitz
This SoftwareCPR.com newsletter lists items added to the website from March 26, 2009 to November 9, 2009 . It serves as an easy reference to find new or updated items that may be of interest to you and provides a full index of SoftwareCPR educational items. You can click on sections of the document and...
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The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute continued work on safety assurance cases for medical devices by publishing a paper entitled “Towards an Assurance Case Practice for Medical Devices” doing an example case for an infusion pump. The full article is at the link provided. Although this is intended uses infusion pumps as an example it...
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The European Commission Borderline and Classification committee has put out a call for software experts to join a working group on qualification and classification of software. The first meeting will be December 2nd, and will be chaired by Lennart Philipson from the Swedish Medical Products Agency. The Medical Information System report from Sweden has been...
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The EU standardization organizations, CEN and CENELEC, have formed a joint working group on standards for software and medical devices (SAMD). The first meeting will be December 8th. Notice is at the link provided. With the harmonization of IEC 62304 (including for IVD devices), potential modifications to the scope of 60601, and the recent Medical...
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This content is only available to Premium and higher subscribers.  See our Subscribe page for information on subscriptions. The attached zip file contains 3 training templates. One is for an example software development SOP, one is a companion software development plan, and one is a template for software risk analysis incorporating the concept of predefined categories of...
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This topic includes links to software safety guidance from other safety related industries that have useful information that could be applied to medical device software. All of these and sometimes others are in the document library section of the website.
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For those using or interested in the SEI’s Capability Maturity Model, the link provided contains a white paper comparing IEC 62304 and the CMMi. This white paper was prepared by David Walker, a consultant that is a licensed SEI partner. It is published here with his permission. 62304-CMMi-comparison-DWalker092909
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Sandy Hedberg of SoftwareCPR reported that at the BECS conference Nov. 4-5, 2009 Brian Fitzgerald of FDA gave a presentation in which use of virtual machines was mentioned. Sandy’s synopsis is: Brian Fitzgerald of FDA discussed use of the emerging technology, of virtual machines. A virtual machine is a hardware emulation layer of an operating...
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Health Canada now indicates that patient management software fits the definition of a medical device. “Any patient management software used only for archiving or viewing information or images, and not involved in the primary acquisition, manipulation and transfer of data, is considered a Class I medical device based on Rule 12 of the Medical Devices Regulations.”
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http://www.fda.gov/medicaldevices/deviceregulationandguidance/guidancedocuments/ucm187084.htm#7
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CDRH moved to a new location. The address of the document mail center for submissions and related communications is now: U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiological Health Document Mail Center – WO66-G609 10903 New Hampshire Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002
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“IEC TR 80002-1 Medical device software – Part 1: Guidance on the application of ISO 14971 to medical device software” has been released. This standard was based on AAMI TIR32 but focuses on the 14971 perspective. AAMI has adopted TR 80002-1 as well and may obsolete TIR32 although there are some areas where TIR32 is...
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At public conferences representatives of FDA have indicated that the draft Medical Device Data System Classification rule was returned from FDA legal review for clarification of how public comments were addressed. This will delay release of the final rule perhaps 3-6 months, but this is hard to estimate.
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This SoftwareCPR.com newsletter lists items added to the website from Jan 1, 2009 to March 26, 2009 . It serves as an easy reference to find new or updated items that may be of interest to you and provides a full index of SoftwareCPR educational items. You can click on sections of the document and...
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This content is only available to Premium and higher subscribers.  See our Subscribe page for information on subscriptions. The attached pdf is a SoftwareCPR training aide and should not be used blindly to fill in the blanks. It is a partial example of a software risk analysis procedure and report. It is just one partial approach that...
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This link contains an August 2007 draft Korean KFDA guideline entitled “Medical Software Evaluation Guidelines.” This guidance focuses on examining information about the software and what it does, rather than how it may fail or risk management for those failures. There is significant emphasis and specificity in revision numbering and change control. Korea KFDA Software Guideline
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/docs/JMurray-SoftwareDeviceClassification-AAMIStandardsConference031809.pdf
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These two draft standards for networked medical devices and for medical device software risk management have been renumbered IEC 80001-1 and IEC 80002-1 respectively. IEC 80002-1 was released for a 3 month ballot period Jan 16, 2009.
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The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute performs a number of research projects each year. Their december report on these projects is at the link provided. One of the projects was on safety cases for medical devices. Sherman Eagles of SoftwareCPR and Paul Jones of FDA participated in this project.TECHNICAL REPORT CMU/SEI-2008-TR-025 ESC-TR-2008-025 SEI assurance case...
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This content is only available to Premium and higher subscribers.  See our Subscribe page for information on subscriptions. The pdf at the link provided contains a set of FDA reference documents and partial examples used in SoftwareCPR training courses on Validation of Production and Quality System Software and Part 11. This is just a partial set and...
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This topic provides educational checklists related to several standards and regulations. SoftwareCPR checklists are available to paid subscribers of www.softwarecpr.com by using their login. These are only intended for use by those experienced in the related regulations and standards and are not intended to be used blindly as there may be significant interpretational ambiguities and...
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http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/devadvice/314.html
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This topic contains several of the slide sets for presentations posted on the website. These include ONLY SOME of the FDA staff presentations as well as SoftwareCPR presentations. Others are available in the library section of the website.
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The pdf at the link provided is a reprint of 2 articles entitled “Sensible Software Testing” parts 1 and 2, with the permission of the author Sean Beatty of High Impact Services. Mr. Beatty was a member of the working group that developed AAMI TIR32: Medical Device Software Risk Management. He is very experienced in...
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This topic contains selected references for electronic records and signatures compliance. It is NOT an exhaustive set and MORE can be found by searching the document library on this website. Paid subscribers have access to all items listed while others have limited access. Other training aides may be provided to paid subscribers on request if...
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This content is only available to Premium and higher subscribers.  See our Subscribe page for information on subscriptions. The attached pdf is a training aide and should not be used blindly to fill in the blanks. It is a partial example of Software Design Specification tailored from an IEEE standard. Design Spec – SoftwareCPR Template-Rev3
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This content is only available to Premium and higher subscribers.  See our Subscribe page for information on subscriptions. The attached pdf is a training aide and should not be used blindly to fill in the blanks. It is a partial example of a User Interface Design Specification. UI Design – SoftwareCPR Template-Rev2
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This content is only available to Premium and higher subscribers.  See our Subscribe page for information on subscriptions. The attached pdf is a SoftwareCPR training aide and should not be used blindly to fill in the blanks. It is a partial example for a software requirements specification (SRS) for a small surgical device. SRS-template-embeddev-SoftwareCPRtrainingdocRev2
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This topic contains selected partial document and procedure training templates as well as assorted validation tips. It is NOT an exhaustive set and MORE can be found by searching the document library on this website. Paid subscribers have access to all items listed while others have limited access. Other training aides may be provided to...
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http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/ReportaProblem/ucm124082.htm
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This topic contains selected partial document and procedure training templates as well assorted validation tips for validation of manufacturing and quality system software. It is NOT an exhaustive set and MORE can be found by searching the document library on this website. Paid subscribers have access to all items listed while others have limited access....
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The pdf at the link provided is a reprint of an article entitled “Sensible Software Testing” with the permission of the author Sean Beatty of High Impact Services. Mr. Beatty was a member of the working group that developed AAMI TIR32: Medical Device Software Risk Management. He is very experienced in embedded programming and this...
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IEC 62304 and IEC 60601-1 3rd edition were harmonized in the European Union on November 28. A claim of compliance with 62304 now provides a presumption of conformity with the MDD and AIMDD for software. In addition, 62366 – application of usability engineering to medical devices has also been harmonized.
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This is a list of ONLY SOME of the most popular software related articles and white papers on our website; additional ones can be found be searching our library. All reprints not copyrighted by SoftwareCPR are provided with permissions of the authors or publishers unless they are government issued public information. Please respect the copyrights....
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IEC/CD2 80001, Application of risk management for IT-networks incorporating medical devices was released for balloting on 11/25/2008 by AAMI. This standard applies to Medical Device manufacturers as well as healthcare IT organizations. The deadline for comments is Jan 15, 2009. An article about this standard by SoftwareCPR partner Sherman Eagles is posted on this website.
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The Chinese regulatory authority SFDA has adapted IEC 62304 “Medical device software – software lifecycle processes” as the software development standard for the Chinese Medical Device Industry. It has been translated to chinese. The publishing date is April, 25, 2008. The implementation date is June 1, 2009.
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The 1998 2nd edition of the standard UL 1998 Software in ProgrammableComponents was reaffirmed and reissued Oct 28, 2008. There were no substantive changes. This is one of the few software standards recognized by FDA.
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https://www.softwarecpr.com/Docs/JohnMurraySlides-IEC62304-091508.pdf
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