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Alan Kusinitz
With the permission of Oliver Christ of PROSYSTEM AG in Hamburg, Germany, you can view or download slides at the link provided entitled: Cost-effective Application of Usability Engineering and Risk-Management. Oliver and his partner are heavily involved in standards and these slides provide an excellent overview of medical device usability, software, and risk management standards...
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http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-17739.pdf
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This SoftwareCPR.com newsletter lists items added to the web site since March 21,2008 and as of August 6, 2008 . 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...
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This content is only available to Premium and higher subscribers.  See our Subscribe page for information on subscriptions. This reference manual includes select FDA documents as well as SoftwareCPR training aides and checklists that SoftwareCPR uses in its training courses on Validation of Clinical Trials Computer Systems. The PDF is over 2 MB so be patient downloading...
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This SoftwareCPR.com newsletter lists items added to the website from October 16, 2007 to March 21,2008. 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 the related...
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/docs/JMurrayFDAsoftwarecompliancesciencepresentationversion2.0-02-20-2008.pdf
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The link provided contains an academic presentation on good records management in general both paper and electronic. It identifies a number of standards that may be of value in establishing a good records management system. Records Management Standards Presentation 101706
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Dr. Nancy Leveson of MIT indicated that there are some new papers involving a demonstration of STAMP (and STPA) being used for safety-driven design of a new JPL mission to Europa including a very complete example. A JPL modeling language was incorporated (JPL was funding the work), but had little to do with the final...
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http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidance/GuidanceDocuments/ucm089402.htm
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https://www.softwarecpr.com/Docs/Jmurray-AAMI-Webinar-December-4-2007-A.pdf
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Brian Fitzgerald Deputy Division Director, Division of Electrical and Software Engineering, FDA CDRH, Office of Science & Engineering Laboratories, provided a list of software analysis tools FDA’s laboratory uses in evaluating medical device code. This was in response to a question posed at a recent AAMI Webinar that John Murray of FDA and Alan Kusinitz...
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In an AAMI Webinar John Murray of FDA indicated that it appears that software issues comprise 16 percent of medical device recalls and there is some thought to developing some special procedures for handling these. SoftwareCPR has found approximately 75 recalls related to software as of the end of November 2007 for the year which...
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Recipient:Cardinal Enterprises, Inc Product: drug products. Date: 12/1/2007 This inspection revealed significant deviations from Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) Regulations (Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (21 “CFR), Parts 210 and 211). These deviations cause the drug products manufactured at this facility to be adulterated within the meaning of Section 501(a)(2)(B) of the Federal Food,...
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CENELEC decides to include 62304 harmonization for the IVD directive based on a recommendation of TC 62. This is in addition to the MDD and AIMD.
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https://www.softwarecpr.com/docs/CBERbecsvalidationguidanceDraft1007.pdf
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This content is only available to Premium and higher subscribers.  See our Subscribe page for information on subscriptions. 21 CFR Part 11 is a topic of current focus for FDA and industry.  This manual contains the most important FDA documents related to Part 11 as well as some key SoftwareCPR educational Aides as listed below: This manual...
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The new revision of ISO 14971 was released in 2007 and is now a harmonized standard in the EU. The transition period for companies using the previous version ends March 9, 2010.
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The draft AAMI Technical Information Report “Validation of software for regulated processes” has completed balloting. This document addresses software used to automate production and quality systems. The working group is resolving comments submitted and the timeline for release is Q1 2008.
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Microsoft announced they have a fix for a bug that causes display of 100,000 when the actual number is 2 to the 65,536. Even with validation this would be difficult to catch in testing unless one happened to pick test cases that included values resulting in exactly 65,536 or 65,535 Information related to this is...
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http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/mdufma/guidance/agenda/fy08.html#2
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The EU parliament released a final revision of the Medical Device Directive (MDD) and Active Implantable Medical Device Directive (AIMDD). It includes a number of additions related to software. These additions and clarifications stress that standalone software can be a medical device but not all software used in healthcare is a medical device. It also...
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This content is only available to Premium and higher subscribers.  See our Subscribe page for information on subscriptions. Crimson Life Sciences which performs language translations for labeling and user interfaces was assessed by Underwriters Laboratory for conformance with the ISO 14971 Medical Device Risk Management standard. The summary of the audit results is available at this link...
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The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released software security information via a webpage, initiatives, and various documents related to software security. Some of this information (such as the paper on Security in a Software Lifecycle) may aid medical device IT and device software developers in designing in appropriate security and privacy measures to ensure...
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The pdf at the link provided is a reprint of an article entitled “Risk-Based Validation of Multilingual Medical Devices” co-authored by Alan Kusinitz, Managing Partner of SoftwareCPR, and Kai Simonsen of the Crimson Life Sciences division Transperfect Translations for the AAMI Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology journal and published in the Summer of 2007. Reprinted with...
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This content is only available to Premium and higher subscribers.  See our Subscribe page for information on subscriptions. Our SoftwareCPR audit checklist for assessing conformance with the FDA Guidance for “Computerized Systems Used in Clinical Trials” can be viewed and downloaded at this link:  ClinicalTrialsSWFullChecklist. This checklist has been updated by Mary Decareau of SoftwareCPR to reflect...
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This content is only available to Premium and higher subscribers.  See our Subscribe page for information on subscriptions. 21 CFR Part 11 is a topic of current focus for FDA and industry. In February 2003 FDA announced a major change in direction regarding Part 11 and withdrew all previous draft Part 11 guidance and the Part 11...
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/Docs/FDAClinicalTrialsComputerSystemGuidance-051007-04d-0440-gdl0002.pdf
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/Docs/ComputerizedLaborMonitoringSystemClassificationRule042407.pdf
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/Docs/ComputerizedLaborMonitoringSystemGuidance042407.pdf
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The EU parliament reviewed the suggested changes to the Medical Device Directives including software related changes. The full Oct 2006 report is at the link provided. MDD
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IEC 62A and ISO 210 balloting is complete and both approved the work item to initiate project number IEC 80002 Medical device software – Guidance on the application of ISO 14971 to medical device software. The first working group meeting will be in May in Germany. Depending on the direction this work takes it could...
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/docs/JMurrayPresentation-softwarecompliancescienceMarch2007.pdf
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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 is a reprint of an article entitled “Uses and Misuses of Probability in Medical Device Risk Management” authored by Alan Kusinitz, Managing Partner of SoftwareCPR, for the AAMI Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology journal...
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/docs/FDAComplementaryandAlternativeMedicineProductsDraft2006.pdf
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/docs/IVDDFDARegulationofSoftwarePresentation1106.pdf
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