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Use Quality Principles to Blast Past Compliance Into Excellence

Use Quality Principles to Blast Past Compliance Into Excellence

by Katrina Rogers | Jan 30, 2020 | Product Development

The FDA has long supported a quality approach to improve the safety of medical products. The Case for Quality captures the continuing efforts to encourage medical device manufacturers to apply quality principles to their products and operations. The program was...
The Increased Role of International Harmonization Efforts in FDA

The Increased Role of International Harmonization Efforts in FDA

by Katrina Rogers | Jan 28, 2020 | Product Development

It appears to me that the FDA is increasing its use of medical products harmonization document as a source for regulatory guidance in recent years. For example, during the Pharmaceutical Quality Symposium in October, Tara Groen and Rapti Maudurawe of the FDA noted the...
The Compliance Program Guidance Manual Guides Inspections

The Compliance Program Guidance Manual Guides Inspections

by Katrina Rogers | Jan 23, 2020 | Product Development, Uncategorized

Similar to the MAPP discussed in a previous post, the Compliance Program Guidance Manual (CPGM) contains the instructions used by FDA personnel to perform the agency’s compliance work. Unlike the MAPP, the instructions in the CPGM are more like FDA guidance in that...
Understanding CDER Through Its Policies and Procedures

Understanding CDER Through Its Policies and Procedures

by Katrina Rogers | Jan 21, 2020 | Medicine, Product Development

An organization with a robust quality system will have established policies and procedures, so it should be no surprise that CDER has a full set. By law, these must be available to the public, so they have been published on the CDER website as the CDER Manual of...

Cybersecurity for Medical Devices Part 2

by Katrina Rogers | Jan 16, 2020 | Medical Products, Product Development

Conduct Your Risk Assessment Using the CVSS Standard Management of cybersecurity across the lifecycle of a medical device includes repeat assessments of the device’s vulnerabilities, categorization of their severity, and prioritizing risk mitigation and controls. The...
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