Developing and bringing a medical device to market is a scary process. Not only do you have to come up with a great idea or design improvement and develop a working prototype, but you must also ensure the device is safe and performs as intended in an...
Medical devices have one purpose: to improve the life of patients. They are developed with this purpose in mind, and the entirety of regulatory compliance is designed to ensure that medical devices remain safe and perform as intended throughout their...
When the updated European Medical Device Regulation (MDR, 2017/745) and In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation (IVDR, 2017/746) were issued in 2017, the European Commission increased the requirements for monitoring the behavior of medical devices in the mark...
Recently, our Scilife CEO Filip invited Mika Siitonen, Medical Development Manager at Labquality and seasoned expert in medical device regulatory guidelines, to answer anything and everything you wanted to know about performing Risk Management under ...
How much do you know about Medical Device Coordination Group Documents? You may be more familiar with their abbreviation: MDCG. Developed on behalf of the European Commission, MDCG Documents are designed to help manufacturers understand how the Medic...
The final date for all MDD-certified devices to be certified under the new MDR is May 25, 2024. Once a medical device is EU MDR compliant (even prior to this date), it can be certified under the MDR. However, it is not mandatory to obtain EU MDR cert...