For complex medical device systems, teams must define what must happen across subsystem boundaries, assign responsibility for ...
On Sept. 16, 2026, ISO published the sixth edition of ISO 9001. Most medical device professionals shrugged, feeling that we ...
Explore how OEMs optimize instrument performance with precision fluidics, optical technologies, and integrated subsystems that improve reliability and accelerate development. Teams must assess the ...
As technical demands continue accelerating across life sciences, pharmaceuticals, and aerospace, organizations are increasingly recognizing that innovation cannot happen in isolation. A recent Forbes ...
A recent survey conducted with BioPhorum members revealed that the most critical aspect of digital healthcare for drug delivery devices. Let's take a closer look.
The FDA proposed on Feb. 22, 2022, an update to the Quality System Regulation 1 that was released in 1996. The proposal is to reference ISO 13485:2016 Medical devices — Quality management systems — ...
In 2023, the FDA made the electronic Submission Template And Resource (eSTAR) mandatory for most 510(k) submissions. Although eSTAR is not an AI tool, the move was the first definitive leap toward the ...
Regulatory oversight and scrutiny of health technology (healthtech) companies has emerged as a priority for the federal government. Charged with mitigating fraud and abuse, protecting consumers, and ...
Surgical navigation and robotic systems are not novel technologies and have had a historical presence since the 19th century. Surgical navigation is a result of evolution from a frame-based stereotaxy ...
Not all use risk assessments are created equal. As a human factors researcher, I have worked with a variety of Use Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (uFMEA) assessments, for a wide range of medical ...
European Medical Device regulations define “benefit-risk determination” as "the analysis of all assessments of benefit and risk of possible relevance for the use of the device for the intended purpose ...