The U.S. FDA’s latest draft guidance for premarket cybersecurity considerations expands considerably on the previous edition, and suggests that the manufacturer’s cybersecurity responsibilities include security in a health care facility’s network.
The U.S. FDA’s latest draft guidance for premarket cybersecurity considerations expands considerably on the previous edition, and suggests that the manufacturer’s cybersecurity responsibilities include security in a health care facility’s network.
The U.S. FDA’s efforts to improve medical device quality includes a recent draft guidance that pertains to the pilot version of a voluntary improvement program, but stakeholders see a number of critical issues with the draft. A coalition of device makers said this pilot program should include disclosure guardrails that parallel similar guardrails provided for medical device reports (MDRs), a provision related to discovery during product liability litigation that is seen as critical if device makers are to take part in the voluntary improvement pilot.
The U.S. FDA is hailing two revised draft guidances it released July 5 as “critical steps” toward implementing the electronic drug tracing requirements of the Drug Supply Chain Security Act.
In keeping with the 21st Century Cures Act, the U.S. FDA issued a draft guidance describing a standards recognition program for regenerative medicine therapies at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research that’s intended to facilitate the development of the therapies and reduce the regulatory burden.
Quantitative imaging (QI) is making an increasingly larger footprint in clinical practice, and the U.S. FDA has rounded out a 2019 draft guidance spelling out the agency’s expectations regarding technical performance assessment of this class of products. Developers of software that provide quantitative data from imaging studies should expect to conduct studies that ensure the software controls for a wide range of sources of error, suggesting that studies of these algorithms could prove expensive.
The International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF) has posted a draft guidance for cybersecurity practices for legacy devices, a nod to the number of older devices that are difficult to secure. This document is a follow-up to a standing IMDRF guidance that spans the product life cycle, but which apparently left stakeholders with a few questions.
The U.S. FDA’s approval, in recent years, of new medicines that can fight certain drug-resistant bugs makes it possible to conduct noninferiority trials of potential antibacterial therapies in patients with infections caused by those bugs since active controls are now available.
In a draft guidance released May 9, the U.S. FDA described the benefit-risk principles it uses when conducting quality-related assessments of chemistry, manufacturing and controls (CMC) information submitted as part of a new drug application, biologics license application or supplement.
