Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Centerline Biomedical, Lifesignals, Lungpacer Medical, Magstim, Nano-X Imaging.
After raising AU$7 million (US$4.5 million) in is initial public offering on the Australian Securities Exchange last week, Renerve Ltd. is already exploring mainland China for its portfolio of nerve repair and regeneration products.
Beacon Biosignals Inc. can rest easy now that it has received U.S. FDA authorization of its predetermined change control plan for the Dreem 3s, a wearable sleep monitor that conducts electroencephalograms as users sleep. The authorization allows Beacon to incorporate updates to the Dreem 3S sleep-staging algorithm acquired through machine learning without submitting a new 510(k) application.
The U.K.'s Medicines and Health Care Products Regulatory Agency chose five technologies for its AI Airlock pilot program as it looks to understand the best way to regulate artificial intelligence-powered medical devices so that they can be safely deployed across the national health service.
At long last, the U.S. FDA finalized guidance on using predetermined change control plans in submissions for medical devices that include artificial intelligence. The guidance, “Marketing Submission Recommendations for a Predetermined Change Control Plan for Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Device Software Functions,” aims to support the iterative improvement central to many algorithms while minimizing potential issues with safety and efficacy.