On the New FDA Guidance on Software Assurance

On September 13 2022, the FDA issued a new draft guidance on “Computer Software Assurance for Production and Quality System Software”. This new guidance is intended to supplement the current approach described in the 2002 “General Principles of Software Validation” guidance. This guidance additionally discusses specific risk considerations, acceptable testing methods, and efficient generation of […]

Introducing the Cloud eQMS Solution for Confluence

Why Confluence? Or perhaps the first question should be – why quality management? Most medical device companies need to have a compliant quality management system in place to assure consistent quality of their product. Quality management system consists of a number of written procedures and a multitude of records that will be generated during the […]

What is Software Tool Validation?

Modern medical device regulations are putting more and more emphasis on the management of software tools. These tools are software packages that are not part of the medical devices themselves, but support the device during its lifecycle. Nowadays companies use dozens of applications, ranging from accounting tools to email clients to software compilers. Of course […]