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Joe Byrne

Joe Byrne
Joe Byrne is the CEO of Cognidox. With a career spanning medical device start-ups and fortune 500 companies, Joe has over 25 years of experience in the medical device and high-tech product development industries. With extensive experience in scaling businesses, process improvement, quality, medical devices and product development, Joe is a regular contributor to the Cognidox DMS Insights blog where he shares expertise on scaling and streamlining the entire product development cycle, empowering enterprises to achieve governance, compliance, and rigour.

Recent Posts

How can you get your FDA 510(k) submission right first time?

Developers who want to release a medical device in the US need to seek permission from the FDA. Depending on t...

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Automotive chip shortages: Why they mean opportunities for fabless semiconductor companies

The semiconductor shortage continues to ravage many sectors. With its reliance on electronics for driverless t...

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Why not use greenlight guru as your med tech eQMS?

Greenlight Guru has been marketed since 2013 as the first digital eQMS (electronic Quality Management System) ...

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7 risks you run migrating to a med dev eQMS and how to manage them

Migrating to a new eQMS is a big step for any medical device company, with many pitfalls for the unwary. What ...

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Chips with everything? Could you win big in the RISC-V revolution?

The rise of RISC-V seems inexorable. It’s being touted as an answer to the drastic slowing of Moore’s law. It’...

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What is a document control system and why is it important?

Having a document control system in place is a requirement of quality standards and regulations around the wor...

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Cognidox rolls out new training analytics and project cloning features in v10.2

Cambridge, UK, 3 May 2022: Cognidox, a leading provider of document management solutions for the high-tech, me...

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DHF, DMR and DHR. Demystifying FDA medical device development requirements

DHF, DMR, DHR… to the uninitiated they might sound like out-of-town furniture stores or airport codes for exot...

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Quality Control VS Quality Assurance. What is the difference?

QC is about detecting defects in your finished product, while QA is about preventing the defects from occurrin...

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What's a Device Master Record (DMR)? What’s the best way to compile it?

The Device Master Record (DMR) is one of the ‘holy trinity’ of files that developers need to collate and maint...

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Implementing Medical Device Design Controls for ISO 13485 and FDA 21 CFR 820

30 years ago the FDA introduced robust new requirements for medical device design control following a string o...

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8 powerful benefits of a document management system

A document management system (DMS) is a method of managing, storing and retrieving all the documentation a bus...

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What is an Electronic Document Management System (EDMS)?

An Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) is a software that centrally stores and organises documentatio...

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Is it possible? Lean Document control procedures in the life science sector

In medical device development, document controls are the building blocks of an ISO and FDA compliant Quality M...

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4 ways to build an ISO 13485 compliant medical device QMS

Are you looking for ways to build and maintain the most efficient, ISO 13485 compliant QMS as your company con...

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10 reasons fabless semiconductor companies need a document control system

With complexity and costs rising, fabless semiconductor companies need to do all they can to keep their flow a...

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Why not just use Dropbox for your Medical Device QMS?

DropBox is a file sharing platform familiar to millions throughout the world. Once a personal file storage and...

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11 'must have' features of medical device document control software

Inflexible SOPs, complicated interfaces, training and maintenance requirements. Traditional document control s...

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Are you in control? Document lifecycle management software for ISO 9001 compliance

ISO 9001 requires you to control the document lifecycle to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your bu...

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What’s the cost of chaos in a document management system?

Chaotic document management is wasting the time and energy of businesses around the world every year. But in s...

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Why not just use Google Drive for your medical device QMS?

A Quality Management System is a requirement for medical device developers across the globe. But should you bu...

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QMS documentation requirements in ISO 13485

How should you structure your documentation to meet the requirements of ISO 13485?

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What is document life cycle management & why does it matter?

What are the 7 stages of the document lifecycle? Why is managing and controlling the lifecycle a critical part...

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Document control in your medical device Quality Management System

Document controls are a fundamental requirement of every medical device regulatory regime. They are the ‘build...

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How to stop ‘over-processing’ in your medical device QMS

Building a quality management system is never a quick and simple process. But in medical device development, w...

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What is a UK Responsible Person (according to the MHRA)?

Following Britain’s exit from the EU, all non-UK medical device and IVD manufacturers who want to place their ...

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7 Quality Management Principles of ISO 9001:2015 and how to live by them

ISO 9001:2015 and its related quality standards are all based on the ‘Seven Quality Management Principles’ def...

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What is document control?

How much control do you have over the documents your business generates? How much do you need?

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Life after Covid-19 for the IVD (in vitro diagnostics) industry

The Covid pandemic has brought new attention, investment and competition to the IVD sector. But with new oppor...

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EU IVDR (In Vitro Diagnostics Regulation): Time’s running out to comply

The EU In Vitro Diagnostics Regulation (IVDR), written in 2017, was developed to replace the existing EU In Vi...

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8 GMP principles for med tech developers to live by

Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) are intended to ensure that pharmaceutical products, medical devices and ot...

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A 21 CFR Part 11 checklist: 7 key FDA e-signature requirements

How does your organisation authorise, authenticate, document and police the use of electronic signatures withi...

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Why your QMS needs to be an eQMS

If you want to develop a Quality Management System that meets the regulation and powers your commercial succes...

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12 issues with virtual team collaboration tools that you should worry about

As your computer waits to load up Teams, Zoom, Slack, Accello and countless other collaboration apps every mor...

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Can product innovation happen by accident?

Can product innovation really happen by accident? Penicillin, Viagra and the humble Post-It note were all famo...

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How are lean principles embodied in a good DMS?

Does your Document Management System (DMS) apply the five Lean principles to the way you work?

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7 reasons your business process modelling project is doomed

Companies often embark on business process modelling projects with the best of intentions. Modelling may be a ...

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How secure is your virtual collaboration process?

Last year, Slack, Zoom and countless other companies hoovered up business as companies shifted to support new ...

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Preparing for ISO 9001 audits in a virtual world

For those who need ISO 9001:2015 certification, virtual audits are currently taking the place of face to face ...

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Process verification vs process validation for medical devices

Process verification and validation should be a key part of a medical device manufacturer’s QMS. But what’s th...

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Supporting product innovation with document control software

In the history of product innovation, stories of happy accidents abound. The list of inventions stumbled upon ...

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Remote collaboration; risk or opportunity for new product development?

Remote collaboration is the new normal and set to be a major feature of the post-Covid world. Workers have fou...

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6 questions to help you choose a med-tech eQMS

Choosing and installing a med tech eQMS is a resource and time-hungry undertaking. And the stakes are high. If...

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Cognidox v10.1 delivers new features for FDA compliance

Cambridge, UK, 18th Jan 2021: Cognidox, a leading provider of document management solutions for the medical de...

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Electronic VS Digital Signatures? What do you need for a med-tech eQMS?

Would your business benefit from using electronic signatures within your digital quality management system (eQ...

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Precious Cargo: Covid-19 Vaccines and Good Distribution Practice (GDP)

The race for the development of a Covid-19 vaccine has been an incredible story of fast tracked innovation. Th...

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9 ways QMS software helps you maintain & demonstrate GxP compliance

Throughout the med-tech regulatory literature quality systems are cited as the way GxP (current best practice)...

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Bionic pigs are not enough. How to win med-tech investment if you're not Elon Musk

When Elon Musk unveiled his ‘bionic pig’ in an on-line event in September there was much hype and more than a ...

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Knowledge or noise? Managing your company’s structured & unstructured data

Unstructured data present both a compliance risk and a missed opportunity for growing organisational knowledge...

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The 5 Pillars of GMP in the Pharmaceutical Sector

For pharmaceutical and other life science disciplines, the ‘5Ps of GMP’ are a useful way of thinking about the...

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Why document review is critical to successful new product development

Inadequate document review is often to blame for failure in new product development and manufacturing processe...

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GMP v cGMP. What's the difference?

GMP is part of the best practice guidelines (GxP) which the FDA and other official bodies refer to in their re...

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How Lean Documentation Creates Customer Value In The Development Cycle

In a Lean approach to product development, customer value is defined as ‘everything the customer is prepared t...

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How to Ruin a New Product Development Process

It’s much easier to screw up a new product development process than mastermind a successful one. Here’s how.

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What Is cGxP?

cGxP (also known simply as GxP) is an acronym used by the FDA and other regulators within the life science ind...

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