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What are good documentation practices & how can they best be implemented?

Good documentation practices (also known as GdocP or GDP) are guidelines for document management and control d...

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How to scale your medical device consultancy practice

Many medical device consultancy practices work on a fee-based model, helping clients with regulatory and quali...

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How a QMS supports medical device risk management in ISO 13485

A QMS should ultimately help guard against customer harm or dissatisfaction, by guarding against the risk of f...

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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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Document Management and Document Control: Is there a difference?

For some companies simply managing their documentation is enough to support their business goals. But others n...

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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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Take it from me: your medical device start-up needs a Lean eQMS

In this blog, Shaun Knights, Head of Quality at period care company Callaly, tells us why his start-up needed ...

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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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Understanding the regulation: challenges for UK IVD device developers

IVD device regulation is about upping the bar—it’s about making products to a higher standard and ensuring the...

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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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In praise of the Design Review Process

I worked in one of the large Cambridge-based technology consultancies for many years and was privileged to hav...

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Why your company should have a Quality Strategy

I believe that a quality strategy is a vital element to the success of a business. Quality of product and oper...

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11 myths about ISO 9001 - busted!

Mention ISO 9001 to most people, or tell them that you implement quality systems, and they'll start glazing ov...

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Can Product Innovation Tools help you go 'virtual first?'

Colocation was one of the central tenets of the Agile manifesto, but times have changed. With all the new digi...

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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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