A QMS should ultimately help guard against customer harm or dissatisfaction, by guarding against the risk of f...
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A QMS should ultimately help guard against customer harm or dissatisfaction, by guarding against the risk of f...
To launch a medical device in the US, developers must gain FDA permission. For most Class II devices, this inv...
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QC is about detecting defects in your finished product, while QA is about preventing the defects from occurrin...
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30 years ago the FDA introduced robust new requirements for medical device design control following a string o...
A document management system (DMS) is a method of managing, storing and retrieving all the documentation a bus...
In medical device development, document controls are the building blocks of an ISO and FDA compliant Quality M...
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Document controls are a fundamental requirement of every medical device regulatory regime. They are the ‘build...
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IVD device regulation is about upping the bar—it’s about making products to a higher standard and ensuring the...
ISO 9001:2015 and its related quality standards are all based on the ‘Seven Quality Management Principles’ def...
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The EU In Vitro Diagnostics Regulation (IVDR), written in 2017, was developed to replace the existing EU In Vi...
Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) are intended to ensure that pharmaceutical products, medical devices and ot...
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Mention ISO 9001 to most people, or tell them that you implement quality systems, and they'll start glazing ov...
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If you want to develop a Quality Management System that meets the regulation and powers your commercial succes...
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Does your Document Management System (DMS) apply the five Lean principles to the way you work?
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Companies often embark on business process modelling projects with the best of intentions. Modelling may be a ...
For those who need ISO 9001:2015 certification, virtual audits are currently taking the place of face to face ...
Process verification and validation should be a key part of a medical device manufacturer’s QMS. But what’s th...
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Remote collaboration is the new normal and set to be a major feature of the post-Covid world. Workers have fou...
Choosing and installing a med tech eQMS is a resource and time-hungry undertaking. And the stakes are high. If...
Cambridge, UK, 18th Jan 2021: Cognidox, a leading provider of document management solutions for the medical de...
The race for the development of a Covid-19 vaccine has been an incredible story of fast tracked innovation. Th...
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Throughout the med-tech regulatory literature quality systems are cited as the way GxP (current best practice)...
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In a previous blog, we wrote that information findability is as worthy a topic for ISO 9001:2015 standards-mak...
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In a Lean approach to product development, customer value is defined as ‘everything the customer is prepared t...
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