The FDA has announced that it is forming a digital health unit within the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). The digital health unit will develop software and technical expertise to assist manufacturers with devices that incorporate digital health technologies, as well as assessing digital health improvements and monitoring and reporting on the digital...
Part 1 – Medical Device Software, the FDA and the US Congress Preface: In any given 2-week period, an average of 15% to 20% of the applications on my smartphone have new versions to fix software bugs. Others I speak with experience similar statistics. And, that doesn’t include how often my smartphone software crashes while...
Time to Take a Closer Look at FDA MDDS Moves The FDA recently released a new draft guidance document for Medical Device Data Systems (MDDS). The FDA defines MDDS as “hardware or software products that transfer, store, convert formats and display medical device data. An MDDS does not modify the data, and it does not...
Benefits and Risks of Moving to the Cloud, Including Cloud Vendor Selection Migrating to the Cloud: What are the Benefits? According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the cloud is “a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services)...