Recently, FDA authorized and kicked off a new accreditation program bringing to the medical device industry a new option for medical device testing. The FDA’s Accreditation Scheme for Conformity Assessment (ASCA) Program is designed to streamline the premarket approval process for medical devices and is detailed in a draft guidance released by the FDA on September 23, 2024. The ASCA
Medical Device software continues to evolve and change as do FDA regulations. When it comes to the content of the software documentation requirements for a pre-market submission (510k), the FDA’s last issued guidance back in 2005. However, on June 14 2023, FDA released a new and revised final guidance document which substantially alters software requirements for 510k submissions by changing
In 2011, Marc Andreessen, a venture capitalist, stated “Software is Eating the World”. Ten years later, software development has accelerated and expanded industries that could not have been imagined a decade ago. Automated medical devices are central to this phenomenon and complex software programs with increasingly advanced algorithms are designed to operate with hardware in order to fulfill its intended
In late 2019, the FDA introduced a new Safety and Performance Based Pathway which can potentially speed up the preparation and review process for certain submitters of pre-market notification medical device submissions. This optional pathway was created by the FDA to assist with well understood device types, in which a submitter references device specific guidance’s detailing the appropriate testing standards,
