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FDA Issues Two Guidance Documents on Food Allergen Labeling Requirements

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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued two guidance documents, one draft and one final, on food allergen labeling requirements. After reviewing comments, FDA will revise and move questions and answers to the final document, as it deems appropriate. By Sophia R. Gaulkin — Last week, the U.S.

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STAT+: Epic overhauls popular sepsis algorithm criticized for faulty alarms

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Corporate documents obtained by STAT show that Epic is now recommending that its model be trained on a hospital’s own data before clinical use, a major shift aimed at ensuring its predictions are relevant to the actual patient population a hospital treats.

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Enabling More Efficient and Effective C&Q Through GEP

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GEP GPG) updated the definition and understanding of GEP within a regulated industry, establishing GEP as a life-cycle approach supporting the effective, efficient design and delivery of engineered systems and enabling the QRM-based integrated C&Q process. through system acceptance and release). System Life-Cycle Processes.

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FDA Releases Final Guidance on Use of Digital Health Technologies for Remote Data Acquisition in Clinical Investigations

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Baumhardt, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert — As an end of the year gift, FDA finalized its guidance document, Digital Health Technologies for Remote Data Acquisition in Clinical Investigations , in late December. The final guidance provides additional discussion with respect to DHTs that meet the definition of a device.

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FDA Issues Long-Awaited QMSR Final Rule

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Both ISO 13485 and ISO 9000 contain terms and definitions that are referenced within Part 820. includes considerations with respect to documentation, applicable regulatory requirements, design and development, and enforcement. FDA further retained some definitions in the QSMR. Certain definitions are also removed from § 820.3,

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It’s the Law Now –Cybersecurity Information in Premarket Submissions

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The primary vehicle for FDA to request cybersecurity information in premarket submissions has been guidance documents. Note that section 3060(a) of the 21st Century Cures Act in 2016 amended section 520 of the FD&C Act and removed certain software functions from the statutory definition of a medical device.

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Why We All Need Critical Thinking

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Originating outside our industry, and enthusiastically embraced by academic institutions and consultants globally, most of the definitions are somewhat unintelligible and hard to relate back to real life. offers no less than eleven different definitions and three sub-definitions. Critical thinking is one such buzz phrase.