The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued final guidance Monday that explains how medical device manufacturers can use a Predetermined Change Control Plan (PCCP) to update AI-enabled device software functions (AI-DSFs)...more
On August 22, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) issued a draft guidance entitled, Predetermined Change Control Plans for Medical Devices. The draft guidance describes how FDA plans to implement new...more
It is certainly easy, when writing code to accomplish some data science task, to start taking the data on face value. In my mind, the data can simply become what they claim to be. But it’s good to step back and remember the...more
There were so many interesting and significant developments related to the various missions of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) during the last week or so of September 2022 that we decided to create a summary...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had regulated medical image analyzers for more than 20 years under the agency’s most stringent regulatory requirements. But the agency recently reclassified a subset of these device...more
This is the third installment of our year-in-review series covering major developments at FDA. While the previous two installments, pertain to FDA actions on drugs and biologics, this post will address developments related...more
The enactment of the 21st Century Cures Act signaled the close of a multi-year bipartisan effort on Capitol Hill to grant the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) new authorities to expedite product development and reform...more
The summer of 2016 saw a flood of new medical device-related guidance documents coming out of FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). Some of these draft guidance documents, such as those addressing device...more
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP's Food and Drug Newsletter is a monthly update of legal and regulatory issues that affect the FDA-regulated community, including regular updates on legislative initiatives from AGG’s Washington, DC...more
On the same day the Food and Drug Administration issued its revised draft guidance document on when to submit a new 510(k) premarket notification for an existing medical device, it released a similar document specific to...more
FDA released two new draft guidances on Monday, August 8 in an attempt to help device manufacturers determine when a modification triggers the obligation to file a new 510(k) under 21 C.F.R. § 807.81(a)(3). The first draft...more
Many of us remember the classic 1972 Brady Bunch song, “Time to Change,” when Peter Brady sings (as his voice cracks), “When It’s Time to Change, You’ve Got to Rearrange,” channeling its inner Brady, the Food and Drug...more
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued a proposed guidance on August 8, 2016, regarding software changes to medical devices. The proposed guidance relates to requirements for submitting medical device software...more
On August 5, 2016, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) posted two long-awaited draft guidance documents intended to help industry and FDA staff determine whether a new premarket notification (510(k)) is required upon...more