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Legal Readiness for AI in Healthcare: A Provider’s Quick Guide

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionize industries and is poised to bring transformative change in healthcare delivery, drug discovery, diagnostics, and data analysis and communication. This technology is...more

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Beyond Safety & Effectiveness: Business Reasons to Prioritize Human Factors in Medical Device Design

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To err is human. We have short attention spans and get distracted easily. We have unreliable memories and forget. We have a limited ability to process information, and we overgeneralize rules-of-thumb to the wrong situations....more

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Life Science Private Equity Risk

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Private Equity focused on investment and operations within the Life Science industry faces significant compliance, operational and business risk due to the heavily regulated nature of the investment targets and portfolio...more

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Addressing Data Integrity Challenges in Medical Device Submissions

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The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) recent rejection of all study data from Mid-Link Testing highlights the importance of using reliable, valid data for medical device premarket submissions. Our FDA/Food, Drug & Device...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

FDA Contradicts Benzene Class Actions, Highlighting Risks of Third-Party Lab Testing

In March 2024, Valisure, an independent quality advocate, filed a citizen petition claiming to have detected elevated levels of benzene in benzoyl peroxide acne treatment products. Valisure’s petition included testing results...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Step by Step: FDA Cracks Down on Unauthorized Medical Device Modifications

The Food and Drug Administration recently issued a Warning Letter concerning unauthorized modifications made to a previously cleared medical device (i.e., 510(k)). ...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

FDA’s Backup LDT Enforcement Method: Specimen Collection Kits

We have written at length about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) actions to promulgate regulations specifying the agency’s authority to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs) as medical devices and to phase...more

McDermott Will & Emery

FDA, OHRP Issue Joint Guidance on Collection of Tissue Biopsies in Clinical Trials

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On January 6, 2025, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) released a joint draft guidance document: Considerations for...more

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GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: New Frontiers and Challenges

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Obesity and diabetes have been two of the greatest public health challenges for decades. Many different diets and fads have promised the public a quick fix and a path to losing excess weight or resolving their diabetic...more

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FDA Reveals AI Development Cheat Sheet in Highly Anticipated Draft Guidances

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Early in the new year, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released two anticipated draft guidance documents focused on artificial intelligence (AI): Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Device Software Functions: Lifecycle...more

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A Model’s Credibility Is in the Details: FDA Draft Guidance on the Use of AI Models in Drug and Biological Product Development

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In January, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued its first guidance on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) models in drug development and in regulatory submissions titled, “Considerations for the Use of...more

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Generative Artificial Intelligence Leveraged to Deliver Healthcare - Legal Risks and Issues

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With daily media reports citing to the explosion of interest in Artificial Intelligence (“AI”), AI start-ups have attracted a huge capital influx. During the last fiscal quarter of 2024 ending on December 31st, investors...more

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The Biden Administration’s Swan Song on Digital Health: Two FDA Guidances on Artificial Intelligence and FDA’s Defense of its...

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In the waning days of the Biden administration, the FDA released a flood of new guidance documents and other agency actions, including several important items related to digital health. On January 7, FDA published two new...more

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Key Takeaways from FDA’s Draft Guidance on Use of AI in Drug and Biological Life Cycle

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued its draft guidance, Considerations for the Use of Artificial Intelligence to Support Regulatory Decision-Making for Drug and Biological Products, on January 6, 2025. ...more

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FDA Issues Draft Guidance for the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Medical Devices and Drug Development

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently issued two draft guidance documents aimed at providing recommendations for the use of AI in medical devices and drug and biological product development.These guidance...more

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FDA Issues Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Device Software Functions Draft Guidance

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued its draft guidance, Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Device Software Functions: Lifecycle Management and Marketing Submission Recommendations on January 7, 2025....more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Bipartisan AI Task Force Report Sets the Stage for Health Care AI Action in 2025

The House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (AI) released a comprehensive 253-page report providing a roadmap for Congress as it develops policies to regulate and optimize the use of this rapidly advancing technology. The...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Three Questions with Sedgwick’s Jeremy Schutz

In this edition of Three Questions, health care & life sciences partner Nate Brown spoke with Jeremy Schutz, director of business development, recall & remediation at Sedgwick, to explore key strategies that pharmaceutical...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

New FDA Guidance on AI and Medical Products

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n March 15, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a paper titled “Artificial Intelligence and Medical Products: How CBER, CDER, CDRH, and OCP are Working Together.” This paper describes the FDA’s strategy for...more

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FDA's Final Device Manufacturing Rule—Not Quite Harmonious With Status Quo

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Amending prior requirements, medical device manufacturers and importers have two years to comply with FDA's Quality Management System Regulation final rule, a similar approach to prior good manufacturing practices but with...more

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Vital Signs: Digital Health Law Update | Winter 2024

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Welcome to Vital Signs, a curated compilation of the latest legal and regulatory developments in digital health. Our lead article reports on HHS' recent final rule on the confidentiality of substance use disorder patient...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

FDA Issues Implementation Guidance on Cybersecurity Requirements for Medical Device Premarket Submissions

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) has issued guidance concerning cybersecurity requirements for certain medical device premarket submissions (the Guidance). The Guidance outlines the implementation of...more

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Can What the Supreme Court Said About Device Clearance in Lohr, a “Derelict on the Waters of the Law,” Finally Be Sunk?[1]

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Even though they are still quoted, statements in Medtronic v. Lohr, which question whether FDA (Food & Drug Administration) medical device clearance is a judgment about a device’s safety, no longer accurately describe what...more

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Transatlantic Legal-Regulatory Update: Live from the Heart of Silicon Valley

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US and EU Life Sciences Law firms Fieldfisher & Gardner Law recently held a CLE event in Silicon Valley covering Healthcare Compliance, Data Privacy and Regulatory hot topics for MedTech and Pharma companies. Discussion...more

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FDA’s New Draft Guidance on Cybersecurity

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The FDA has been continuing to work on protecting medical devices from the threats of cybersecurity. In April of this year, the Agency released the latest draft guidance addressing cybersecurity in the medical device...more

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