Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 236: Advocating for Accessible Diagnoses with Sydney Severance of Operation Upright
Federal Court Strikes Down FDA Rule on LDTs - Thought Leaders in Health Law®
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 233: Prioritizing Women’s Health Through Innovation with Lindsey Calcutt of Incora Health
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 228: Designing & Manufacturing Auto-Injectors with Kimberlee Steele of SHL Medical
Building a Business at the Intersection of Neurodata and Innovation With Rob Cooley
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 26: U.S. Enforcement Trends Targeting Foreign Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Manufacturers
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 209: North Carolina’s Life Sciences Industry with Laura Gunter of NCLifeSci
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 208: Extended Reality Technology and the ThinkReality Headset with Mattney Beck of Lenovo
AI in the Operating Room: Liability Issues for Device Makers — The Good Bot Podcast
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 201: SHL Medical’s Investment in the Carolinas with Kimberlee Steele of SHL Medical
The FDA's Response to AI Medical Innovation — The Good Bot Podcast
Meet Meaghan Luster: Patent Litigation Associate at Wolf Greenfield
FDA Releases Laboratory-Developed Tests Final Rule – Thought Leaders in Health Law
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 177: Brain Health and Research with Dr. Fridriksson, Neuroscientist, Professor, & Vice President of Research at the Universit
Transparency and the Open Payments Program
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 19
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Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 17
Health + Tech - Improving Cancer Care With Digital Health Tools
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The FDA has finalized its guidance on cybersecurity for medical device premarket submissions, providing additional insight into the agency’s expectations for how manufacturers integrate cybersecurity risk management into...more
On January 7, 2025, FDA published a draft guidance titled “Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Device Software Functions: Lifecycle Management and Marketing Submission Recommendations.” The draft guidance was long-anticipated; it...more
We have been writing about software as a medical device (SaMD) for years, tracking the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) efforts to keep up with the fast-paced development of digital technology, such as launching the...more
On September 27, 2023, FDA finalized its guidance entitled “Cybersecurity in Medical Devices: Quality System Considerations and Content of Premarket Submissions” (the “2023 Final Guidance”). The Final Guidance replaces...more
Artificial intelligence promises to transform the way we live and work and its impact will undoubtedly stretch to every business sector across the globe. This next generation of technology brings exciting possibilities and...more
Software is increasingly used as a medical device, transforming the healthcare industry with the goal of improving patient outcomes. However, developing software as a medical device involves navigating complex and evolving...more
Introduction - Hardly a day goes by when we don’t see some media report of health care providers experimenting with machine learning, and more recently with generative AI, in the context of patient care. The allure is...more
Medtech companies are evolving rapidly as more and more of them develop products that collect and leverage substantial patient and provider data. Companies that once only developed hardware-based solutions for...more
Editor’s Note: We are excited to announce that this article is the first of a series addressing Software as a Medical Device and the issues that plague digital health companies, investors, clinicians and other organizations...more
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare has been growing rapidly in recent years, and AI-enabled medical devices are playing a larger role in patient care. Such devices may use machine learning algorithms to...more
On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed a new statute that will significantly impact medical device cybersecurity regulation. Section 3305 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (“Section 3305”) authorizes the...more
NVIDIA announced in a press release a collaboration with Medtronic to integrate NVIDIA’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology into certain of Medtronic’s products. NVIDIA is a graphics processing unit (GPU) company, and...more
As artificial intelligence technology evolves on a seemingly minute-by-minute basis, the U.S. FDA’s regulatory approach continues to evolve in an effort to keep pace. “The promise of artificial intelligence in medicine is...more
Facing novel, swiftly evolving technologies in the digital health space, the US Food and Drug Administration has been trying to balance fostering innovation with providing reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness...more
The convergence of wearable technology and artificial intelligence systems that can analyze data in real time to optimize health care delivery is generating a new wave of products that raise novel regulatory, business, and...more
The FBI issued a Private Industry Notification targeted to the health care sector on September 12, 2022, warning that it has “identified an increasing number of vulnerabilities posed by unpatched medical devices that run on...more
Part 1 of this article discussed the background and purpose of the EU In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation (EU) 2017/746 (IVDR), the definition of in vitro diagnostic medical devices (IVDs), the risk-based classification system,...more
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and the International Organization for Standards (ISO) recently published a cybersecurity standard that has received limited press but may have a significant impact on...more
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, more people than ever have downloaded and used mobile applications, or apps, to communicate with their doctors, manage prescriptions, and streamline much of the healthcare activity...more
On Friday, March 26, 2021, over 180 attendees worldwide attended McKinsey & Company’s first Global HealthTech CEO Connect of 2021. The discussion focused on regulatory and legal considerations for software as a medical device...more
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a catalyst for medical technology innovation, especially the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). IoMT generally refers to the use of network and cloud technologies to connect medical equipment...more
At the beginning of February, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) appointed Professor Kevin Fu as the first ever Acting Director of Medical Device Cybersecurity. Fu’s...more
The EU Medical Device Regulation goes into application on 26 May 2020, with the In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Device Regulation set to follow on 26 May 2022. These new Regulations bring sweeping changes to the market clearance...more
On April 2, 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA” or “Agency”) proposed a new regulatory framework to address the development and marketing of artificial intelligence and machine learning-based software as a...more
On January 7, 2019 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) issued three new documents related to the Agency’s Software Precertification (“Pre-Cert”) Pilot Program. These documents include (1) the Developing a Software...more