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FDA Finalizes Cybersecurity Premarket Guidance: What It Means for Medical Device Makers

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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

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FDA Releases Draft Guidance on Submission Recommendations for AI-Enabled Device Software Functions

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On January 7, 2025, FDA published a draft guidance titled “Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Device Software Functions: Lifecycle Management and Marketing Submission Recommendations.” The draft guidance was long-anticipated; it...more

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FDA Needs a New Approach to AI/ML-Enabled Medical Devices

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

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FDA Finalizes Premarket Cybersecurity Guidance for Medical Devices

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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

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ArentFox Schiff Issues the First Global Definitive Legal Guide for Industries Navigating AI

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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

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Navigating the Regulatory Landscape: FDA Approval and Patent Protection for Software as a Medical Device

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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

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FDA Oversight of AI Software Developed by Health Care Providers

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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

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Top IP, FDA, and Compliance Issues for Medtech Companies Transitioning to Data-Enabled Product Solutions

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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

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Software as a Medical Device: Challenges Facing the Industry

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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

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AI & the FDA

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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

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FDA Authorized to Establish New Cybersecurity Standards for Medical Devices: What it Means for Industry

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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

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NVIDIA Collaborates with Medtronic to Build AI Platform for Endoscopy Devices

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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

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The Evolving FDA Regulatory Landscape of Artificial Intelligence

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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

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FDA’s Latest Twist on Digital Health Oversight Brings Big Shift

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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

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Wondering if Your Digital Health Product or Service is Subject to FDA Regulations?

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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

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FBI Issues Notice to Health Industry Highlighting Risks of Unpatched Medical Devices

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

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EU: In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation Entered Into Force (Part 3 Of 3)

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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

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New Standard Maps Medical Device Software Development Standard to Health Software and Health IT Cybersecurity

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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

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Medical Devices in the App Store? U.S. Regulation of Mobile Medical Applications

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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

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Global Healthtech CEO Connect: Software As A Medical Device In The U.S. And EU Recap

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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

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Patent Litigation Considerations For The Internet Of Medical Things (IoMT) COVID-19 Boom

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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

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FDA Appointment Signals Increased Attention on Medical Device Cybersecurity

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

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The EU Medical Device Regulation: What’s Next?

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

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FDA Proposes Regulatory Framework for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Software as a Medical Device

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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

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FDA Tackles Digital Health Software Devices with New Pre-Certification Review Plan

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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

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