Medical Device Regulatory Compliance Training - Live Webinars, Recordings & CDs

This Medical device training will discuss how to design and implement a comprehensive, streamlined reimbursement strategy. Many companies do not have an individual responsible for reimbursement. This is a huge mistake! Medical device reimbursement is the second largest barrier to market entrance. FDA approval/clearance is NOT sufficient to ensure reimbursement. Strategy must be devised early in a product’s lifecycle to maximize reimbursement. Learn how to design and implement a comprehensive, streamlined reimbursement strategy. Learn the basics of coding, coverage and payment activities.

This FDA validation training will guide you through the validation planning which required meeting the US FDA & ISO 13485 Requirements. FDA Warning Letters and recent high-profile recalls indicate major cGMP deficiencies in many companies. One major failing is lack of sufficient or targeted risk-based V&V planning. Starting with a Master Validation Plan, evaluating its elements against ISO 14971 hazard analysis / risk management, allows development of meaningful product validations. Also: The roles of different V&V protocols; How to employ equipment / process DQs, IQs, OQs, and PQs, against a background of limited company resources (personnel, budgets, time). A matrix simplifies “as-product”, “in-product”, process, and equipment, et al, software V&VT, assuring key FDA requirements are not overlooked. The QMS and 21 CFR Part 11 are considered.

This Cleaning validation training will provide valuable assistance to all regulated companies that need to develop and validate their equipment cleaning processes. This session will address risk-based approaches to cleaning validation studies using ICH Q9 and recent FDA comments and observations as a foundation. Recent FDA warning letters illustrate just how critical good cleaning practices are. Understanding and employing good cleaning practices are instrumental to improving cleaning consistency, quality and traceability. The FDA favors automated CIP systems since they reduce operator variability while enhancing consistency and reproducibility. Our research has indicated that in the last 5 years, cleaning citations were noted in 50% of warning FDA letters. Many cited contamination issues have an element of poor cleaning practices associated with them. Examples include “investigations…did not include an evaluation of the cleaning processes and procedures…to determine if equipment cleaning is effective in preventing cross contamination of the inactivated batches”, FDA Warning Letter, Jan 2008; "vaccine manufacturing plant in Pennsylvania, has been served with an FDA warning letter asking for measures to ensure batches of its flu shot ingredients do not become contaminated again.” Jul-2006..

An overview of ICH risk management techniques and how to apply them to equipment cleaning programs will be discussed. In addition, case studies from manufacturing facilities will be used to illustrate risk-based cleaning validation principles and practices.

This Medical device training will provide valuable assistance and guidance to device companies involved in labeling changes. FDA recently released a final rule regarding the parameters in which a device manufacturer can modify label changes to a product. Specifically, manufacturers can add or strengthen the contraindications, warnings, precautions or adverse reactions sections of labeling via a PMA supplement without prior FDA approval only when such modifications are based on newly acquired information and evidence of a causal association between the product and a safety signal is present. The rule also provides clarification as to what the Agency considers to be new information to be incorporated into a label change. Specifically, new information “must reveal risks of a different type or greater severity or frequency than previously included in submissions” and includes meta-analyses, the new regulation states.” FDA requires that drug, biologics, and medical device manufacturers obtain FDA approval of their warning labels before the drugs or devices are marketed and sold. Manufacturers generally must also obtain FDA approval before making changes to labeling information. However, in limited circumstances, companies can revise or supplement their warning labels prior to FDA approval (through changes being effected (CBE) supplements) to ensure consumers are immediately made aware of newly discovered risks.

The labeling regulations, which became effective in late September 2008, clarify that a manufacturer can make unilateral pre-FDA approved labeling changes “only to reflect newly acquired information” when there is “reasonable evidence of a causal association” between the drug or device and the risk. The final rule defines “newly acquired information” as “information not previously submitted to [the] FDA.” This includes “new analyses of previously submitted data,” such as adverse event reports, new clinical study information, and new analyses that “reveal risks of a different type or greater severity or frequency than previously included in submissions to [the] FDA. Under the final rule, however, a CBE supplement is available only if there is "sufficient evidence of a causal association" justifying the addition or strengthening of a contraindication, warning, precaution or adverse reaction. The FDA explains that the language "sufficient evidence of a causal association" refers to the standards for drugs and biologics set forth in §201.57(c)(6) and §201.57(c)(7).

This course on Implementing Human Factors in Manufacturing provides a comprehensive overview of how to integrate human factors principles into manufacturing processes to reduce errors, improve safety and quality, and enhance operational efficiency. Participants will learn about the types and causes of human errors, ergonomic design principles, human-machine interface optimization, and effective strategies for fostering a culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement. Through interactive workshops, case studies, and practical applications, attendees will gain the tools needed to conduct human factors assessments, design effective training programs, and develop actionable plans for sustainable improvement in their organizations.

This medical device compliance training will be helped to see how to understand the similarities and differences of these two complimentary documents and how to comply with the respective requirements and develop compliant files to address. The U.S. FDA’s Design Control requirements of the QS Regulation mandate the initiation and maintenance of a product Design History File for products to be marketed in the U.S. The European Union’s Medical Device Directive and a company’s Notified Body require a Technical Dossier or Technical File to show compliance to the Essential Requirements of the MDD and associated relavant standards for product to be CE-marked and marked in those countries (and others). Attendees will be helped to see how to understand the similarities and differences of these two complimentarty documents. Attendees will be further helped to comply with the respective requirements and develop compliant files to address either or both.

This Quality management training will show you how to use methods you probably already have in place to create effective preventive action. Linking these on-going tools to your CAPA program will increase the benefit. Many organizations focus on improving root cause problem solving and tracking issues and corrective actions. That’s a good beginning to a CAPA program. But many organizations don’t effectively implement Preventive Action.

This ASTM E2500 training will review how these ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) and ICH (International Conference on Harmonization) approaches can simplify the qualification process. Regulatory groups have responded by providing guidance documents such as ICH Q9: “Quality Risk Management” which encourages a level of risk appropriate to safety and efficacy and provides a toolbox of risk management methods. ICH Q8: “Pharmaceutical Development” encourages the use of scientific methods to mitigate risk through concepts such as Design Space, Quality by Design (QbD), Process Analytical Technology (PAT) and Continuous Verification.

This Contamination-Control training will provide valuable assistance to companies that need to validate their cleaning and disinfection programs.

This CAPA training presentation will review Failure Investigations and CAPAs; it will describe methods for meeting those requirements. Many regulated companies still do not have a robust Failure Investigation and/or CAPA programs. Failure investigations and Corrective and Preventive actions (CAPA) are amongst the most frequently found deviations in FDA warning letters. Companies have procedures but either they are not adequate or are not followed. This CAPA training presentation will review Failure Investigations and CAPAs; it will describe methods for meeting those requirements.

This Webinar will provide a basic and practical understanding of the method and will include both continuous and attribute test methods. All measurements have variation. Identifying the root causes and sources of this variation and finding ways to minimize the variation will result in test methods that one can use with high confidence to test and release acceptable products to the end-user. One of the most common methods used to assess a measurement system’s capability is the Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility (Gage R&R). It focuses on identifying and reducing the variation in the measurement system.

The purpose is to assure that the medical product is designed, manufactured, and distributed in such a manner that the customer receives the safest possible product. This webinar will provide guidance to those responsible for implementation of risk management processes in medical product companies.

This 510(k) Training covers the content requirements of a traditional 510(k) application and covers in detail the recommended 20 sections. This 510(k) Training deals only with those medical devices that require a 510(k) application. All Manufacturers introducing Class II medical devices to the US market must submit a FDA 510(k). It is also required for manufacturers that are changing the intended use of the medical device, or changing the technology of a cleared device such a way that it may significantly affect its safety or effectiveness.

This webinar will provide valuable assistance and guidance to medical device companies that are preparing for CE Mark and ensuring compliance to MDD 93/42/EEC.

This IDE (Investigational Device Exemption) webinar will cover its purpose and preparation recommended subject headings and content Submission and follow up Usage in the clinical trial(s).

This webinar describes the importance of and the key elements in a test method validation, including an understanding of its adequacy, range of detection, accuracy, the precision of measurements, and ultimately its robustness and reliability.

This Medical Device training will describe the information needed to write such protocols, and the basic contents of those protocols. This webinar will provide valuable assistance to all regulated companies that need to validate their manufacturing processes.

This CAPA training provides a process to overcome challenges for Documentation and Conducting CAPA Investigations and integrates FDA requirements and guidelines. "Failure to employ effective CAPA systems can lead to FDA Warning Letters and worse. Accurate documentation is a must – but capturing information from a diverse workforce can be very difficult. Do you have what it takes to meet these challenges?".

Fact: The FDA has noted that 76% of all Warning Letters have CAPA-related issues. This is a significantly large percentage – the results of companies doing a bad job of identifying corrective and preventive actions as well as not validating plan effectiveness.

This session will highlight typical manufacturer pitfalls in designing user studies and usability tests as well as common mistakes and omissions regarding use error in PMA and 510K submissions. This webinar will apply to manufacturers with devices that require user-device interactions to set-up, operate, and maintain the device.

This training course will concentrate on how to prepare for the audit, from language and culture to technical requirements and auditor expectations. Due to the 2005 revisions in the Japanese Pharmaceutical Affairs Law (PAL), the PMDA - Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency - is beginning to step up its scheduling of on-site audits of foreign medical device manufacturers.