Overview: Have you had the experience of guiding a new product through concept, development, and final design, and, while you are preparing the product for US introduction, you suddenly stop dead. It seems FDA has decided your product is a medical device! The basic definition of a medical device is extremely broad, including "instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent, or other similar or related article,...

Overview: I will be going into great detail regarding you practice or business and how it relates to the HIPAA Security/Privacy Rule. Areas covered will be history of HIPAA, privacy vs security, business associates, changes for 2016, audit process, paper based PHI, HIPAA and suing, texting, email, encryption, medical messaging, voice data and much, much, more. I will uncover myths versus reality as it relates to this very enigmatic law based...

Overview: QMS is the catch phrase for accreditation and is the backbone of ISO/IEC Standard 17025:2005. The Quality System Manual (QSM) is the bible in a QMS environment because, much like its predecessor, Good Laboratory Practice (GLP), it contains the policies that the laboratory is expected to follow to achieve quality results. It is in fact only the "what to do" component of a QMS. What is also needed are the "how to do it" or procedures a...

Overview: Software's level of complexity and use is expanding at exponential levels. Likewise the potential risks to health follow suit. Problems with software create a number of different hurdles. Software may be a standalone device, control a device's performance, make calculations, identify treatment options or begin to play a more active role in making clinical decisions regarding patient management and treatment. FDA's risk classification...

Course "Applying U.S. FDA Laws and Regulations to Each Phase of Total Product Life Cycle (TPLC)" has been pre-approved by RAPS as eligible for up to 12 credits towards a participant's RAC recertification upon full completion. Overview: This workshop style training course is supported by comprehensive knowledge of U.S. FDA laws and regulations and 30 year of extensive experience working within in the U.S. FDA regulated industries. In these 2 da...

Course "Requirements for Establishing an Effective Cleaning Validation Program" has been pre-approved by RAPS as eligible for up to 12 credits towards a participant's RAC recertification upon full completion. GlobalCompliancePanel Refer a Friend Program: Any Customer to 3 Referrals "Can Participate 2 Days Seminar for free of Cost Overview: This 2 day course will cover practical guidance on cleaning validation regulatory compliance, in conjunct...

Course "Clinical Research for Cardiovascular Pharmaceuticals: Ensuring Compliance of Traditional and New Cardiovascular Medications" has been pre-approved by RAPS as eligible for up to12 credits towards a participant's RAC recertification upon full completion. Overview: Understanding basic clinical research requires excellent people and project management skills, and very good scientific writing and organization skills. Also paramount is gathe...

Overview: A management system, by definition, is a process by which a function or functions are carried out in an organization by a series of hierarchal documents that are prescriptive, and set a particular path on which the organization manages its day-to-day operations. A management system can be for one function, but more often than not, it incorporates many functions. Functions like accounting, engineering, banking, etc. have their own man...

Course "US Medical Device Regulation" has been pre-approved by RAPS as eligible for up to 12 credits towards a participant's RAC recertification upon full completion. Overview: Break Overnight Clinical Trials IDE Other Export for trials Common problems in trial design and management Post marketing QSR CAPA Reporting Inspections Export for foreign markets Pop quiz Give quiz Discuss questions and answers Why should you attend? Have you had the e...

Overview: The FDA recalls related to software performance are on the increase for at least five years at the time of this writing. Software failures were behind 24 percent of all the medical device recalls in 2011, according to data from the FDA. Similar to hardware, software also has hazards (any source of harm) and hazardous situations which transform a hazard into harm. We must identify hazards and identify what event can turn them into har...