05
Feb

Cybersecurity Must Be Offensively Proactive to Protect Your Assets

Interoperability in healthcare has been discussed for decades and is one the greatest challenges to be overcome in medicine.  Not only because technical barriers exist, but because physicians practice medicine and research continue to push the boundaries, creating new terms to be defined and understood.  In addition, the rate of this is accelerating (witness the […]

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04
Feb

Don’t Reinvent the Wheel – Use Your SDLC Infrastructure to Manage Product Change Control

What engineer enjoys writing Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) documents, such as a Software Requirements Specification or SFMEA?  I have yet to meet one that has the passion to sit and document the requirements. While there are numerous purposes and reasons for documenting the requirements, the greatest value is in the process that leads up […]

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02
Feb

Medical Device and Drug Development and Manufacturing Data Governance in the Information Age

It is not uncommon for organizations to have different IT systems for regulatory, product, and organizational information.  Segregating the data, such as the QMS gate reviews, complaints, and adverse event reporting, from the product sales quota and organizational growth projections and actuals keeps regulatory auditors to the task at hand – inspecting the Quality Management […]

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01
Feb

Using AI to Modernize Diagnostic Tools

Machine Learning (aka Artificial Intelligence) has put a spotlight on the importance of algorithms.  While the term algorithm is ancient, meaning “a process or set of rules to be followed in problem-solving operations,” the modern use within refers to the complex way that the software behaves. Before broad adoption of Machine Learning in other industries, […]

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