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🎄 Wishing you all a Merry QMSmas from Hardian Health. This year, we’ve navigated evolving regulations, supported breakthrough designations, built economic models and worked with pioneers across the healthtech space to help bring safe, effective solutions to market. None of this would have been possible without the expertise and dedication of the Hardian team, whose commitment to excellence drives everything we do. Here’s to 2025 – another year of tackling regulatory challenges and supporting ambitious projects to improve patient outcomes.

How do you keep FDA submissions on track under pressure? Guilford Street Laboratories faced a one-day turnaround on an FDA query during their journey to Breakthrough Designation for PD Predict. With Hardian’s support, they met the challenge head-on, ensuring every detail aligned with regulatory requirements. Seamless collaboration and precise documentation made all the difference, streamlining the process from start to finish. Need a partner to navigate your next regulatory milestone? Contact Hardian today ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ecUMAN9t #HardianHealth #Regulation #Startups #HealthTech #DigitalHealth

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is shaking up device regulations – and your input could help shape the future. A new consultation has been launched tackling pre-market rules for medical devices in Great Britain with a goal of informing new legistation and improving access to safe medical devices. Among the key proposals include: 🔹UKCA marking with proposals to reduce reliance by introducing Unique Device Identification for improved traceability 🔹International reliance with a framework for faster GB market access for devices approved by comparable regulators 🔹IVD classification with updates to risk-based requirements for in vitro diagnostic devices, particularly Class B 🔹Assimilated EU law with an extended transition period for certain EU-derived regulations to ensure a smooth shift to a modernised framework If you’re navigating these changes or simply curious about what’s next, this is your chance to have a say before the January 5th deadline. Find out more and share your views ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d5SbGxeT #HardianHealth #Regulation #Startups #HealthTech #DigitalHealth

Predetermined Change Control Plan (PCCP). I made a mindmap to wrap my head round key points in the recently-published FDA final guidance on PCCP, together with thoughts on how LLM-based AIaMD in particular might be affected, and how we might react under UK & EU regulations. The exercise highlighted to me that the PCCP is itself quite some document; it relates closely to the Intended Use Statement (IUS), always the first submission document that we create with our clients as "Modifications included in a PCCP must maintain the device within the device’s intended use, and as applicable, must allow the device to remain substantially equivalent to the predicate device. "; that design change control needs, in the change impact analysis, the point of whether a proposed change is in scope of the PCCP or out of scope, requiring resubmission like a Special 510(k); and that proposed changes to the PCCP itself (let alone IUS) require a resubmission to the FDA (makes sense). Let's see how that pans out in the UK, as PCCP is mentioned in the public consultation, and in the EU (I haven't opened the consultation questionnaire yet, I must admit, to see if & how PCCP may be mentioned) - can anyone enlighten me please on the EU position, or that of Team-NB or any other such body?

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We proudly supported Guilford Street Laboratories (GSL) in securing FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for PD Predict - the first-ever proteomic diagnostic for Parkinson’s disease to achieve this milestone! Curious about how we made it happen? 👀 PD Predict tackles the challenges of traditional Parkinson’s diagnostics, offering a faster, more accurate blood-based test powered by advanced biomarker analysis and machine learning. When Guilford Street Laboratories needed expert guidance to navigate the complex FDA Breakthrough Designation pathway, they turned to the Hardian Health team. We provided strategic regulatory support, developed a robust Quality Management System, and ensured compliance with evolving AI regulations. As a result, PD Predict achieved Breakthrough Designation faster than most submissions. In this blog, we break down exactly how GSL achieved FDA Breakthrough Device Designation - and how the regulatory team at Hardian made it happen! Read the full blog ➡️ https://lnkd.in/g6KTh5mr #HardianHealth #Regulation #Startups #HealthTech #DigitalHealth

👀 Large Language Models (LLMs) still haven't received the green light for use in healthcare. The FDA’s latest opinion piece highlights a key point: no LLMs have received regulatory authorisation anywhere in the world. With their complexity and potential to reshape healthcare, there’s an ongoing debate on how they should be regulated. Key takeaways include: 1️⃣ Special mechanisms are needed to evaluate LLMs effectively in healthcare 2️⃣ Transparency and rigorous post-market monitoring are essential to ensuring patient safety 3️⃣ Collaboration across developers, regulators, and clinicians will be crucial to get this right As the conversation unfolds, the focus remains on bringing these tools to healthcare responsibly and safely. Read the full article ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eXtikgzb If you’d like to stay up to date with all things AI and regulation, sign up to the Hardian newsletter ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eaF6MMWs #HardianHealth #Regulation #Startups #HealthTech #DigitalHealth

Career Highlight Alert! I am really proud to announce that we have recently received our ISO 13485 certification at CanSense. This is a particularly proud moment for me, taking an academic start up, which originally consisted of 4 founders, a project manager and a technical scientist and then building the QMS, growing the team, and putting in the processes and procedures in place to achieve the requirements of ISO 13485 is immensely satisfying. I couldn't have done this on my own though, Hardian Health has been by my side from the start, we identified a great eQMS provider Greenlight Guru to work with early on, and I have an amazing team of colleagues that have really embraced the Quality culture that we have embedded within the organization. So I thank everyone who has supported this great achievement. Onwards and upwards, as we push on to achieve UKCA, CE and FDA approval for our amazing IVD that is poised to change lives and improve outcomes for people and patients.

The future regulation of medical devices in the UK - the MHRA's public consultation on 'routes to market'. I've reviewed the MHRA's consultation document and submitted my response. I'm impressed: in my view the MHRA has nailed the issues with AIaMD bias & equity (that can be caused by training data that is not representative of UK patient demographics, nor equipment demographics nor clinical practice); also doubts about the robustness of US 510(k). These were my key concerns about international recognition, or as it is now to be stated international reliance, which are the key ones I have in mind as I specialise in SaMD/ AIaMD. I encourage others to reply to the MHRA consultation, by 5th January 2025. I put together the attached mindmap as a resource to give myself an overview of the 'routes to market' and how they relate to AIaMD concepts of Good Machine Learning Practice (GMLP), Predetermined Change Control Planning (PCCP), and generally the impact of AI on regulation. My cnclusion is that the concepts are slowly but surely gelling into a coherent set of rules and guidances - the yellow highlights show my key learnings about how it's all fitting together.

Are your medical devices working as they should? The FDA wants to hear all about it…👀 In the world of healthtech regulation, Medical Device Reporting (MDR) is a postmarket surveillance tool the FDA uses to keep tabs on the performance and safety of medical devices. Why does this matter? Well, MDR acts as an early warning system for detecting issues. It’s a way for manufacturers, healthcare professionals, and patients to report any incidents or problems linked to a device, which in turn informs the FDA's benefit-risk assessments. MDR reporting helps regulators monitor potential safety concerns and manufacturers to act swiftly – whether that means updating labelling, improving designs, or, in some cases, recalling products. In essence, MDR ensures devices on the market are held to rigorous safety standards, prioritising patient protection. Find out more ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e4Hxx2n2 #HardianHealth #Regulation #Startups #HealthTech #DigitalHealth