Cyber Awareness for Consumers

Cyber Awareness for Consumers

Click now to listen to RCA’s Susan Schniepp and Steven Lynn, in this RCA Radio audio update:

 

Personalized Medicine

 

Software as medical device (SaMD) continues to emerge in consumer products, including diabetes and sleep management. When it comes to FDA cybersecurity, every device developer knows the ecosystem is more likely to be wifi-connected than ever before. Cyber awareness involves using design controls to consider a variety of consumer SaMD applications & how they connect to smartphone operating systems and open network solutions. By scaling efficacy technology, or personalized medicine, developers are addressing a rapidly growing segment of healthcare treatment.  

 

FDA Cybersecurity

 

How can regulatory compliance help protect consumers from hackers when forwarding patient info between sources is involved? During a risk assessment, a SaMD consultant might end up looking at every step between the health system provider and convenience of not visiting a clinical environment. Further, as industry leaders who understand how technology can increase the speed of personalized medicine to market, what types of cyber awareness becomes more critical to protecting patients?

 

Home Dialysis

 

One SaMD cybersecurity focus Schniepp has already identified is in the Home Dialysis industry. Medical device manufacturers are continuing to evolve with the demand for smaller prototype devices in general, which may enhance cyber convenience becoming a competitive advantage. However, the commercial cyber threat is permanent and even the largest organizations in the dialysis industry can be a target. 

 

Combination Products

 

Lynn agrees & understands that an FDA combination product strategy will continue innovation by means of software and drug delivery. This fundamental mindset change requires extending the definition of “users” of these connected medical devices. It includes patients and HCPs — but also FDA inspection roles needed during during regulatory compliance (e.g. biomedical engineers, IT engineers).

 

Fixed Dose Combination

 

Any combination device would include cyber awareness practices between medical devices & connected facilities that demonstrate and prove trust. Do the relationships between healthcare infrastructure increase or decrease exposure to disruption? Further, where could any attack surface breach trust and cause harm to the patent (e.g. disrupting a patient dosing device). Cyber awareness understands that intended use of the device must also address the perspective of an unwanted attacker.

 

Regulatory Compliance

 

Lynn & Schniepp both agree on one topic: patient compliance. Any type of medical device software that increases patient adherence during a healthcare routine will be applauded by FDA consultants. FDA SaMD guidance lists the ISO standards and QMS regulations needed for the submission. Accelerating the intended use through increased compliance is a regulatory strategy that can be presented via clinical evidence.   

 

About Susan Schniepp

 

Regulatory Compliance Associates® Distinguished Fellow and the Parenteral Drug Association® (PDA) Chair of Board of Directors, Susan Schniepp, will be presenting a tech talk at INTERPHEX® in April 2023 where you can learn about contamination control strategy, how to identify and assess risk, prepare mitigation pathways, and defining preventive actions associated with contamination in sterile product manufacturing.

 

Sue is the knowledge leader for RCA® and is Chair of the Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) Board of Directors. Sue’s background includes cGMPs, audit readiness, change control, investigations, supplier quality, and batch record review.

 

About RCA’s Medical Device Consulting Services

 

The regulatory process surrounding the medical device industry involves a strict adherence to pre/post market compliance throughout a device’s life-cycle. Even a single compliance issue you have can turn into a significant effect on your business. RCA’s medical device consultants can help guide you through any stage of this strategic process, with capabilities during product development through the regulatory clearance/approval of your product.

 

Our team of over 500 medical device consultant Experts — including former FDA officials and other leaders in the field of medical device regulation — will work with your company to create a quality assurance and regulatory compliance approach tailored to your products and regulatory needs. RCA works with both international Fortune 100 companies and small local start-ups, as well as law firms requesting remediation for warning letters, 483’s, import bans or consent decrees. Very few medical device consulting companies have the same expertise in a variety of medical fields.

 

Cybersecurity

 

For medical device manufacturers, technology can be a double-edged sword. The innovative technologies that elevate the quality of life for patients can also be used to potentially undermine the organization using the device. The consequences can affect the device itself if RCA’s medtech consultants do not implement good IoT cybersecurity and FDA cybersecurity protocols. At Regulatory Compliance Associates Inc.®, we offer a wide variety of services for medical devices security to help ensure that your product is protected from cyber-attacks.

 

With a well-planned design, along with full visibility of product development and the supply chain, RCA’s medical device consultant Experts can help strengthen your device’s cybersecurity posture throughout. We partner with medical device companies for the entire life cycle, including from the development of your product to the regulatory submission services involved with medical technology consulting.

 

Regulatory Affairs

 

Regulatory affairs is Regulatory Compliance Associates®‘s backbone, and we handle more submissions in a month than many manufacturers do in a lifetime. Our medical device regulatory consulting Experts have experience working with the FDA, global regulatory bodies and / or agencies, and notified bodies worldwide. Therefore, you can count on us for in-depth and up-to-date insights which increase speed-to-market.

 

As a trusted regulatory affairs consultant, our FDA veterans and industry experts represent RCA as one of the top medical device consulting firms. We’re here to help you navigate the difficulties associated with new product submissions. RCA’s medical device consulting company has expertise in both the approval process and post-approval support. 

 

  • New Product Approval
  • Post-Approval Support
  • Outsourced Staffing
  • EU MDR

 

Compliance Assurance

 

Increasingly, life science companies are feeling the pressure of greater scrutiny by regulators, and responding by developing sustainable compliance strategies. Whether it’s preparing for an audit, developing a response to an FDA finding, or remediation to an adverse event, Regulatory Compliance Associates® can help.

 

Our network of over 500 medical device consultant & FDA, MHRA & EMA veterans are industry professionals offers a unique blend of expertise. This allows RCA to handle both simple and complex regulatory compliance challenges within medical device consulting companies.

 

  • Gap Assessments
  • Internal Audits
  • Employee Training
  • Notified Body Response

 

Quality Assurance

 

Regulatory Compliance Associates® Quality Assurance services include quality system assessments, strategy, implementations, and identification of quality metrics to ensure continuous improvement, aligning with your business needs and goals. Each RCA medical device consultant is a quality expert with experience spanning major corporations and start-ups. We know firsthand how to achieve, maintain, and improve quality, and we excel in transferring this knowledge to your organization.

 

In the medical devices field, quality assurance (QA) is more than merely ensuring the quality of a finished product. You need the tools to monitor and regulate every process from the design of a new product to continued quality compliance as the device is sent to market. At RCA, we offer you the medical device consultant assistance you need to monitor these processes and ensure quality compliance every step of the way.

 

With more than 20 years experience working with medical device consulting companies, RCA’s trusted medical device quality assurance consultant team is fully equipped to handle your unique QA needs.

 

  • ISO13485 
  • 21 CFR 210
  • 21 CFR 211
  • Outsourced Staffing
  • MDSAP
  • Facility Validation
  • Equipment Validation

 

Remediation Support

 

Regulatory Compliance Associates® Inc. is widely recognized within medical device consulting companies & the life science industry for remediation support. RCA’s ability to help companies successfully resolve complex regulatory challenges have a proven track record of success. Our medical device consulting services include significant experience with the development of responses to 483 Observations, Warning Letters, Untitled Letters and Consent Decrees.

 

Our value goes beyond the initial response by helping companies successfully execute their action plans, develop an improved compliance culture tailored to the needs of their business, and ultimately move beyond the regulatory action to emerge as a stronger business. We negotiate difficult demands of remediation with insight and the clear advantage of our medical device consultant expertise and experience that makes partnering with RCA®  a competitive differentiator in the remediation space.

 

  • Quality System
  • Technical File
  • Design History File
  • Data Integrity
  • cGMP 

 

Strategic Consulting

 

Whether it’s a strategy, a technical plan, or project, Regulatory Compliance Associates®‘s medical device consultancy can help ensure a successful project. RCA’s medical device strategy consulting can deliver your project on time, on budget, and you’re never embroiled in a costly mistake.

 

Our medical device consultant Experts are industry Experts are here to provide the unique insight you need before an M&A deal, through a staffing crisis and in every area of your product’s development and life cycle. As the trusted medical device manufacturing consultants of thousands of companies around the world, we have the knowledge and expertise needed to deliver exceptional results to your business — no matter your size or unique needs.

 

  • Manufacturing Optimization
  • Product Lifecycle Management
  • Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
  • Due Diligence
  • Device Vigilance
  • Product Complaints
  • Medical Information

 

About RCA

 

Regulatory Compliance Associates® (RCA) provides regulatory compliance consulting to the following industries for resolution of life science challenges:

 

 

We understand the complexities of running a life science business and possess areas of expertise that include every facet of R&D, operations, regulatory affairs, quality, and manufacturing. We are used to working on the front lines and thriving in the scrutiny of FDA, Health Canada, MHRA and globally-regulated companies.

 

As your partners, we can negotiate the potential minefield of regulatory compliance and regulatory due diligence with insight, hindsight, and the clear advantage of our unique expertise and experience.

 

  • Founded in 2000
  • Headquartered in Wisconsin (USA)
  • Expertise backed by over 500 industry subject matter experts
  • Acquired by Sotera Health in 2021

 

About Sotera Health

 

The name Sotera Health was inspired by Soteria, the Greek goddess of safety, and reflects the Company’s unwavering commitment to its mission, Safeguarding Global Health®.

 

Sotera Health Company, along with its three best-in-class businesses – Sterigenics®Nordion® and Nelson Labs®, is a leading global provider of mission-critical end-to-end sterilization solutions and lab testing and advisory services for the healthcare industry. With a combined tenure across our businesses of nearly 200 years and our industry-recognized scientific and technological expertise, we help to ensure the safety of over 190 million patients and healthcare practitioners around the world every year.

 

We are a trusted partner to more than 5,800 customers in over 50 countries, including 40 of the top 50 medical device companies and 8 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies.

 

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