FDA Compliance

IEC 62304 Compliance

The international standard IEC 62304 – medical device software – software life cycle processes is a standard which specifies life cycle requirements for the development of medical software and software within medical devices.

The IEC 62304 standard calls out certain cautions on using software, particularly software of unknown pedigree or provenance, called SOUP in the standard. The standard spells out a risk-based decision model on when the use of SOUP is acceptable, and defines testing requirements for SOUP to support a rationale on why such software should be used.

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FDA CFR Part 11 Compliance

Manufacturers of pharmaceuticals or medical devices that want to substitute paper records and handwritten signatures with electronic records and electronic signatures must comply with FDA 21 CFR Part 11. Part 11, as it is commonly called, defines the criteria under which electronic records and electronic signatures are considered to be trustworthy, reliable and equivalent to paper records.

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FDA General Principles of Software Validation

The General Principles of Software Validation recommend a comprehensive software development lifecycle (SDLC) that integrates risk management strategies with principles for software validation. The FDA software validation principles are applicable to medical device software or software used to design, develop, or manufacture medical devices. Devices categorized as class II and III, as well as some class I devices are subject to design controls; of these class the following types of software must be validated for FDA approval:

• Software used as a component, part, or accessory of a medical device;
• Software that is itself a medical device (e.g., blood establishment software)
• Software used in the production of a device (e.g., programmable logic controllers in manufacturing equipment);
• Software used in implementation of the device manufacturer’s quality system (e.g., software that records and maintains the device history record).

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