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We had such a large turnout at our previous webinar, How to Assess Your CER for MDR Readiness, Part 1, and left with some questions unanswered. Therefore, President Laurie Mitchell held a live Q&A to respond to questions regarding CER for MDR Readiness. In this webinar, Laurie delves deeper into some of your pressing questions like:
Who should watch this webinar?
Those Regulatory, Quality and Clinical leaders and regulatory writers who are tasked with the development, writing, review or approval of Clinical Evaluation Reports for EU MDR submission, or anyone interested in learning more about MDR requirements for CERs.
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Author: Suzanne Broussard
Is your organization ready to display to the world your medical devices safety and performance record? The Summary of Safety and Clinical Performance (SSCP) is one of the new requirements imposed by manufacturers by the European Commission in Medical Device Regulations (MDR)2017/745 for implantable devices and class III devices. And, SSPC will go virtual when EUDAMED roles out in 2022.
The SSCP is intended to provide intended users (healthcare professionals, and if relevant patients) with an updated summary of the device’s safety, clinical data, and clinical performance. This enhanced transparency provides everyone with adequate access to the devices clinical data, including your customers and your competitors.
The SSCP should be sourced directly from the technical documentation, including the clinical evaluation report (CER), post-market surveillance, and post-market clinical follow-up (PMCF). And, the SSCP “shall be validated by a notified body (NB) and made available to the public via the European database on medical devices (EUDAMED).” The SSCP must be updated at least annually.
There are added benefits to making the SSCP public knowledge that can benefit manufacturers. Organizations can utilize the public information to their advantage. For example, manufacturers can use competitors SSCPs to:
Deadlines Extended to Allow Citizens Time to Safely Respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The European Commission has proposed to extend the deadline for MDR compliance by one year (at this time waiting for approval by member states and publication in the Official Journal). The launch of EUDAMED has also been delayed. Now, EUDAMED will be launched together with the in-vitro medical devices in May 2022.
The SSCP is still required to be part of MDR 2017/745 even though the launch of EUMADED has been moved back.
A silver lining to the current health crises is that medical device manufacturers now have more time to become fully compliant with the European Commission regulations.
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In this first installment of a 2-part webinar series, Criterion Edge will present strategies for assessing key components of your CER (or CER template) for possible misalignment with significant and applicable MDR requirements. Presented from the perspective of seasoned regulatory writers with deep experience developing MDR compliant CER templates and recent authorship of MDR-ready CERs, this practical presentation will help you assess your document through the critical lens of a writer and identify possible gaps for mitigation before submission to regulatory authorities.
In the second part of this series, we examine the Clinical Data Sources, Equivalence, and Risk/Benefit Analysis Profile sections of the CER.
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Key Takeaways:
• Identify key MDR requirements that are applicable to critical components of a CER
• Apply review strategies to help evaluate your CER for alignment with MDR requirements
• Why organization, structure and clear language really matter in your CER
Who should watch this webinar?
Those Regulatory, Quality and Clinical leaders and regulatory writers who are tasked with the development, writing, review or approval of Clinical Evaluation Reports for EU MDR submission, or anyone interested in learning more about MDR requirements for CERs.
Sign up for future webinars here.
If you enjoyed this webinar and would like a free consultation, please contact us here.
Author: Suzanne Broussard
Post-market clinical follow-up (PMCF) requirements have increased under the newest Medical Device Regulations (MDR) 2017/745. All medical devices will be required to meet these standards, and the deadline is here. The possible 1-year extension for the application of MDR might give manufacturers a little wiggle room to achieve compliance, but not much.
The European Commission (EC) states in a nutshell that one of the reasons for the new regulations is to strengthen post-market surveillance requirements for manufacturers.
The goals for these new regulations are to:
The EC considers these newest regulations as providing extremely important improvements to modernize the current system and, therefore, medical device manufacturers need to make every effort to be compliant or risk further delays in obtaining a CE marking for their device.
In a recent post, we discussed one of the most challenging areas in the CER: Defining Measurable Safety and Performance Endpoints.
The PMCF plan must establish processes that proactively and systematically collect information from a variety of sources. These sources include serious incidents, Periodic Safety Update Reports (PSUR), field safety corrective actions, inputs on non-serious injury, undesirable side-effects, trend reports, literature, databases, registers, feedback and complaint sources form users, distributers and importers, as well as publicly available information on similar medical devices (MDR 2017/745, Annex III).
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Performing a methodologically sound literature review in the early stages of product development, as well as in the later stages, can help reduce most of the inadequacies highlighted by the European Commission in section A6 of MEDDEV 2.7/1 revision 4. Section A6 provides examples of studies that lack scientific validity for the demonstration of adequate clinical performance and/or safety.
Here are the seven areas highlighted in section A6 of MEDDEV 2.7/1 revision 4 that manufacturers tend to have the most problems in proving scientific validity:
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