International Medical Device Regulators Forum

Scoop: Emails show FDA asked Apple to advise on Software as a Medical Device

By Heather Mack 12:35 pm November 28, 2016

As the world’s medical device regulators work to harmonize how best to regulate software as a medical device (SaMD), MobiHealthNews has learned via a Freedom of Information Act request that the FDA invited Apple to join an international task force focused on shaping this future regulatory framework. Apple executives quietly joined a working group within the International Medical Device...

FDA floats new draft guidance, created by international group, on software as a medical device

By Jonah Comstock 04:29 pm October 17, 2016

The FDA has entered into the federal register a new draft guidance pertaining to "software as a medical device" (SaMD). The guidance is presented as representing the FDA's current thinking on establishing clinical evaluation guidelines for SaMD, but is written by an international organization of device regulators, the International Medical Device Regulators Forum, of which FDA is a member. The...