“Since New Zealand gets the first rays of sunlight, why not be the first to receive the face-2-face training for the new ISO13485 from us?” With the release of the ISO13485:2016 on March 1st, Access-2-Healthcare and Rob Jelas embarked on a journey to engage with the NZ medical device manufacturing industry in an aim to […]
It’s Ready for Publication! Finally, the long-awaited revision of ISO13485 is approved for publication And as I travel around, met people and chatted about the possible impact to the medical device industry and specifically to any organisation’s quality management system, it became apparent that perhaps the process of standards development in ISO and the efforts
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Revision development of the International Standard ISO13485 has reached the final stage, with the voting by the Participating (and Observing) members of the FDIS ongoing till the end of this calendar year (2015). On May 2015, I represented the ISO TC210 Workgroup 1 committee and presented some of the revision highlights in an Asia Pacific Medical Device Forum. They include:
A newbie’s view of a healthcare entrepreneur’s gathering. I became part of the www.meetup.com community out of interest and joined one of the groups “Singapore Medical Technology Entrepreneurs” Well, the name of the meetup group sounds about right for me, and all this is for free, so, can’t go wrong, right? :-)…..what’s next? I actually went to one event
An opportunity came up to help provide clarity on some of the specifics within ISO13485 during a regional conference recently. These slides provide explanation to some of the terms and phrases within the Standard. Hope it helps the auditee and the auditor of any medical device company, or certification company, understand the ISO13485 Standard better.
I remember with fondness of my late mother chatting with me while she was working on her clothes on her Singer sewing machine during my teens, about human relationships. “Know what you want, know what the other person wants. Keep trying till it works and always remember to take nothing for granted” Sound advice for me, which I
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