Category - eHealth

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Privacy by design and data portability

I’ve often warned medical devices companies that they need to start looking at privacy by design obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation, the GDPR. Engineers at a company where I gave an in-company presentation earlier this year were seriously unhappy that privacy by design obligations can affect both hard and software and that the […]

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Software MEDDEV updated

The Commission issued an updated version of the MEDDEV 2.1/6 regarding standalone software on 15 July. After all the rumors around the difficult discussions surrounding the revision process I was very curious about the changes finally implemented. Unfortunately these changes turned out to be very limited and in my view do not change the scope […]

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Wearables – a seminar about legal and regulatory aspects

Wearables are getting more and more popular and start to move more into the healthcare field by tracking all kinds of data concerning physiological processes and performance. Some companies explicitly want their wearables to be medical devices, others prefer their wearables to stay out of that.  Some companies plan their data protection compliance for personal data […]

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End of year bonanza

Normally one looks back at the end of the year, but I also like to look ahead because there are a lot of developments in EU law that will affect the medical devices industry next year: new rules on cybersecurity, data protection, mHealth and business compliance will put their mark on 2016, additional to the never-ending […]

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The devices have landed – and some promotion

So, it took a while but the devices have finally landed. During the EPSCO council of 1 December it was confirmed that the medical devices policy has indeed moved to DG ENTR. I have also heard Commission officials tasked with medical devices at DG SANCO say they are in transition now. It also became clear […]

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In, on and near body networks EU regulation

I had the pleasure of being invited to speak at the Health IT forum at the MEDICA conference last week on regulation of in, on and near body networks. Most of my day at the MEDICA I spent in the health IT hall, catching up on developments, particularly in the interesting Wearable Technology Pavillion with […]

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Mobile medical apps update from the HIMSS

On Thursday 8 May I presented about EU regulation of mobile medical apps at the HIMSS Mobile Medical Apps roadshow in Berlin. The European Commisison’s Green Paper on mHealth has been hotly anticipated for quite a long time (at least by me!), so expectations were high. So high actually that I have not heard exultantly positive […]

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Healthcare software enforcement alert

If you are active in the medical software field in the Netherlands you may probably be aware already that the the Dutch healthcare Inspectorate IGZ has announced that it will rigorously enforce medical devices law against medical software that they consider a medical device as of 1 January 2014. They have said so pretty clearly […]