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IVDR, IVDs and mass extinction

More interesting things from the RAPS Convergence conference. If you do anything in the IVD sector in Europe and did not attend that conference, that’s a pity. The program on EU IVD regulation was truly outstanding. I do not often see such a good program on EU IVD regulation in one place – if you […]

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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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Medical devices M&A – data protection

Lately I have been doing a lot of work in medical devices M&A projects, some very big, some quite small and some in between. Everybody seems to be merging with everybody else these days as the bigger companies divest branches to reposition and smaller companies put themselves up for sale. These projects are invariably highly […]

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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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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 […]

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Euro update and Don’t Lose The SME

While the medical devices and IVD regulation proposals trickle through the legislative process and people concentrate on details like I have done on this blog as well, it might be nice to have a higher level picture. So that’s what my UK colleague Alex Denoon and I prepared for a recent webinar, and what we […]

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Happy New Year – with all those developments

The end of the year is upon us, and I’d like to take the opportunity to wish the readers of this blog all the best for the new year, a new year with lots of exciting developments ahead. This post will not be the usual regulatory and legal analysis of rules, but something more forward […]