Agency’s device center holds many reviewers to user fee pre-market time goals as part of employee performance reviews, but the goals are not explicit components of the CDRH director’s performance plan, an inverse approach to that of FDA’s drug center, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Meeting user fee performance goals is an explicit factor in evaluating the performance of many FDA device reviewers and mid-level managers, but it is not in the performance plan for the CDRH director, according to the Government Accountability Office.
GAO examined documentation detailing performance standards for employees at CDRH, as well as at the drug and biologics centers of FDA, at the request of Sens. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla
Post-market surveillance regulations for medtech system users in Great Britain coming into force on 16 June will make new data requirements under new compliance deadlines.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is asking the public to help cut waste across the government’s health agencies. Kennedy announced a 60-day comment period allowing the public to take part in a broader federal initiative to reduce regulations and increase transparency.
The intricate assembly of medical devices, often involving over 1,000 globally sourced components, faces severe disruption due to new US tariffs. These barriers could halt production and devastate small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), MedTech Europe’s CEO, Oliver Bisazza, warns in an interview with Medtech Insight.
With medtech businesses typically managing investment cycles on a three- to five-year basis, local regulatory processes and forward costs of market entry must offer an attractive environment in which companies can plan for growth, says McDermott Will and Emery’s partner and head of healthcare and life sciences, Sharon Lamb. Broad-scale improvements to NICE’s evaluation offerings would similarly enhance the UK’s value to innovators.
In Vivo spoke to the previous commissioner of the US FDA about recent ongoings at the agency, and where he believes policy should be directed for patient and industry benefit.
The World Health Organization is seeking input from stakeholders to create an official definition of the term ‘diagnostics.’ This initiative follows a 2023 resolution aimed at enhancing global diagnostics capacity; the definition, it is hoped, will help drive the creation of effective health policies. Comments will be accepted until 23 May.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is asking the public to help cut waste across the government’s health agencies. Kennedy announced a 60-day comment period allowing the public to take part in a broader federal initiative to reduce regulations and increase transparency.
