Medtech Connect Episode 4: Intelligent Devices
Executive Summary
In this episode of Medtech Connect, Medtech Insight regulatory reporter Hannah Daniel interviews, Kelliann Payne, partner at Hogan Lovells. Payne advises artificial intelligence (AI) medical device manufacturers with premarket submissions and helps them navigate the complicated regulatory landscape. She laid out the current FDA regulations for AI medical devices and explained the importance of predetermined change control plans, a new cyber regulation from the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023.
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