IMDRF Issues Guidance On Personalized Medical Devices In Response To Tech Advancements

Given that it is now possible to produce individualized medical devices on a commercial rather than an artisanal scale, new measures are needed to keep up with the changing level of risk to patients.

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How should the design of personalized medical devices be regulated when the breadth of variation makes it impossible to fully assess compliance? And how should the production system be regulated for such devices, given the large number of permutations that could occur?

This global conundrum is being tackled in a pre-market application guidance document from the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF)...

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