Join me, Leo Eisner, The IEC 60601 Guy, as I lead an interactive and fun workshop at the 10X Medical Device Conference in Newport Beach, Ca on May 7 – 8, 2025. Turn Medical Device Standards into Your Competitive Advantage, and discover practical strategies to leverage standards, avoid costly errors, and accelerate your product development cycle.

Don’t make the 5 costly mistakes companies make with Medical Device Standards. Learn from the IEC 60601 Guy himself.:

• Late Identification of Applicable Standards: Leads to expensive redesigns and delayed timelines
• Ignoring Expert Standards Guidance: Results in regulatory rejections and costly resubmissions
• Unprepared Risk Management File for Testing: Risks unnecessary costs due to lack of strategic planning for compliance.
• Unprepared Regulatory Submissions: Leads to costly setbacks and market-entry delays
• Underestimating Education and Training: Creates knowledge gaps, increasing errors and compliance risks.

I want to thank Sean Smith and his team from 10X for all his help and dedication for putting on this event. He is doing an amazing job and please contact him if you are interested.

Need help with standards?

We provide support for your design and development process for regulatory submissions.? Eisner Safety Consultants can help by

• Assisting with strategic compliance planning for your medical electrical product lines,
• Providing regulatory support when FDA or a regulator asks technical questions on your submission.
• Identification of applicable standards, laws, regulations, guidances, and directives up front to support your design process effectively.
• Design Documentation Reviews providing expert analysis supporting the design development process to avoid unnecessary design and development delays.
• We provide EU, US, and other countries regulatory requirement reviews of standards, laws, directives, and guidance.
• Providing support with Swiss MedDO, EU MDR, clinical evaluation assessment, NB remediation, STEDs, and more.
• Interfacing with test houses for medical safety, EMC and arrange other testing.

Feel free to schedule a web meeting with Leo or contact us.

Draft EUDAMED roadmap (of modules*) was published on 20 Oct 2023 with updated timelines for each module and mandatory use dates for the MDR & IVDR.

Q4’ 2027: Article 123 (3) (d) MDR/113 (3) (f) IVDR

• Actor (Economic Operators register in EUDAMED; Supervising Entities has access to EUDAMED that is not public),
• Certificates (Active, suspended, reinstated, withdrawn, refused, other restrictions on certificates),
• MSU (Evaluation of devices on the market by Competent Authorities),
• Vigilance (& Post Market Surveillance), and
• CI/PS (Before a device is placed on the market – Clinical Investigation and Performance Study)

Q2’ 2029: Article 123 (3) (e) MDR/113 (3) (a) IVDR

• Devices (Based on UDIs registered in EUDAMED) and
• Certificates (see above)

* For a brief explanation of EUDAMED modules refer to the below

Need help with Medical Electrical Equipment standards (60601/80601 series) including Safety/EMC; strategic planning for your medical electrical product lines; need support when FDA or a regulator asks questions for a submission Eisner Safety Consultants experts deal with EU, US, & other country regulatory requirements & standards, laws, directives, and more. Leo Eisner is an expert on standards development and sits on many standards committees. He also has experts on additional standards committees and we all talk to the regulators. He has a team of experts to support your needs. Feel free to schedule a call with Leo or contact Leo at Leo@EisnerSafety.com or through our contact form.

We work with many test labs for Medical Electrical Safety & EMC and can arrange other testing, as well. Please let us know if we can help when you contact us.

The Medical Device Coordination Group (MDCG) is meeting on March 11 & 12th to hold a series of meetings. Part of these meetings includes hearing feedback from industry and Notified Bodies on stakeholder preparedness for the application of the MDR on 26 May 2020.

Some of the topics to be discussed include:

• Updates on MDCG Subgroups
• MDR/IVDR Implementing Acts
• Commission’s Progress report on Notified Bodies designation process under MDR /IVDR
• EUDAMED db – state of play
• Expert Panels – State of play on setting up of Expert Panels

The MDCG will discuss three transitional provisions:

1. Guidance on significant changes [Art. 120.3 (EU) 2017/745] with regard to devices covered by certificates according to 90/385/EEC or 93/42/EEC – for endorsement
2. Class I transitional provisions in Article 120 (3)(4) – for endorsement
3. Guidance on transitional provisions for consultations of authorities on devices containing ancillary medicinal products and on devices manufactured using TSE susceptible animal tissues – for information

Additionally, some interesting topics include:

• Discussions on the developments with regard to guidance on MDSAP (Medical Device Single Audit Programme)
• EU Participation in the IMDRF (International Medical Devices Regulators Forum)

Draft Agendas are available here: 11 March 2020 – MDCG (MDR/IVDR) High Level – Draft Agenda, 11-12 March 2020 – MDCG (MDR/IVDR) – Draft Agenda, and 12 March 2020 – Meeting between MDCG & Stakeholders MDCG (MDR/IVDR) – Draft Agenda

Need help with regulatory, MDR, quality, or compliance support with IEC 60601 series of standards support please schedule a call.