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COMMISSION IMPLEMENTATION DECISION M/575 was issued 14 April 2021: This is a list of standards the EU Commission is hoping to Harmonize under MDR and IVDR. One of the issues is the HAS consultant has issued a negative assessment on
A good summary article on IEC e-Tech News about the IEC 60601 Series Amendments project that published last summer (2020) the General 60601-1, and Collateral standards (60601-1-XX). Please note that you need to read further comments in some of my articles about IEC 60601-1 for IEC 62368-1 and IEC 60601-1-2 for some additional details. One blog post is an article from InCompliance
Essential Performance (EP) initially came into the IEC 60601 series of standards when the 3rd edition of IEC 60601-1:2005 was published. The definition was quite confusing and many manufacturers, regulators and test houses had a hard time with it and how to apply it properly. In 3rd edition (2005) + amendment 1 (2012) some clarification came into play which made it easier to understand but there is still a fair amount of confusion.
1 January 2019 is not far away and the 4th edition of the standard may have a significant impact on the design, testing and documentation of many medical devices that have not met this standard yet. For the US (FDA),
On 2 Nov 2015 FDA issued a draft Guidance document titled: “Information to Support a Claim of Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) of Electrically-Powered Medical Devices”. The Guidance was developed to describe the types of information that the FDA expects to be