DIA 2019 Global Annual Meeting

Medical device manufacturers rarely like to be compared to their life sciences industry cousins in pharmaceuticals. Yet they could learn a thing or two from the sector which, for the last 14 years, has been subject to the sorts of rigorous electronic reporting standards device producers will now be subjected to. Today, the 2 affiliated industries have a great deal more in common than they realise, and to ignore the parallels and start from scratch with MDR and other standards now being imposed by international authorities, will double the work companies face. AMPLEXOR’s David Gwyn charts the similarities and distils some takeaway best practices.