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Data Integrity and Governance for Computer Systems Regulated by FDA

Data Integrity and Governance for Computer Systems Regulated by FDA

During this webinar, we will focus on the importance of ensuring that both structured (e.g., database records) and unstructured (e.g., Word document, PDF, spreadsheet) data are maintained with integrity through their chronological life cycle. This requires recognition that FDA is laser-focused on data integrity issues based on industry inspection trends during the past decade.
FDA’s Guidance for Data Integrity, issued in December 2018, did not include a single new requirement. Instead, it reiterated parts of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFRs) that have been in place for decades, and which industry was failing to meet.

Data Integrity and Governance for Computer Systems Regulated by FDA

Emerging FDA Trends in Computer System Validation (CSV)

The life science industries, including pharmaceutical, medical device, biotechnology, biological, tobacco and tobacco-related products continue to embrace new technology to improve delivery of quality products in compliance with FDA.
We have seen the recent trend in industry toward using cloud-based services, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions, and other technical innovations. More recently, we have begun to see newer, emerging technologies including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) algorithms & Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT begin to find a presence within these companies.
While life science companies tend to lag behind other markets in using these technologies, they are catching up and we are seeing much greater use of AI in the development, testing, release & management of life science products with quality and compliance. This is most predominant in the medical device industry, where we find both medical devices that include software as a product component & Software-as-a-Medical-Device (SaMD) products that function as a medical device without the need for any hardware.