No Eudamed, No Problem! Latest Guidance Explains Alternatives While Database Is Built

Lack of an official explanation about how the exchange of critical information will progress pending the launch of the EU’s medical device database, Eudamed3, has left many confused. New guidance lights the way forward.

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Clarification about how the various actors, manufacturers, notified bodies and competent authorities should exchange information in the context of the Medical Device Regulation, pending the official launch of the new version of the Eudamed database, is now available. The Medical Device Coordination Group (MDCG) has endorsed a 31-page guidance on harmonized administrative practices and alternative technical solutions (MDCG 2021-1).

Eudamed Timeframe

Eudamed provides the framework to enable the much-demanded transparency in the new regulatory system. It cannot fully apply until all six inter-related modules are ready.

The guidance explains how the medtech sector can best comply with exchange MDR-related information in the areas of device registration, clinical investigation and vigilance, for example, in the absence of...

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