Device Week – May 23, 2016
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
On this week's podcast, we discussed two FDA initiatives related to facility inspections, comments from Jeff Shuren on device evaluation and cybersecurity, an agency postmarket surveillance guidance, device regulation efforts from the World Health Organization and some legal updates.
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