Expanding The Medtech Toolbox: US FDA's 'Medical Device Development Tools' Program Rolls Out
Executive Summary
Three years in the making, FDA has released a final guidance for medical device development tools that would allow developers to qualify their MDDTs and give medical device manufactures access to new tools that could help them prove safety and effectiveness of their products sooner.
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