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Becoming a Regulatory Affairs Professional: 5 STEPS
Regulatory Affairs (RA) professionals play an important role in the medtech industry yet they are not so often heard of. The role of the...
Tiyese Jeranji
Mar 19, 20222 min read
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South Africa’s Home Grown Covid-19 Antigen Test Kit: a Game Changer for Africa
There are times when life teaches us what is truly valuable. Like coming out intact on the other side of a pandemic where phrases such as...

Carol Gachiengo
Mar 9, 20224 min read
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The Case for an African Medical Devices Regulatory System
Imagine the predicament of a hairstylist in Africa who found the only tools available were those developed for styling hair in Europe. Or...

Hervé Mwamba
Feb 17, 20225 min read
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Can Music Really be Thy Medicine
A bit of History We’ve all heard of food as medicine, thanks to the famous quote attributed to Hippocrates, the founder of Western...

Carol Gachiengo
Feb 16, 20224 min read
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Medtech regulation in 2021 and beyond: what's unfolded and what's to come
If necessity is the mother of invention, then crisis is perhaps its father, for some of the greatest human innovations have been sired in...

Carol Gachiengo
Jan 3, 20226 min read
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What if personnel training was child's play for Medtech companies?
In recent years, the medical device quality, regulatory, and clinical environment has evolved tremendously. Continuous training has...

Hervé Mwamba
Oct 7, 20214 min read
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Is my software a medical device under European regulation?
After entering into force on 26 May, the EU MDR still presents areas of ambiguity. Such is the case for requirements concerning the...

Hervé Mwamba
Jul 2, 20214 min read
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How Medical Device Classification Works
Device classification is one of the initial activities in the lifecycle of your product. This step informs the extent to which a specific...

Hervé Mwamba
Jun 25, 20212 min read
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MDR Is Here. So What Now?
For the past four years, the medtech world has been on its toes, sometimes nervously, in anticipation of the European Medical Device...

Hervé Mwamba
Jun 3, 20213 min read
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Selling Medical Devices in South Africa: PART 1
Getting medical devices on the South African market has become a hot topic lately. This article is the first of a series of articles on...

Hervé Mwamba
Apr 8, 20213 min read
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Technical Documentation and Medical Device Regulation: new developments
The evaluation of technical documentation (TD) by a notified body is the central element of the conformity assessment procedure towards...

Hervé Mwamba
Mar 11, 20214 min read
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Does too much Regulation Kill Innovation?
We have all come to love the idea of innovation. Whether we're hearing about it in the healthcare industry or fintech, innovation has...

Hervé Mwamba
Feb 12, 20213 min read
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FDA's Plan for AI and Machine Learning
The Food and Drug Association, more commonly known as the FDA, is the oldest consumer protection agency and is part of the U.S Department...

Hervé Mwamba
Jan 21, 20213 min read
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What You Need To Know About the MDR Remote Audit Notice
The Medical Device Regulation (Regulation EU 2017/745), or MDR if you like abbreviations, is still planned to come into application on 26...

Hervé Mwamba
Jan 14, 20213 min read
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Winners and Losers of 2020 and Top Trends to Expect in 2021
I love the start of a new year for two reasons. Firstly, it always feels like a clean slate, in some way or another (given the obstacles...

Hervé Mwamba
Jan 7, 20215 min read
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Transitioning to the European Medical Device Regulation: an Overview
As the year comes to an end, I thought it would be fitting to give a breakdown of the European Medical Device Regulation (MDR) and what...

Hervé Mwamba
Dec 24, 20206 min read
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Why you Need to switch to an eQMS solution
We've certainly come a long way. This statement means something different to all of us, but we can all agree that almost every area in...

Hervé Mwamba
Dec 7, 20203 min read
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A Brief Case for Artificial Intelligence in healthcare
We can all recognize that COVID-19 has given us a clear reminder of the increasing cost of healthcare, both locally and globally. With...

Hervé Mwamba
Dec 5, 20202 min read
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Why the CE Mark Matters
Product and service development are at the heart of customer satisfaction. In an ideal world it all begins with someone (say, person A)...

Hervé Mwamba
Sep 1, 20205 min read
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How robots can help South Africa get back to "normal"​
We are living in a world where uncertainty has become the new normal, where Zoom calls have taken the place of the board room, and where...

Hervé Mwamba
Aug 27, 20205 min read
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