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  • BIA or RA

    Actually, there is no definitive order to perform Risk Assessment (RA) and Business Impact Analysis (BIA), and the choice for one or another will depend on your expectations:

    • By doing BIA first you will have a prioritized list of processes and services that can impact the most of your business in case of disruptive incidents, then you can go to assess the most relevant risks for the most critical processes and services.
    • By doing risk assessment first you will have a prioritized list of risks your organization is most exposed to, i.e., the most potential disruptive incidents, then you can go to assess the impact on business regarding the processes and services affected by those risks.

    Particularly, we prefer to do a risk assessment first, because this way you will have a better impression of which incidents can happen (which risks you’re exposed to), and therefore be better prepared for doing the business impact analysis (which focuses on consequences of those incidents).

    For rating critical services considering the results of a risk assessment, you can consider the value of the risks, or the number of risks, associated with a specific service. For example, you can have a service with two high risks associated with it and other with ten medium risks associated with it. Considering your context, in terms of risks maybe the second service is more critical.

    These articles will provide you a further explanation about risk assessment and BIA:

    These materials will also help you regarding risk assessment and BIA:

  • ISO 9001 Strategic risk assessment

    In this free webinar on-demand - How to implement risk management in ISO 9001:2015 - https://advisera.com/9001academy/webinar/how-to-implement-risk-management-in-iso-90012015-free-webinar/ - I show some examples of determining risks and then acting on them. ISO 9001:2015 mentions risk about:

    • Context interacting with interested parties (clause 6.1)
    • Products and services (clause 5.1.2 b))
    • Processes (clause 4.4.1) 

    Your organization is a set of interrelated processes. Each process is a set of activities that transform inputs into desired outputs.

    ISO 9000:2015 defines risk as to the effect of uncertainty. Because there is uncertainty, sometimes we don’t have the expected:

    • Inputs
    • Activities
    • Outputs 

    What is a non-conformity? We don’t design processes to deliver non-conformities. So, when a non-conformity happens, we have the manifestation of risk. Non-conformities are potential risks that have materialized. Same for complaints.

    Seen in this way, the risk-based approach is a very effective methodology for developing a plan to control a process and its results. The control will materialize, for example, in operations of control, verification, improvements in the process, in work instructions, in improvements in monitoring, in increasing the competence of the participants.

    You can find more information below about risks.

  • Declaration of Conformity according to MDR

    thank you so much.

  • Questions about the implementation

    1. When the ISO needs to be finished / audited? (e.g. when company is founded, when first device is sold or…? – E.g. Section 7: Product Realization is with planning etc. is running right now while the company is not yet founded.

    ISO 13485 must be implemented and certified before manufacturing starts and before you put a medical device on the market. You have to prepare your quality management system like you can start the production right now. Of course, you can have some pilots production conducted, due to perform validations of certain processes, like cleaning and sterilization.

    2. Is English as language enough or is the country language additionally necessary?

    Given that notifying bodies reviewing the quality system according to ISO 13485 are internationally recognized, that they have offices in different countries, English is sufficient.

    3. Is the IVD guideline 98/79/EG (IVDD) and/or German “In-vitro-Diagnostika-Verordnung (IVDR)“ additionally necessary and incorporated in your toolkit? If not, can you recommend a toolkit for this? Background: In simple terms, the product is a special microscope with which a view of a tissue sample can be created and viewed. The interpretation of this image is done by a pathologist (unlike, for example, a blood pressure monitor, where the device interprets something). Staining of the tissue sample is done outside the device using standard procedures/products from appropriate manufacturers (e.g. H&E staining).

    Our ISO 13485:2016 documentation toolkit is prepared for all small manufacturers of medical devices. Since In vitro diagnostic products are also medical devices, our ISO 13485:2016 toolkit is applicable for in vitro diagnostic product manufacturers.

  • ISO 13485 implementation

    With the usage of the Advisera toolkit, you can definitely save a lot of money. Templates are arranged so that they meet all the requirements of ISO 13485 in a logical sequence. Your task is to write down in the documentation the name of a particular job in your company is and possibly to add some specifics. 

    On average, we can say that for the company with 10 employees it will take 3-4 months, for the company with up to 50 employees, some 8-12 months.

    As for the preparation of technical documentation for a Class IIa medical device, it all depends on whether your product is completely finished (or is still in the development phase), and whether you have done all the necessary tests.

    I would like to point out here that if you take the documentation toolkit from Advisera, you are not just getting templates. YOu are also receiving e-mail support, review of the documents, and live on-on-on online consultations.;

    For more information please see the following:

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