1st Edition

Excellence Beyond Compliance Establishing a Medical Device Quality System

By William I. White Copyright 2018
236 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Productivity Press

236 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Productivity Press

Many companies limp along from day-to-day treating the quality side of the business as a necessary evil, and doing only what is minimally necessary for compliance to regulations. This kind of approach to compliance almost always results in inefficiencies and sometimes can result in a curious kind of noncompliance. Documentation created with compliance as the sole consideration often ends up... Read more

Chapter 1 The Challenge

Chapter 2 The Path

Chapter 3 Key Decisions

Chapter 4 A Quality Plan

Chapter 5 Documentation, the Big Picture

Chapter 6 Level 1 Documentation

Chapter 7 Level 2 Documentation

Chapter 8 Level 3 Documentation

Chapter 9 Level 4 Documentation

Chapter 10 Fully Incorporating Risk Management

Chapter 11 Implementation

Chapter 12 Maintenance (and Improvement)

Biography

Bill White started Quality System Strategies LLC in 2006 after 30 years at Bayer HealthCare LLC. At Bayer, after 20 years in R&D he worked with colleagues in the mid 1990s to establish the design control system for the diagnostics division. He then became Manager, Quality Systems Strategy, and in that role served as principal architect for the worldwide quality system of the division.

Since retiring from Bayer, he has advised medical device companies ranging in size from a few persons to several thousand persons on how best to fulfill requirements of 21 CFR 820 and ISO 13485 while creating quality systems that serve the needs of the companies and their employees.

Dr. White holds an A.B. in Chemistry from Harvard College and a PhD in Chemistry from Cornell University.