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An introduction to medical device software regulations and requirements to include the latest EU and FDA guidance and risk management.
★★★★★ "Overall this course was excellent, and I found it extremely useful. I would highly recommend it. I ... more (38)"
                        
                            26-30 January 2026
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from £2199
                                        
Master the critical decisions that shape your software’s regulatory success. Every choice you make, from product claims to technology selection and regulatory positioning, can determine the outcome of your market authorisation process. Missteps can mean costly delays, increased development expenses and even denied market entry. This course gives you the clarity and confidence to avoid these pitfalls and ensure your innovation achieves its full global potential.
With emerging technologies such as digital therapeutics, machine learning and cloud computing, navigating the regulatory landscape has never been more complex. Distinguishing medical from non-medical software, defining clinical validation needs, understanding international regulatory differences and meeting diverse market authorisation requirements are just some of the challenges you will tackle.
This course offers a clear, practical understanding of global medical device software regulations. Through expert-led sessions, hands-on exercises and real-world case studies, you will gain the insights and skills needed to confidently steer your software through regulatory pathways and bring it successfully to market.
You will also explore best practices for developing and managing regulated software and learn how to implement them effectively without stifling innovation. Discover how to balance flexibility in the early stages of design with the rigorous oversight needed to deliver a final build that is safe, reliable and fully compliant. This nuanced approach is difficult to master without practical experience and informed guidance, and that is exactly what this course provides.
Led by industry experts with extensive hands-on experience, you will leave equipped with the strategies and knowledge to transform your development process and ensure your products meet the highest standards of quality and safety.
Don’t miss this opportunity to strengthen your expertise and drive successful medical device software projects. Register today to secure your place.
This course is part of our range of Medical Devices training courses
This course covers the foundational principles that apply across all software techniques. For those interested in delving deeper into artificial intelligence, machine learning, and generative AI, we offer the Masterclass: Market Authorisation of AI-enabled Medical Devices. Designed as a natural adjunct to this course, the masterclass builds on the concepts introduced here and explores their practical application in AI-driven healthcare solutions.
                            
                            
                        Koen Cobbaert works for Philips as a quality, regulatory, and standards expert. Through trade associations COCIR and DITTA, he represents the industry at the European Commission and the IMDRF on matters related to software and artificial intelligence. He also contributes to various standardisation organizations focusing on software and artificial intelligence.
In the legislative domain, Koen chairs COCIR’s and DITTA’s software focus groups, representing its members at respectively the European Commission MDCG workgroups on Borderline and Classification and New Technologies and at the international level at the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF) workgroup on artificial intelligence. Koen is also an advisor in the SaMD workgroup at the Global Harmonization Working Party (GHWP). Currently, Koen is engaged in various proposed EU legislation relating to artificial intelligence and data (AI Act, Machinery Regulation, General Product Safety Directive, Data Act, European Health Data Space…). Aside from various publications through trade associations, Koen also edited the book Software as a Medical Device, published through the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS).
In the standardization domain, Koen is a member of CEN-CENELEC’s Industry Advisory Forum, and he is delegated as a Belgian expert to IEC JTC 1 SC 42 on artificial intelligence, CEN-CENELEC JTC21 on artificial intelligence, ISO TC215 JWG7 on health informatics, and to the IEC SC62A Advisory group on Software, Networks, and Artificial Intelligence (SNAIG).
Koen has a Master of Science in electrical engineering and safety risk management. He has over 15 years of hands-on experience establishing regulatory and market-access strategies for medical device software, performing worldwide regulatory submissions, and moderating risk management and clinical evaluation for software applications for general radiology, oncology, neurology, cardiology, orthopaedics, and clinical pathology. He has worked on software applications for pattern recognition, computer-aided detection, reasoning engines, clinical pathways, and other clinical decision support systems, including mobile apps, embedded software, and software operating in the cloud.
                            
                            
                        Zuzanna Kwade is Software Clinical Evaluation Lead at Dedalus Healthcare. Zuzanna holds a PhD in Biochemistry and has 15 years of experience in clinical and medical research. She is the co-author of several white papers on regulatory aspects of clinical research and clinical evaluation.
Since 2016, she has been actively involved in Clinical Evaluations according to MEDDEV 2.7.1 (Rev.4) for multiple devices, including high risk hardware devices and medical software. She also represented COCIR in the European Union Task Force on clinical evaluation of software and co-authored MDCG2020-1 guidance on clinical evaluation of MDSW.
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Overall this course was excellent, and I found it extremely useful.  I would highly recommend it. I wanted to understand the processes for developing compliant medical device software. I definitely got the necessary information to understand this better. Both excellent speakers and clearly extremely knowledgeable on the subject matter. Very impressive. I thought it would focus more on the development process (e.g. detail around how to implement EN 62304), but what this course demonstrated was that there is a lot more to consider. So that was a useful learning experience as well. 
Nov 18 2024
Tom Clarke                             
Director, ISO Sense Consulting Ltd.
Jul 22 2024
Both speakers extremally knowledgeable and fantastic teachers. thoroughly enjoyed the course! Fantastic all around!
Neisha Kearney                             
Quality Associate, Axial
Nov 18 2024
[Speakers had] huge expertises. I accomplished what I wanted to achieve from this course.
Wicem Boumalouka                             
Chef de Projet, Guerbet LLC
Nov 18 2024
It was really good, both speakers tried to keep the audience attention with interactive tasks. As an overall view I am satisfied with the webinar and with the provided training materials, both with the shared information and the information quality.
Szilvia Schmidt                             
AMD Technical Specilaist, B.Braun Medical Hungary Ltd
Apr 24 2023
A lot of information covered areas outside of scope of work but I found it very informative and gave me a good understanding of the entire lifecycle of a medical device.
Steve Casey                             
Embedded Software Engineer, Bedfont Scientific Ltd
Dec 11 2023
Extremely knowledgeable and capable presenters with very informative and well delivered content.
Derek Hoogerbrugge                             
Accenture UK Ltd
Oct 17 2022
Fantastic course. Speakers were quite knowledgeable and were able to transmit the information in a great way. They were willing to answer all of our questions/doubts at any time during the webinar. I found the MD Classification of particular interest.
Samuel Pelaez Machado                             
Software Lead, Neuroelectrics Barcelona, S.L.U.
Oct 17 2022
This course contained excellent content and speakers. I enjoyed that it was interactive with case studies and quiz exercises to keep engagement up and check understanding.
Janine Barnard                             
Regulatory Affairs Specialist, Perspectum
Oct 17 2022
Very good webinar in term of content, presentation and speakers. Lots of extra material made available by the presenters
Didier Gasser                             
Senior Project Manager, Helbling Technik Bern AG
Oct 17 2022
Overall I am satisfied. Well organized and good quality of speakers and materials
Conxi Verdú                             
RA & QA Director, Neuroelectrics Barcelona, S.L.U.
Apr 25 2022
I wanted to learn the nuance of software as a medical device to support my role as a quality engineer for IVD's. I do feel more equipped now to provide recommendations to colleagues and perform my role effectively. The presenters did a great job of keeping the audience engaged through virtual presentations. The breakout rooms and polls were a good opportunity to consider what we'd learnt. It was a very good course, the content was really helpful.
Louise Richards                             
Quality Director, SPD Development Company Ltd
Oct 26 2021
The course covered a vast area, and it was helpful to follow new requirements/changes.
Jitendra Gupta                             
International Medical Manager, Novo Nordisk A/S
Oct 26 2021
Good course
Evie Eccles                             
Quality Assurance and Regulatory Compliance Manager, Blackford
Nov 17 2020
The seminar was very good, the speakers and slides were very professionals and it covers wide aspects of the learned subjects.
Avital Levertov                             
Regulatory Affairs Manager, Elcam Medical Ltd
Nov 17 2020
I think it has been very useful and interesting, and I believe most people has been involved and participating, which makes it lively and helps you keep in the flow when doing online training.
Luis Mancera Pascual                             
Executive Director, Clover Bioanalytical Software, Ltd
Nov 17 2020
I enjoyed the webinar very much, both presenters were very good and showed their depth of knowledge.
Sabrina Solomon                             
Safety Scientist, Ipsen
Nov 20 2019
Both very good and enthusiastic speakers. It is very nice that they work with MDSW and have a lot of examples, which makes it more understandable. I liked the course and learned a lot.
Jennie Mettivier Meijer                             
Project Manager Medical Devices & Quality Systems, BioTop Medical
Apr 29 2019
Good course, very interesting and complete overview with speakers that bring the insights of both an ex-auditor and an industry representative.
Antoine Nguyen                             
Associate Regulatory Program Manager , Roche 
Apr 29 2019
A very worthwhile introduction to the regulatory requirements of medical device software for anyone new to this device type. The course covered a broad range of relevant subjects and was delivered by speakers who were clearly highly experienced but also passionate about the subject matter. I would definitely recommend!
Suzanne Morgan                             
Group Head of Regulatory Affairs, The BBI Group
Apr 29 2019
A good intensive course - I would recommend for my colleagues especially who need a general understanding of MDR impact on medical SW.
Camilla Inesa Cernajute                             
Regulatory Affairs Officer, Oticon A/S
Apr 29 2019
The course is well thought and based on the expert's experiences.
Ana Burman                             
Quality Engineer, Team Consulting
Apr 29 2019
Good
Arun Mahendran                             
Regulatory Affairs Manager, Vision RT Limited
Apr 29 2019
Both speakers were really good and brought the needed perspective to the discussion.
Sandra Beltran Rodil                             
Associate Director, Regulatory Affairs, Teva UK Ltd
Nov 20 2018
Engaging delivery of the subject by speakers who clearly had extensive knowledge and experience of medical device software in a regulatory environment.
Stephen Matthews                             
Validation Consultant, Smart Process Solutions Ltd.
Nov 20 2018
This is one of the best training organised by Management Forum in term of the quality of the content and presenters. I am equipped to do my job!
Cadence Tan                             
Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager, GSK Consumer Healthcare
Nov 20 2018
One of the best training courses I have attended.
Ben Sadowyj                             
Senior Regulatory Assciate - Digital, RB Healthcare UK
Nov 20 2018
A very interesting and informative course. Excellent speakers
Laura Scatizzi                             
Manager, Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
Nov 20 2018
Big thank you to Koen! He shared the latest information of the risk classification guidance.
Marika Miettinen                             
Head of Compliance, Tieto Oyj
May 23 2018
Koen brought a lot of practical industry experience which was extremely useful.
Leon Doorn                             
Sr. QA/RA Manager, Aidence B.V.
Nov 28 2017
A well structured, well presented programme
Peter Ogrodnik                             
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Keele University
May 17 2017
Very good presentation
Massimo Panonzini                             
Inpeco SA
Nov 28 2017
The speakers were knowledgable and interesting.
Cecile Boyer                             
Senior Quality Project Manager, Novartis Pharma AG
Nov 28 2017
Good course. A lot of information in detail.
Jose  Fernandez                             
Certification Manager, McLaren 
May 17 2017
Excellent content - good choice of speakers
Malgorzata Wilinska                             
Research Associate, University of Cambridge
May 17 2017
It was great that both speakers had an understanding of what devices IBA makes and they tried to give suitable answers for our case
Inez Wathion                             
Verification & Validation Officer, Ion Beam Applications SA
Nov 22 2016
Very good
Robert Gay                             
Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager - External Products and Software, Cochlear Limited
Apr 26 2016
Very good, I would recommend this course for beginners and advanced levels
Arnaud Biermann                             
Senior Manager Regulatory Affairs, Anteis SA
Apr 26 2016
The presentations in the folders did not follow the order that was presented by the speakers. Always best to check beforehand with the speakers the order of information as ideally it should match of presentation. This meant we were all looking for the slides whilst the speakers had started, meaning we often missed some important points.
Priti Darjee                             
Associate Director Regulatory Affairs, UK, Teva UK Ltd
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