The next MediWales seminar focusing on electronics and software in medical devices is free to attend for MediWales members.

We welcome you to attend the Electronics in Healthcare regulatory event to hear an update on new regulations that will impact on the industry, electronic services and new technologies in healthcare.

This event offers the chance to meet experts with a range of valuable knowledge and experience to share, including speakers who work closely with medical device regulators such as the FDA and MHRA and who are currently helping to draft new regulations for devices, software, and medical apps.

Our speakers will also provide insight from the point of view of the manufacturers, design engineers and commercial law firms, contributing to a range of advice relating to electronics and regulations in healthcare from a personal and unique perspective.

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Programme:

09:00 – 09:20 Registration and coffee

09:20 – 09:30 Welcome

09:30 – 10:10 ‘Environmental Legislation and Medical Devices: RoHS, Batteries and WEEE’ Andy Vaughan, Consultant, Standards, ABHI ABHI slides

10:10 – 10:30 ‘The Problem of Causation in Claims for Medical Device Failure’ Paul Llewellyn, Director, Geldards LLP, Solicitor for Medical Device Litigation: defending the producers of allegedly defective products Geldards slides

10:30 – 10:50 ‘Hazardous Substances in Medical Devices: Addressing the supply chain challenges’ Alex Martin, Senior Consultant, Regulatory Compliance, Edif ERA

10:50 – 11:10 ‘Services required to support OEM Manufacturing’ Shaun McBride, Sales and Marketing, Elite Electronics Systems Elite Electronics Systems slides

11:10 – 11:30 ‘Test, Validation and Regulation for Medical Electronics’ Mike Connolly, Sales and Marketing Director, Anecto Anecto slides

11:30 – 11:50 Coffee Break

11:50 – 12:10 ‘Development, Specification and use of Healthcare Software Standards’ David Harvey, Managing Director, Medical Connections Medical Connections slides

12:10 – 12:50 ‘Strategies for Medical Device Software Development’ Anthony Giles, Managing Director, Blackwood Embedded Solutions with Francis Amoah, Product Design Director, Creo Medical Blackwood Embedded Solutions slides

12:50 – 13:10 ‘Safer by Design’ Professor Harold Thimbleby, Techealth, Department of Computer Science, Swansea University

13:10 – 13:30 ‘Introducing ESTnet and Wales Festival of Innovation’ Avril Lewis, Managing Director, ESTnet ESTnet slides

13:30 – 13:45 ‘Yes, you can get a patent for (some) software-based inventions’ Cerian Jones, Patent Attorney, Urquhart-Dykes & Lord LLP, and former Computer Scientist. UDL slides

13:45 – 13:50 Closing statements

13:50 – 15:30 Lunch and networking

Contact Tess to book your place!

MediWales members: Free to attend

ESTnet members: £99 +VAT per person

Non-members: £125 +VAT per person