Regulation and system for approval and registration of medical devices has been recently revised to expand the related business, and improve the effectiveness of administration and petition handling. According to the revision, the process of approval ...
Regulation and system for approval and registration of medical devices has been recently revised to expand the related business, and improve the effectiveness of administration and petition handling. According to the revision, the process of approval and registration for medical devices with low risk has been streamlined. The object of this study is to provide stable service to the public regarding the review system for approval of medical devices and improve the effectiveness of the process through improving the on-line petition system according to the regulations including the revised medical devise act and business transactions. The system for 79 products (approval; 60 products, registration; 19 products) of the grade 1 or 2 medical devices has been improved through the introduction of approval and registration by the type of the products according to the revised enforcement regulations of medical device act. Thus now the approval and registration by the type of the products is available. In addition, submission dossier for the review of technical documents follows the requirements of Rule 7 in the enforcement regulation of medical device act, and the product registration is considered to be accepted in case that grade 1 document was registered in the on-line petition system. The added items including Product name and product name and the registered identical product and revised items (raw materials, model name, characteristics and structures) were applied to related on-line petition system such as the petition format, application for the product registration and approval, change proposal, product lists, license permits in order to unify data and formats. In addition, item lists arranged simply have been classified and re-organized for convenience of the users. Structured management of database with the standardization of data reported in notes improves search ability and utilization of data. In case of the medical device for approval, the products are classified to identical, improved, and new products according to comparison with currently approved products through the comparison table format in order to improve the effectiveness of review process and reduce petitions. In addition, the format for identical, improved, and new products are concretely differentiated. On-line petition system has been improved including allowing approval and registration by the product type, simplifying the registration process for grade 1 devices, providing different format according to the type of the registered product in review of technical documents. Improvement of on-line petition system suggested by this study will contribute to expand medical device business through improving the effectiveness of review process, and saving time and costs.