Medical Devices and in Vitro Diagnostics: Requirements in Europe

This updatable reference work gives a comprehensive overview of all relevant regulatory information and requirements for manufacturers and distributors around medical and in-vitro diagnostic devices in Europe. These individual requirements are presented in a practice-oriented manner, providing the reader with a concrete guide to implementation with main focus on the EU medical device regulations, such as MDR 2017/745 and IVD-R 2017/746, and the relevant standards, such as the ISO 13485, ISO 14971, among others. This book offers a good balance of expert knowledge, empirical values and practice-proven methods. Not only it provides readers with a quick overview about the most important requirements in the medical device sector, yet it shows concrete and proven ways in which these requirements can be implemented in practice. It addresses medical manufacturing companies, professionals in development, production, and quality assurance departments, and technical and medical students who are preparing themselves for a professional career in the medical technlogy industries.

​Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christian Baumgartner, PhD has been Professor and Head of the Institute of Health Care Engineering with European Testing Center of Medical Devices at Graz University of Technology, Austria. He received his MSc (1994) and PhD degree (1998) from Graz University of Technology, Austria, his habilitation degree in Biomedical Engineering from UMIT, Tyrol, Austria (2006). Diploma in organ and conducting (1998) from the Conservatory of Graz, Austria. From 1998-2002 Dr. Baumgartner held a R&D position at Tecan.com, where he co-developed confocal fluorescence laser scanning systems for microarray applications. From 2007-2008, he joined the Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis, Northeastern University and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, where Dr. Baumgartner worked in the field of bioinformatics for biomarker discovery. In 2009, he was appointed Full Professor and Director of the Institute of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering at UMIT Tirol. Since 2015 he is the Head of the Institute of Health Care Engineering with European Testing Center of Medical Devices at Graz University of Technology, Austria. Dr. Baumgartner is the author of more than 180 publications in refereed journals, books and conference proceedings, and patents and is a reviewer for more than 40 scientific journals. He served as a deputy editor of the Journal of Clinical Bioinformatics, is section editor of Sensors (section biomedical sensors), co-section editor of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics (sensors, signals and imaging informatics), and is an editorial board member of Cell Biology and Toxicology and Methods of Information in Medicine. His main research interests include biomedical sensors, cellular electrophysiology and signal processing, biomedical modeling and simulation, clinical bioinformatics, machine learning and computational biology, and medical device development, safety and regulatory affairs.
Assoc.-Prof. Dr.Jörg Schröttner is currently an Associate Professor at the Institute of Health Care Engineering with European Testing Center of Medical Devices at Graz University of Technology, Austria. He received his MSc (2000), PhD degree (2003) and his habilitation degree in Health Care Engineering (2008) from Graz University of Technology, Austria.

From 2000-2003 Dr. Schröttner held a research and teaching assistant position at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Graz University of Technology, Austria. From 2003-2008 he was deputy head of the Institute of Clinical Engineering with European Notified Body (PMG), where he developed the conformity assessment procedures of quality management systems for active medical devices according to the medical device directives. Since 2008 he is the deputy head of the Institute of Health Care Engineering and in 2014 he became the head of the European Testing Center of Medical Devices, formerly European Notified Body. In view of current socio-demographic developments, Dr. Schröttner’s scientific work deals with methodological, technical, organizational, economic and quality assuring aspects of intra- and extramural health care, with a special focus on patient safety. The goal is to help patients cure or alleviate their illness efficiently, economically, without adverse events and in a quality-assured manner. He is the author of more than 100 publications in reviewed journals, books and conference proceedings, and patents. Dr. Schröttner has also been active in the field of medical device approval at the state-accredited Testing and Certification Body for Medical Devices for over 20 years. He is an expert in the development, manufacturing and testing of active medical devices and is lead auditor for quality management systems according to EN ISO 13485 and EN ISO 9001.

Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Johann Harer studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Graz and law at the Karl Franzens University in Graz. 1980 first industrial experience as developer and project manager at an austrian company. 1986 moved to a leading German company in the field of network and industrial automation. 1990 started at AVL Medical Systems, responsible for business development. Subsequently took over various additional functions, including global system support and product management. 2001 to 2014 at Roche Diagnostics, among others as global head QM of the business unit near Patient Testing as well as head QM & Regulartoy Affairs at Roche Diagnostics Graz. Since 2014 Managing Director at Human.technology Styria GmbH. Regular training and lectures at symposia as well as auditing activities and company assessments within the framework of the EFQM Business Excellence Model.