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The Weight of Quality Leadership

Navigating Complexity as Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs Leaders

Quality leaders carry a tremendous responsibility. They must ensure the safety and compliance of entire products, a task fraught with complexity that goes beyond human comprehension. A lack of understanding of the intricate processes and critical nature of quality assurance can create a significant challenge for these leaders.

Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management

Ensuring patient safety, preventing software errors, preparing for audits, and maintaining up-to-date documentation – all while managing risks across the SDLC – is daunting. New regulatory requirements, such as the FDA’s cybersecurity guidance, necessitate additional resources and time, placing extra burden on manufacturers.

Traceability

Establishing end-to-end traceability between all requirements, risks, specifications, and tests is a daunting task, especially when risks now include critical cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

Operational Inefficiencies and Process Challenges

Significant time can be lost searching for files, dealing with document version confusion, and handling manual, repetitive tasks (like documentation processes) that divert attention from strategic priorities.

Following Established Procedures

Bridging the gap between quality assurance and development teams, each with differing priorities, is a continuous challenge. Ensuring that all teams, especially R&D, follow the established procedures and SOPs can be a persistent struggle.

FDA Compliance Software

Helping quality assurance leaders build audit-ready medical device software

“The best part of Ketryx is that no one needs to jump from one platform to another. Our developers don’t even need to engage with Ketryx if they’re doing their work in Jira, since Ketryx enforces our QMS there, and Quality can see everything in Ketryx.”

Emre Gültürk
VP of Regulatory Affairs and Quality Systems, HeartFlow