Resource Links - Biomedical Focus Web Sites

The links below are to organizations of potential interest to members and the community associated with the biomedical industry. Other general quality-related links can be found under Resources at the Minnesota Section website, www.mnasq.org

OrganizationE-MailLink
 
Advamed www.advamed.com
Providing member medical technology innovators and companies with the advocacy, information, education and tangible solutions necessary for success in a world of increasingly complex medical regulations.
 
American Society for Quality (ASQ) www.asq.org
Serving quality professionals in the United States and worldwide.
 
ASQ, Minnesota Sectionmnasq@aol.comwww.mnasq.org
Serving quality professionals in the upper Midwest (Minnesota, North Dakata and parts of Iowa, South Dakota, and Wisconsin).
 
ASQ, Biomedical Division www.asq.org/biomed
Serving medical device manufacturers and users, hospital and healthcare professionals, regulatory personnel, instrumentation producers and users, government agency personnel, and contractors, consultants and suppliers to these groups.
 
ASQ, Food, Drug, & Cosmetic Division www.asq.org/fdc
Members include quality control and assurance, regulatory and compliance, scientific, engineering, manufacturing, marketing and sales professionals from companies, industry consultants and service organizations concerned with food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and related products.
 
Economic Development Administration, University Centereda@uwstout.edueda.uwstout.edu
The EDA provides service/assistance in management systems to regulated businesses-industry on ISO standards.
 
FDA Sites  
FDA Home Pagewww.fda.gov
Center for Devices & Radiological Health (CDRH)www.fda.gov/cdrh
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr
21CFRwww.fda.gov/cdrh/devadvice/365.html
DSMICA Home Pagehttp://www.fda.gov/cdrh/industry/support/
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
www.fda.gov/opacom/laws/fdcact/fdctoc.htm
Global Harmonization Task Forcewww.ghtf.org
Medical Device Reporting Home Page
www.fda.gov/cdrh/mdr/
MEDWATCHwww.fda.gov/medwatch/index.html
Premarket Approval Informationhttp://www.fda.gov/cdrh/pmapage.html#search
510(k) Information & Releasable Database
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/510khome.html
 
Joseph M. Juran Center for Leadership in Quality
mailto:juran@csom.umn.eduwww.carlsonschool.umn.edu/jurancenter
Advancing the frontier of Quality in business applications, as well as pushing Quality principles into the broader society.
 
MBBNet, U of Minnesota Medical School
 www.mbbnet.umn.edu
Minnesota's virtual biomedical and bioscience community.
 
Life Science Alley (formerly MedicalAlley/MnBio) www.lifesciencealley.com
Recently merged. Medical Alley - a trade organization supporting Minnesota's health care industry. MNBIO-a trade organization serving biotechnology in Minnesota.
 
The Biobusiness Alliance of Minnesota http://www.biobizmn.org/
The BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota™ is devoted to building the bioscience industry, retaining and creating jobs and economic growth, and positioning Minnesota as a global leader in biobusiness.
 
Design of Medical Devices Conference http://www.me.umn.edu/dmd/
Provide a forum to bring medical device designers, manufacturers, researchers, and representatives from the public sector together to share perspectives on medical devices.
 
Biomedical Engineering Institute http://www.bmei.umn.edu/
BMEI is an interdisciplinary research organization uniting engineering and health sciences faculty, and counterparts in the community to create new medical devices.
 
Medsuds www.medsuds.com
A network of medtech, biotech and lif e science professionals.
 
Minnesota Technology, Inc. http://www.minnesotatechnology.org/
Providing consulting and business services, sponsor training and professional development events, and publish magazines and newsletters that combine strategic advice with technology to meet your quality, productivity and profitability goals
 
PERIODICAL SITES  
Compliance Engineering leading compliance resourcewww.ce-mag.com
MD&DI medical device publicatioinwww.devicelink.com/mddi
Quality Digest major trade publicationwww.qualitydigest.com
The Auditor newsletterwww.theauditoronline.com
The Gray Sheet FDA Device Newswww.thegraysheet.com
The Silver Sheet FDA Quality Newswww.thesilversheet.com
 
Regulatory Affairs Professional Society (RAPS)  www.raps.org
A worldwide member organization creating and upholding standards of ethics, credentialing and education for the regulatory affairs (RA) profession within the health product sector.
 
American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) www.astm.org/BOOKSTORE/BOS/1301.htm
Volume 13.01 of Standards from ASTM presents standards and tests for drugs and medical devices. ASTM Committee F04 on Medical and Surgical Materials and Devices has 800 members and meets twice annually.
 
University of Minnesota
Biomedical Engineering Institute
bmei@umn.eduwww.bmei.umn.edu
Guide research projects through the many necessary steps required to take a project from conception to completion. The BMEI provides services for students, faculty, and industry.

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