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Overview of Quality
Management System
(QMS)Yan Chia
November 2021
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Investigate – equipment, process, materials
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How to solve the problems?
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Quality Objectives
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Process & Production Control
Customer Requirements Procedures &
Work InstructionsTraceability – Lot Number Supplier Quality
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Design Control
Risk Management Inputs / Outputs Verification & Validation
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Change Management
Change Management Risk Review
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Resources
Training Work EnvironmentInfrastructure
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Corrective & Preventive Action
Manage Non-conformities Verify EffectivenessProcess Improvement
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Product Surveillance
Complaint Handling VigilanceRisk Monitoring
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Management Responsibility
Management Review Internal AuditInspection Readiness
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Happy customers!
Happy staff!
Happy boss!
5 stars review!
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Advantages of QMS
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How to implement QMS to a
MedTech Company?
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Legislative Hierarchy
Formal, broad description of the
law (mandatory)
Support the Act, providing more detailed
information (mandatory)
Provide guidance to comply with and
achieve goals imposed in regulations
(mandatory if referenced by an Act or
Regulation. Otherwise, voluntary)
Provide guidance to comply with and
achieve goals imposed in standards
(voluntary)
Criteria within an industry (mandatory if
referenced by an Act or Regulation.
Otherwise, voluntary)
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Regulations & Standards
ISO 13485 – Medical Devices QMS
FDA 21 CFR Part 820 – Quality System Regulation
EU MDR – European Medical Device Regulation
IEC 62304 – Medical device software – Software life cycle processes
IEC 62366-1 – Medical Device Usability Engineering
ISO 14971 – Risk Management
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Document System Hierarchy
Describes the QMS & Policy
Describes the processes of the QMS
Used to record the data
Provide detailed information pertaining
to specific events or a series of related
events
Describes the tasks within the processes
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Therac-25 Incident
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1985 – 1987
Therac-25
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What Happened?
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June 1985
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Katie Yarborough, 61
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200 Rads
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Medical Physicist, Tim Still
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PDP-11 Computer
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1990
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2nd incident
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June 1985
Ontario, Canada
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3rd incident
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Yakima, Washington
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4th incident
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Tyler, Texas
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5th incident
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1986
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6th incident (final)
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1987
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Fritz Hager
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Malfunction-25 =
Overdose/ Underdose
Unknown
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“dual-mode” radiation-
therapy machines
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Electron Mode
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X-Ray Mode
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Therac-20
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Hardware Interlock
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Assembly
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What happened next?
The FDA declared the Therac-25 DEFECTIVE
AECL issued software patches and hardware updates which
eventually allowed the machine to return to service
The lawsuits were settled out of court
The problems were solved until…
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Another problem
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January 1987
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Counter-overflow
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Unscanned Beam & Overdose
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Patient died 3
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Where is the responsible
programmer?
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Who’s fault?
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The programmer?
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The Manager?
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The Business Owner?
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Never Blame People,
Blame the System
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Root cause - Company’s system problem
Software requirements and design documentation were written as an after-
thought
No quality systems in place to control the design and development of software
Inadequate testing
Only system-level software testing was performed
No unit level or integration level testing was evident
No plan for regression testing of all software changes
Software’s user interface was confusing to the user
Error messages were cryptic
User manual was difficult to understand – no explanation of the error codes or any
guidance for the user when error codes were displayed
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Root cause - Company’s system problem
Risk assessment
Only performed risk assessment for hardware, not software
Removed the interlock (fuse) in the hardware without doing risk assessment
Assume product is safe purely because prior generation was safe
Design issue
Lack of defensive design (no adequate cross checks, error detection, and error-
handling capabilities)
E.g., when the error message pops up, it should stop the machine from functioning
until certain action is in place
Inadequate investigations or follow-up on complaints
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Root cause - Company’s system problem
Resources
Programmer did not have experience in the Assembly language
Engineers did not have sufficient training
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What happened to AECL?
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What happened to AECL?
Therac-25 discontinued, recalled
AECL dissolved AECL Medical in 1988 and renamed it Theratronics
International Ltd
No longer makes linear accelerators
Despite passing repeated Canadian safety inspections, the company
has suffered through an FDA ban on all its medical equipment from
1991 to 1994
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Changes to the FDA since then
Define more requirements to regulate medical devices, focus on
software
Power to inspect the work of manufacturers, ask manufacturers to
recall products, issue injunctions against distribution of products if
non-compliant
Issue guidance documents
This incident also have an impact on other federal agencies including
the US Federal Aviation Administration and Nuclear Regulatory
Commission – these agencies also govern software-development
practices like the FDA
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Case study gives us the opportunity
to learn from past mistakes
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Over 35 years later, some companies
are still struggling with many of the
same issues as the Therac-25 incident
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An effective QMS will reduce the
product risk to the patient, user and
company
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The QMS wouldn’t work by just relying
on a single person in an organisation
It will only work if everyone is trained
and comply with the QMS