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About
Computer Software Assurance (CSA) is the FDA's modern, risk-based approach for providing confidence that software used in medical device production and quality management systems performs as intended. Rather than relying on extensive documentation and scripted testing, CSA emphasizes critical thinking, risk-based assurance activities, and the generation of appropriate objective evidence to ensure software quality, data integrity, and regulatory compliance while reducing unnecessary validation effort.
This Computer Software Assurance for Medical Device Production and Quality Management Systems Training Course & Certification provides comprehensive knowledge of FDA CSA guidance, software intended use, risk assessment, assurance planning, objective evidence, data integrity, software lifecycle management, cloud-based applications, automated manufacturing systems, electronic quality management systems (eQMS), supplier-managed software, change management, inspection readiness, and best practices for transitioning from traditional Computer System Validation (CSV) to CSA. Upon successful completion, learners receive a certification demonstrating their understanding of Computer Software Assurance principles and their practical application within medical device manufacturing and quality systems.
- Medical Device Quality Assurance and Quality Management Professionals
- Computer System Validation (CSV) and Computer Software Assurance (CSA) Specialists
- Validation, Automation, and Manufacturing Engineers
- Quality Systems and eQMS Administrators
- Regulatory Affairs and Compliance Professionals
- IT, Digital Systems, and Software Quality Professionals
- Internal Auditors and Inspection Readiness Teams
- Anyone responsible for implementing, validating, managing, or assuring software used in medical device production or quality management systems
What you will learn
Understand the principles of Computer Software Assurance (CSA), FDA guidance, and the risk-based approach to assuring software used in medical device production and quality management systems.
Learn how to determine software intended use, assess risk, define assurance activities, and apply critical thinking to establish appropriate objective evidence for software validation.
Develop knowledge of assurance planning, data integrity, cloud-based systems, automated manufacturing software, electronic quality systems, and lifecycle management using CSA principles.
Gain practical understanding of inspection readiness, documentation, software changes, supplier-managed applications, and transitioning from traditional Computer System Validation (CSV) to Computer Software Assurance (CSA).
Course Syllabus
- A short history of software assurance
- Why the documentation burden grew
- The FDA's objective: quality and safety
- CSA core principles
- CSA versus traditional CSV
- Do not dismiss all CSV practice
- CSA and QMSR
- CSA and ISO 13485:2016
- CSA and 21 CFR Part 11
- CSA and GAMP 5
- The scope boundary that matters most
- What intended use means
- Anatomy of an intended-use statement
- Direct-use software
- Supporting software
- Determining scope: the questions
- Out-of-scope software and functions
- Feature-level analysis
- Worked decomposition: an eQMS
- The ten-step risk sequence
- Step 3–4: failure modes and quality problems
- Step 5: the safety question
- High process risk defined
- Not high process risk defined
- Optional internal risk categories
- Process risk versus device risk
- Linking to medical-device risk
- Risk tools and their limits
- Writing a defensible rationale
- The assurance toolbox
- Matching method to risk
- Robust scripted testing
- Limited scripted testing
- Unscripted testing overview
- Error guessing
- Exploratory testing
- Scenario testing
- Automated testing
- Leveraging supplier activities
- Handling a failed test
- What the assurance record contains
- Digital evidence
- Least-burdensome documentation
- Part 11 and CSA evidence
- Data integrity and ALCOA+
- Review and approval
- Issues and deviations
- SaaS: shared responsibility
- SaaS automatic updates
- Cloud service models
- eQMS under CSA
- Manufacturing systems (MES/ERP)
- Spreadsheets
- Low-code and workflow automation
- Analytics and business intelligence
- Lifecycle assurance
- Change assurance
- Automatic updates in operation
- Transitioning from CSV to CSA
- Updating your procedures
- Inspection readiness: the questions
- Answering an inspector on unscripted testing
- CSA metrics
- Common implementation failures
- 📘 Bonus: Computer Software Assurance for Medical Device Production and Quality Management Systems eBook (Free with purchase)








