SaMD
We help Medtech companies create and clear Software as a Medical Device (SaMD). We can develop your regulatory strategy, build your software (including AI/ML and cybersecurity), draft your design documents, and submit your FDA 510(k).
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We can be your engineering team or work alongside your existing team. We can develop and get FDA clearance in just a year—all from scratch.
Our solutions range from just our templates and eQMS software all the way to an accelerated on-site visit to get you FDA submitted in as little as two months.
Read More FDA AI Letter Review FDA Hold Letter keeping you awake? We can help squash FDA's concerns. We give you pragmatic answers to FDA's objections—especially around cybersecurity and study design. Read More Cybersecurity Remediation FDA cybersecurity requirements got you worried? Our engineers will do a gap analysis and can even implement the remediation for you. Read More StrategyWe help you determine what is possible with a $250k, $2.5M, and $25M fundraising round. We can design your study, craft marketing claims, find your predicate, and validate it all with an FDA presub.
Read More AI Transformation We are experts at using generative AI tools to help our customers get to market faster. We can 10x your team's productivity too so your organization can stay competitive in the age of AI. Read More Fast 510(k) or De Novo You have a nearly finished product but no documentation, and need to submit a 510(k) ASAP. We use our engineering and clinical expertise to write many of the required documents for you. Read More AI/ML Engineering We built an AI/ML SaMD, did a clinical performance assessment, and got it FDA cleared in just a year. Let's do the same for you. Read More On-demand ConsultingNeed a second opinion? Simply pick a time and required experts for a consulting session.
(Our + Your) Team = Dream Team
Read More Software ValidationOverburdensome V&V can cost you months per release. Let us write your testing plan, write your tests, and run V&V for you.
Read More Independent Design Review Design reviews need to be performed by individuals with an objective lens, ideally by an independent third party reviewer. Such a review ensures compliance Read More Mock FDA SubmissionA failed FDA submission can be a massive setback costing you months to years of time while your company burns cash. We can review your file to save you the trouble.
Read More SMART on FHIR Apps We have experience building SMART on FHIR applications and deploying them on Epic and Cerner EHR. Read More LLM Applications We have experience building LLM powered applications—including fine-tuning. We can provide a regulatory pathway if it is considered a medical device. Read More Device vs non-Device CDS We help you determine if your clinical decision support (CDS) software needs an FDA submission or not. Read MoreSaMD from Idea to FDA in 12 Months
Step 2 - Build
Our cross functional team of engineers, clinicians, and regulatory experts to builds your device.
- We develop AI, algorithms, VR/AR, DTx, CADe/t/x, and full stack web apps.
- We are experts in health IT technologies like DICOM, HL7, FHIR, RIS, PACS, LIS, and EMR
- Our code is 62304, 14971, 13485, QSR, and FDA cybersecurity compliant
- We deploy on web, mobile, desktop, and cloud
Step 4 - Validate
We run verification and validation activities, including the technical / clinical performance assessment necessary for FDA approval.
- We write and execute unit, integration, end to end, manual, white-box, and black-box testing and code inspection activities.
- We collect the data, find the radiologists, manage the study, crunch the numbers, and prepare the report
- We run standalone performance and multireader multicase (MRMC) studies
Step 5 - Submit
We submit to the FDA on your behalf and manage all communications with the agency.
- We submit to the FDA using the most recent eSTAR format.
- Forgot your small business determination? No problem. You can borrow ours.
- We have a company wide FDA email address to ensure fast response times.
- We have a database of FDA objections and know how to respond accordingly
- We defer a percentage of all invoices until you are FDA approved!
Step 6 - Approval and Beyond
Congratulations on FDA approval or clearance! Now let us help you deploy and fulfill your sales commitments
- We manage your QMS and handle audits
- Software development never truly stops. We continue to maintain your code, add more features, and squash bugs
- We are experienced with installing in tightly controlled healthcare IT environments
- We can help you hire your own team and install a culture of quality in your organization
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I worked with Innolitics to develop an application that analyzes MR images of our geometric distortion phantoms. It was a quite challenging image-processing project. In the end my company and Innolitics team were able to meet the challenge and built a quality web UI and a robust analysis pipeline. Innolitics seems like a company that is run by engineers who care about doing quality work.
I engaged Innolitics to develop a companion app for a COVID testing kit sold directly to users. The app's purpose was to walk people at home through using the test kit. Innolitics was a pleasure to work with. They worked systematically, beginning with a planning phase to collect and clarify our user needs and requirements and ending with thorough V&V and documentation. I’m proud of the app we built together and would certainly work with them again.
Collaborating with Innolitics was seamless and productive. Medtech OS resonates with the essence of being crafted by engineers for engineers. The depth of their guidance, peppered with detailed examples, was not just helpful; it was indispensable for our journey.
We really enjoyed working with Innolitics in reviewing our cybersecurity related documentation and compiling a response to the FDA. We were particularly impressed with their knowledge and expertise in the field, and quick turn-around times to our queries. We look forward to working with Innolitics on future projects.
Innolitics' team epitomized proficiency, professionalism, and precision. Their expertise extends beyond FDA regulations, encompassing intricate facets of DICOM, radiology workflows, and adept software engineering. Venturing into this without their support would have potentially stretched our timeline to 9 months or more. Earning the FDA clearance (K231385), for us, is more than just an accomplishment; it's a monumental milestone.
Innolitics's engineers seamlessly integrate with our existing team. They’ve consistently produced high quality work while helping us solve technical problems in the medical imaging space. In particular, they spearheaded development of a large module that extends our existing product suite. This module has since been cleared by the FDA (K153014) and is live at hospitals around the world. Their work on the module involved software development, researching various image processing algorithms, analysis of these algorithms against real-world data, and writing detailed technical documentation of the system that justified its approach to the FDA.
I am superbly impressed by the team at Innolitics. They were able to create a complex medical web application on efficiently and with high quality standards. I was not only impressed with their technical know-how, but also by their excellent communication skills.
I retained Innolitics to create a demonstration app for Android and iOS platforms. They created an elegant design that resulted in a project that was easy to understand and support. I was very impressed by their speed and efficiency, I will definitely be hiring them again.
Innolitics has been invaluable in developing some components of our cloud-based analysis software for preclinical imaging. They expertly implemented an AI tool for the analysis of DICOM data and helped us with training and optimizing a prototype neural network. Their developers work independently, handling complex challenges with ease, and deliver top-quality results. It's been a pleasure working with the dedicated and professional team at Innolitics, and we highly recommend their services.
We commissioned Innolitics to build a dashboard that integrated with our radiation-oncology EMR. Their team’s clinical experience greatly simplified communication and their perceptive questions and suggestions helped us arrive at a better set of requirements for the project. The final result was clean, easy for our doctors to use, and has already improved the efficiency of our workflow.
We’re grateful to Innolitics for their expert help in getting our product 510(k) cleared. Our team was totally focused on other objectives, so we were excited to learn about the Innolitics Fast 510(k) service. Working with them was smooth, and now we have an FDA cleared product!
We partnered with Innolitics to improve and update our team’s analysis software. They have diligently worked to add new features and address the troubled areas of the code to both improve its efficiency, as well as its usability. They work independently solving problems and handling difficult coding situations to deliver quality changes and improvements. These improvements have streamlined our code into a more powerful and concise use interface.
Innolitics is an incredible partner and consistently surpasses our expectations. They have an extremely agile team, adapting to our needs across back-end and front-end tasks seamlessly. When we needed support around ISO 62304 compliance for FDA requirements, they jumped right in and provided us compliant documentation. They also assisted us as we developed a regulatory strategy around FDA Cybersecurity and HIPAA Compliance (K191804). The Innolitics team is efficient, fair, and highly ethical. They are an absolute pleasure to work with.
The work conducted by Innolitics to complete a complex software port of a core module of our clinical product was outstanding. The clinical product must by cleared by the FDA, and as such, we needed the highest quality workmanship, and close collaboration with a dispersed team. Innolitics performed exceedingly well in gathering requirements, researching, developing and implementing a design, and providing test modules and documentation. Their team's understanding of medical imaging analysis software, and FDA quality processes, was key to the success of the project.
I have really enjoyed working with the Innolitics team. We had originally enquired about the Innolitics DICOM conformance statement consulting but expanded them to augment the data engineering team. They helped build out a complex ETL pipeline for AI/ML and helped build out accompanying SOPs for regulatory compliance. They treat our product as if it was their own and integrated seamlessly with our in-house engineering team. Their breadth of knowledge in technical and regulatory matters has helped our team meet deadlines.
I needed a software development partner to write the software, train the AI, and get FDA clearance (K202229). An investor once told me that it would take me $5 million and 5 years to get to where we are now. Innolitics got me here 3 years ahead of schedule and $4 million dollars under budget.
We needed a team that would get it done right the first time and independently. As a physician, I was delighted to work with another physician engineer on the team that was able to implement complex clinical workflows with very little input from me or my team. Innolitics delivered ahead of schedule and exceeded expectations.
We recently got FDA cleared and Innolitics' responses were absolutely clutch to craft the strategy that finally worked. Unlike other consultants, who wanted us to do more work and spend more money on clinical testing, Innolitics found a path of least resistance using a combination of our existing validation and thoughtful responses to FDA. We received the best Christmas present ever – our 510(k) clearance letter.
Thanks to Innolitics, we were able to complete the software documentation for our 510(k) in just 4 months. They flew onsite to absorb how our software worked and provided detailed guidance. Without Medtech OS, training, and support, I can easily imagine the process taking 12 months. Our engineering team was able to focus on feature development instead of being bogged down with documentation. We tried three different consultants before finding Innolitics. None of them could deliver. Innolitics took the reins and made it happen. I don’t see how we would have completed our 510(k) without them.
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If you’re preparing a 510(k) submission, especially for a device containing software, this checklist will help make sure you don’t miss anything.
If you haven’t completed a 510(k) before, it may also help you understand how big of a task it is to put together all of the documentation.
Read MoreMedical device design begins with design inputs. The FDA says developing your design inputs is “the single most important design control activity,” yet writing good design inputs is difficult. This article presents Innolitics’ answers to questions our clients frequently ask us about design inputs. It also analyzes a variety of poorly written example requirements.
FAQs
510(k)s get cleared. PMAs get approved. De Novos are granted. You need one of any of these to legally sell in the US.
If it is your first time and you are doing it without assistance, budget 12 to 24 months depending on complexity and team experience.
Our services vary from intensity, but typically we submit within 2 to 6 months depending on the level of service.
FDA typically writes you a letter with their findings and gives you an opportunity and 180 days to address any deficiencies and respond. Failing that, you can always resubmit but you will have to pay the MDUFA fee again.
Yes, we can also expedite our services for an additional fee.
Yes, we see many whole letters and have strategies to overcome objections with as little work from your side as possible.
Yes
I'm sorry to hear that. Yes, we get this all the time and we can pick up where the previous person left off.
Yes, both from a regulatory and engineering perspective.
It depends. We can share our experiences in a recent FDA presubmission. Please reach out for more information.
Yes. It does not need to have a hardware component to be considered a "device"
Per Section 201(h)(1) of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, a device is:
An instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent, or other similar or related article, including a component part, or accessory which is:
(A) recognized in the official National Formulary, or the United States Pharmacopoeia, or any supplement to them,
(B) intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, in man or other animals, or
(C) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals, and which does not achieve its primary intended purposes through chemical action within or on the body of man or other animals and which is not dependent upon being metabolized for the achievement of its primary intended purposes. The term "device" does not include software functions excluded pursuant to section 520(o).
Our cheapest offering is our templates and example 510(k), which will help you considerably. We have a special discount if you are ok with including links to our website in your publicly accessible device summary.
If it is your first time and you are doing it without assistance, expect 12 to 36 full time employee months of effort.
With our services, expect 2 to 12 full time employee months of effort.
Unlike other regulatory firms, we have software engineers on staff who can provide deeper, more actionable advice for your device instead of just generic guidance that is hard to follow.