eCTD has been around for nearly 20 years and we’ve seen how it has transformed the regulatory submission landscape. The next major evolution in electronic submissions will be the transition from eCTD version 3.2.2 to eCTD version 4.0. Read More
The International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) is unique in bringing together the regulatory authorities and pharmaceutical industry to discuss scientific and technical aspects of drug registration. Since its inception in 1990, ICH has gradually evolved, to respond to the increasingly global face of drug development. ICH’s mission is to achieve greater harmonisation worldwide to ensure that safe, effective, and high-quality medicines are developed and registered in the most resource-efficient manner. Read More
A combination of factors has resulted in the shifting timeline of EMA’s implementation of the IDMP data collection. One factor is the pending relocation of EMA due to Brexit. Additional factors include the experience gained from implementation of RMS and OMS projects and the delivery method of the P&SMS project to engage the stakeholders. The result is that previously communicated milestones are no longer applicable – the publication of the EU Implementation Guides (EU IGs) will not take place in 2018 and industry will not be requested to start submitting the product data in a new format in 2019. Read More
EMA will invite industry stakeholders to begin registering their super users and start using the RMS and OMS from October 2017.
Until the registration begins (October) industry stakeholders can view and search public data as guest users. In case of RMS, guest users can view public lists and for OMS, all content can be viewed. The OMS dictionary (list of organizations with associated physical locations) currently only includes NCA organization data and the dictionary will gradually be expanded with new data. Read More
While the opinions about the information model for Regulatory Information Management vary and are subject to many discussions, the one thing most agree on is that promise of regulatory information management (RIM) is that of enabling both compliance and efficiency. Read More
UPDATE (23.06.2017)
On the 20th of June 2017, EMA provided new information to the Industry Change Liaisons as a part of their information cascade.
EMA has formally approved the P&SMS Iteration 1 project covering IDMP compatible authorized Human and Veterinary Products and Substances Management Services and it is underway. Read More
News and updates from the SPOR Task Force Meeting held on 10 March 2017. As previously communicated, OMS and RMS UAT has been kicked off this week and is still expected to go live for the end of May 2017 and the PMS and SMS go-live is still targeted for mid-2019. The good news is this: new efforts are now in place to build out timelines related to the various approval/project steps and the development and finalization of the EU guidance. The intended benefit of this more formalized project management approach is to ensure that the guidances are developed in a way that meets the requirements in terms of technical components and support for overall processes.
As one of the last actions in 2016 (effective December 17, 2016) the FDA enforced some new criteria that will allow them to reject an eCTD submission if there is non-compliance with key study data requirements.
FDA notes in their guidance “The standards apply to the following types of submissions to CDER and CBER:
Gartner, the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company, predicts that IT spending in the Life Sciences sector will reach $54 billion by 2019, growing at an annual average of 5% from 2015-2019, whereas the worldwide public cloud services market was expected to grow by 16.5% in 2016 totaling to $204bn.
