Medical Devices, Cloud Services and Regulatory Compliance with Ian Sutcliffe


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Oct 23 2024 26 mins  

This video is part of a series of guest expert interviews that we recorded for our new Yale Certificate Program on Medical Software and Medical AI – https://online.yale.edu/medical-software-ai-program.


Our guest is Ian Sutcliffe, who is Principal Solutions Architect at AWS. Prior to that he has many years in the health sciences and tech industry in various software roles as both a developer and architect covering the solution, business and enterprise domains. He also serves on the AAMI Working Group that is developing guidance for the use of public cloud services in medical devices. The video was recorded on September 10, 2024.


00:10 Introduction

02:24 Creating a cloud service at “cloud scale.”

07:22 Dealing with changes in cloud software.

11:25 Automating testing and testing in production

15:00 Distributed systems

16:35 Compliance boundaries, medical device functions and computing environment

20:25 Designing with change in mind (non-monolithic systems)

22:17 Migrating existing systems to the cloud

25:41 Concluding thoughts


Links:

Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI). AAMI/CR510:2021; Appropriate use of public cloud computing for quality systems and medical devices. 2021. Report No.: CR510. Available from: https://array.aami.org/doi/book/10.2345/9781570208225