Validating a LabVIEW application for medical devices

Question

I am interested in talking with someone who used LabVIEW to validate a medical device. How did you setup the LabVIEW program test sets?

Answer 1

Why stop at VC++, Word or whatever and not require the validation of Windows and the hardware you run your OS on?
In short you don't validate the tools in itself but your application and of course the results it produces. A proper design process starts with a good (and validated) requirements specification. From that you create your application. Then you have a validation specification that describes all the specific steps to verify and validate that your application actually does what it is supposed to do. Here you work with well known devices and DUT's so you have control over the results you expect. And of course everything needs to be documented to the last point. All this specification documents and according validation and reports is what makes development for medical devices more involved and expensive than in some other applications.
Rolf Kalbermatter
CIT Engineering Netherlands
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