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For Better Risk Analysis, Stop Keeping Score
Risk scores often distract from the valuable information needed to make decisions. Instead, use simple, elegant models better suited to...

Shannon Lantzy
Aug 31, 2023


“Optimize” means “make the best of it”
I read an article that suggested people think "optimizing" and efficiency efforts are synonymous with cost-cutting and worker burnout. I...

Shannon Lantzy
Aug 25, 2023


What is Regulatory Innovation?
With my recent change of employment status (from employed to self-employed), people have asked me, "What do you do?" I sometimes answer...

Shannon Lantzy
Aug 24, 2023


Deficiencies in AIs; What We Can Learn
Deficiencies in AIs; What We Can Learn No not that AI. I’m referring to FDA’s Additional Information (AI) letters. Also known as “hold...

Shannon Lantzy
Aug 17, 2023


How Cybersecurity Will Usher Speedier, Automatable Regulatory Decision-Making
I entered the world of medtech cybersecurity five years ago, not because I was a cybersecurity professional (though I play one on TV),...

Shannon Lantzy
Aug 10, 2023


Medtech Cybersecurity Expert Attrition
There aren't enough cybersecurity professionals in medtech. In fact, there aren't enough cybersecurity professionals in general....

Shannon Lantzy
Aug 9, 2023


The critical outside voice: invaluable
I recently took a ride in a driverless car through the streets of San Francisco, courtesy of my friend, a Waymo employee. The car pulled...

Shannon Lantzy
Aug 8, 2023


Thinking about "Luxury" Healthcare
A series of “thinking cap questions” about luxury healthcare, software subscription models, and promoting versus preventing progress What...

Shannon Lantzy
Aug 4, 2023


"Ready to submit" does not mean risk-free
"Get it to market," a friend and colleague said, relating a story about a conversation between herself, her FDA teammates, and a sponsor...

Shannon Lantzy
Aug 3, 2023


FDA’s “New” Cybersecurity Requirements Are a Relief
In January 2023, Congress granted FDA new regulatory authority to require manufacturers to address cybersecurity in medical devices....

Shannon Lantzy
Aug 2, 2023


Are CGMs good for the masses?
Lane Desborough shared this article with me, in response to a conversation about datasets and what CGMs can tell us. The article asserts...

Shannon Lantzy
Aug 1, 2023


We can love new tech, despite its pitfalls
Throughout human history, technology has surprised us with delightful innovations that save, extend, or improve the quality of our lives....

Shannon Lantzy
Jul 26, 2023


Medical Device Development Tools: A new market?
Opening up the market; FDA and the gift of MDDTs FDA recently updated its guidance on submitting a Medical Device Development Tool (MDDT)...

Shannon Lantzy
Jul 25, 2023


Lane Desborough: A quick bio
On August 10, Lane Desborough and I are going to kick off a webinar about accelerating diabetes technology development through...

Shannon Lantzy
Jul 21, 2023
James Clear's 3-2-1 (Recommended)
I read Atomic Habits on the recommendation of (seemingly) all the self-improver readers I know. It's a great book, short and readable,...

Shannon Lantzy
Jul 20, 2023


Wisdom from the Ancients
I recently picked up The Oldest Book in the World by Bill Manley based on a WSJ review and nostalgia for my undergraduate days in the...

Shannon Lantzy
Jul 16, 2023
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