#16 EUDAMED with Richard Houlihan, Impact of Brexit & EU MDR, working in the European Commission and Unique Device Identification

Richard Houlihan is the founder of EirMed, a company specialising in EUDAMED training & support, he was part of the original team at the European Commission who managed, designed, and led the development of EUDAMED. Richard has considerable knowledge when it comes to EUDAMED, the current European database on medical devices. He started his career in IT working as a programmer going into project management and had spent over 8 years working within the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium helping build the EUDAMED system. In this episode he discusses why the EUDAMED system was created, the issues the medical device industry currently faces, the challenges the new Medical Device Regulation and Brexit has brought into the EU and why companies are not currently allocating resources to learning about this new system. Get in touch with Richard Houlihan - https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-houlihan/ or https://eudamed.com/ Get in touch with Karandeep Badwal - https://www.linkedin.com/in/karandeepbadwal/ Follow Karandeep on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/QRAMedical Subscribe to the Podcast