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Is the Audit Trail Review required for Electronic Health Records?

MHRA´s GCP inspectors have recently seen various types of Electronic Health Records (eHRs) during their investigator site inspections and in several cases they have given major findings.

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Regulations concerning the handling and management of data from "small" computerised systems?

The data integrity topic raises a number of questions. Current questions are addressed in a loose sequence of News. Question 5: Are regulations necessary for the handling and management of data generated by small systems (e.g.  pH meters, filter integrity testers, etc.)?

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Deletion of Data: Does it have to be regulated in a SOP?

The data integrity topic raises a number of questions. Current questions are addressed in a loose sequence of News. Question 4: Does the deletion of data have to be regulated in a SOP?

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Warning Letter on Data Integrity Issues in the Microbiological Laboratory

Among other things, insufficient or missing reports of test results in a microbiological laboratory resulted in a Warning Letter addressed to the company concerned. Read more about the Warning Letter to Hospira Healthcare India Pvt.

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Ensuring the data integrity of cloud service providers

The topic data integrity generates a multitude of questions. Current questions are answered in a loose sequence of News. Question 3: What agreements need to be included in contracts with cloud service providers in order to ensure data integrity?

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Is the review of the Audit Trail required in Clinical trials?

The MHRA recently provided guidance on Data Integrity in clinical trials. Is the review of the audit trail required?

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Audit Trail Review required before Each Batch Release?

The topic data integrity generates a multitude of questions. Current questions are answered in a loose sequence of News. Question 2: Is the Audit Trail review required by the authorities before each batch release, or is it only recommended?

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Current Questions and Answers on Data Integrity and Audit Trail Review

The topic data integrity generates a multitude of questions. Current questions are answered in a loose sequence of News. Question 1: Must there be a concept for evaluating the criticality of data? And what rules for entering critical data into computerised systems must be available? The answers to both questions can be found here.

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FDA Data Integrity and Compliance with CGMP Guidance for Industry finalised

Data integrity is still topic number 1 for national and international authorities. In 2016, the US-FDA presented a draft guidance on that in form of a questions and answers document. Now, it was finalised on 12 December 2018. Read more about the Guidance for Industry "Data Integrity and Compliance with CGMP".

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PIC/S gives ECA the Opportunity to comment on PI 041-1 (Draft 3) - Data Integrity

The Pharmaceutical Inspection Co-operation Scheme as international association of pharmaceutical inspectors is currently elaborating a document on data integrity. This document was published for comment on 30 November 2018. Among others, the ECA Foundation has been given the opportunity by the PICS to comment on this third draft by 28 February 2019. Read more about the new draft 3 of PI 041-1 "Good Practices for Data Management and Data Integrity in regulated GMP/GDP Environments".

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