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Intuitive

Post Market Surveillance Adverse Event Analyst

Intuitive, Peachtree Corners, Georgia, United States

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Job Description Primary Function of Position:

The Regulatory Post Market Surveillance Adverse Event Analyst investigates customer complaints related to injury / adverse event / or death cases and makes reporting conclusions, files regulatory reports, and ensures completeness and consistency of complaint documentation. This role includes live telephone intake and documentation of death and injury events phoned in to Intuitive by company representatives and customers. The AE Analyst is responsible for the actions or review of the complaint from intake through closure.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Investigating serious injury / adverse event and death complaints daily

Perform the preliminary classification of complaints including reportability triage and decision making

Conduct complaint investigations including following up with surgeons and other health care professionals via phone and email

Answer live, incoming phone calls for Adverse Events from Customer Service, Technical Service, Intuitive Representatives and hospital site contacts (e.g., surgeons, physicians, operating room personnel). Collect in-depth information as available, and document complaint into the CRM system

Perform reportability determinations in conjunction with medical safety officer, as necessary

Provide input to clinical conclusion to be included in the complaint file and regulatory reports

Escalate complaints that require additional review to engineering, medical safety officer, clinical development engineering, etc.

Accurately select Risk (Hazard, Harms, Severity, matching Clinical Risk Assessment line item) and IMDRF codes

Review product analysis investigation and determine cause / contribution of event to device

Draft and file medical device and vigilance Reports

Evaluate documentation for completeness and consistency

Approve final complaint file for closure after all applicable actions are completed

Manage complaint workload to required timeliness and goals

Collaborate with internal teams including clinical development engineering, human factors, medical safety office, risk management, engineering, and other departments as needed to provide relevant and critical clinical information related to adverse events

Adherence to standard operating procedures and guidance documents across the organization for reporting, investigation and compliance related to post market requirements

Analyze complaint data to identify trends, issues, or systemic discrepancies

Recognize and escalate trends and alert limits or process triggers of safety concerns to defined escalation path to communicate these concerns

Provide the risk management team required data to support and incorporate new failure modes into risk management files

Collaborate with the Medical Safety Office to support monitoring activities and ensure timely escalations.

Collaborate with the Intuitive Legal Department for legal claims

Ensure compliance to post market surveillance processes for regulatory database searches, literature reviews, surveys, and other proactive surveillance

Assess product relationship to reported complaints to root cause

Align to standard regulatory reporting assessment criteria

Collaborate on responses for Regulatory Agency Requests for additional information as assigned

Represent Post Market Surveillance at selected cross functional meetings

Provide monthly, daily, weekly reporting of key metrics and action plans

Drive the progress of complaints throughout the complaint lifecycle to ensure proper documentation and timely closure of each complaint

Participate in internal and external audits

Develop and maintain product knowledge of existing and new products

Maintain awareness of new or revised regulations and/or guidelines

Provide peer review and feedback of complaints and reports

Participate in new hire training and continuous Regulatory Compliance training as required

Participate in process improvement activities to continuously improve process effectiveness

Execute on projects as required

Perform other duties as directed

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