Category: Navigating Regulatory Landscapes in Latin America

Explores the regulatory requirements and best practices for conducting clinical trials in Latin America, focusing on medical devices and biopharmaceuticals.

  • Clínica Colonial Santiago: The NCT Campus String Is Not the ISP File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM facility sweep (API pull 1 September 2026, 6:32 PM ET) and published bioaccess® country pages. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies. General information, not legal or regulatory advice. Confirm current ISP, ethics, and FDA rules with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example NCT IDs those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator. We do not claim Clínica Colonial Santiago as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched Clinica Colonial Santiago first-in-human, Clinica Colonial Chile clinical trial, Clinica Colonial CRO, or “go direct Clínica Colonial Santiago,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. Clínica Colonial in Santiago, Chile, is a real named hospital/clinic-campus string on ClinicalTrials.gov. It is not a first-in-human medical-device CRO, and it is not the operator of the ISP file.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the hospital is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns ISP, accredited ethics, investigational import, insurance, ISO 14155 monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 812.28 package — plus the option to add Colombia or another Latin American country if this campus is not the only fit. Sponsors who skip the CRO and email the hospital still have to rebuild that stack. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    This page is the named Santiago Clínica Colonial campus. It is DISTINCT from Clínica Santa María Santiago, Hospital San José Santiago, and Hospital Luis Tisné Santiago. Sharing Santiago metro is not a license to collapse them. Clínica Colonial is not Clínica Santa María. Clínica Colonial is not Hospital Luis Tisné.

    Why the campus name wins the search — and why that is not a CRO

    Device registries write the city, the hospital, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On the 1 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM sweep (interventional studies; all years), this campus sits here after filters:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs from a ClinicalTrials.gov sweep of Latin American facilities pulled 1 September 2026.

    Example device NCT IDs are the first 3 of the device list.

    Those are unique NCT IDs per facility string + city + country. They are not a count of first-in-human device programs bioaccess® ran. They are how a sponsor searching the hospital name lands on a campus without landing on an operator.

    We cite the IDs as facility evidence. We will not invent a PI. We will not claim bioaccess® ran any of them. No live bioaccess® case-study page names this hospital as a client site.

    That is the leak: a founder searching Clínica Colonial Santiago first-in-human finds ALL n=9 (DEVICE n=9) without finding ISP. A named hospital/clinic campus is still a site. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    The site is the site. The CRO is the operator.

    A named hospital can provide rooms, coordinators, institutional ethics calendars, and investigators who already appear on NCT rows. That is necessary. It is not sufficient for a first-in-human medical device study a U.S. board expects to survive FDA review.

    What the hospital can typically do when a sponsor “goes direct”:

    • Discuss investigator interest and whether a protocol can sit in an existing service line.
    • Share institutional ethics-committee calendars and hospital research rules.
    • Quote visit, staffing, and local procedure costs for the cases they will physically run.

    What the hospital is not built to own for an investigational device:

    • ISP. Instituto de Salud Pública (ISP) authorizes studies and investigational-device import in Chile. Live Chile blogs already put a typical ISP review in a band of about 30 business days. Commercial ISP registration (30–90 days) is a different file. An Ethical-Scientific Committee under Law 20.120 still has to sit. A hallway conversation on this campus is not that stack. We will not invent PAHO/WHO Level 4 standing for ISP. A hallway conversation at Clínica Colonial is not a Clínica Santa María file and is not a Hospital Luis Tisné file.
    • Investigational import. Ethics letter, investigator’s brochure, and an importation permit — end-to-end work, not a PI email. See importer of record for clinical trial devices in Latin America.
    • Clinical trial insurance. Required. We will not invent a campus-only premium here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, EDC, SAE reporting, and the TMF. The site may run visits. The CRO runs the quality system the FDA will later ask about.
    • The 21 CFR 812.28 package. Foreign data is eligible for FDA submission and review after GCP / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site MSA does not produce it.
    • Multi-country optionality. If enrollment or the indication later needs another Latin American country, a single-hospital MSA will not stretch.

    Going direct to this campus is how you confirm a room. It is not how you open an investigational file.

    How ISP actually works (the short version)

    Use Clinical Trials in Chile. Instituto de Salud Pública (ISP) authorizes studies and investigational-device import. Live Chile blogs already put a typical ISP review in a band of about 30 business days. Commercial ISP registration in a 30–90 day band is a different file — do not put trial authorization and commercial registro on one Gantt labeled “Chile.” An Ethical-Scientific Committee under Law 20.120 still has to sit. We will not invent PAHO/WHO Level 4 standing for ISP on this page.

    Ask for a protocol-specific calendar. A hospital email is not ISP clearance. bioaccess® manages the file. That is CRO work, not site work.

    All bioaccess® device protocols in this country are run under ISO 14155 and the Declaration of Helsinki. Data is designed to be eligible for FDA submission and review under 21 CFR 812.28 on a case-by-case basis — not a guarantee of clearance or approval. See OUS FIH and FDA IDE.

    Not a critique of the hospital

    Clínica Colonial Santiago is a serious named Chilean campus on the public registry. ALL n=9 and DEVICE n=9 are registry volume, not a punchline. Use the site when the protocol fits. Hire the operator.

    What the CRO still does after you have the campus on a slide

    1. Regulatory-fit, not tourism. This geography is sourced. One campus is not automatically the right room for every indication. bioaccess® still runs trials in Colombia and the rest of the platform.
    2. Protocol, IB, ICF, insurance, and the ISP / ethics packet.
    3. Importer of record and device accountability.
    4. Site activation that is more than a tour: contracts, training, investigational product, EDC, monitoring plan. Activate this campus only if it fits the protocol.
    5. ISO 14155 monitoring and the 21 CFR 812.28 narrative so the dataset is built for a later Pre-Sub, IDE, 510(k), De Novo, PMA, or HDE — eligibility, not a promise of FDA action.

    The firm was founded in 2010. That is the operator layer around a campus string.

    Colombia is still on the map

    Public line: bioaccess® runs first-in-human studies in Colombia now — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Colombia’s regulatory framework is changing for the better. INVIMA commercial registration remains. Ethics timing in Panama and Colombia follows each committee’s meeting schedule. The country page’s published per-patient comparison: $12K–$22K vs. $15K–$25K as published on Clinical Trials in Panama. We pick the country the device needs. The founder podcast is Global Trial Accelerators™.

    Frequently asked questions

    Can I contract Clínica Colonial Santiago directly for a device FIH?

    You can try. The hospital can discuss investigator interest, local visit costs, and ethics calendars. It cannot, by ranking on ClinicalTrials.gov, become your ISP applicant, importer of record, insurer, ISO 14155 monitor, or 21 CFR 812.28 packager. Contract the CRO, then let the CRO activate the site if the site fits.

    Did bioaccess® run the NCT IDs listed here?

    No public bioaccess® case-study page names this hospital. We will not invent that claim. This page answers the search; it does not claim the studies.

    Is this the same page as Clínica Santa María Santiago or Hospital Luis Tisné?

    No. Clínica Santa María Santiago is already published. Hospital Luis Tisné Santiago is a distinct Santiago campus. This page is Clínica Colonial only.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT05695989?

    No. We cite it as facility evidence. We will not invent a sponsor or a PI.

    Next step

    If the search that brought you here was this campus, start as the operator: contact bioaccess® or book from First-in-Human CRO. Santiago sibling (do not merge): Clínica Santa María Santiago.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • Hcor São Paulo: The NCT Campus String Is Not the ANVISA File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM facility sweep (API pull 1 September 2026, 6:32 PM ET) and published bioaccess® country pages. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies. General information, not legal or regulatory advice. Confirm current ANVISA, ethics, and FDA rules with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example NCT IDs those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator. We do not claim Hcor São Paulo as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched Hcor Sao Paulo first-in-human, Hospital do Coracao Sao Paulo clinical trial, Hcor CRO, or “go direct Hcor São Paulo,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. Hcor in São Paulo, Brazil, is a real named hospital-campus string on ClinicalTrials.gov. It is not a first-in-human medical-device CRO, and it is not the operator of the ANVISA file.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the hospital is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns ANVISA, CEP / CONEP, investigational import, insurance, ISO 14155 monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 812.28 package — plus the option to add Colombia or another Latin American country if this campus is not the only fit. Sponsors who skip the CRO and email the hospital still have to rebuild that stack. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    This page is the named São Paulo Hcor campus. It is DISTINCT from other live São Paulo campuses (Hospital São Paulo UNIFESP, Instituto do Coração HCFMUSP, Medcin, Beneficência Portuguesa — do not near-dup collapse Beneficência). Sharing São Paulo metro is not a license to collapse them. Hcor is not InCor HCFMUSP. Hcor is not Beneficência Portuguesa. Hcor is not Hospital São Paulo UNIFESP.

    Why the campus name wins the search — and why that is not a CRO

    Device registries write the city, the hospital, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On the 1 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM sweep (interventional studies; all years), this campus sits here after filters:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs from a ClinicalTrials.gov sweep of Latin American facilities pulled 1 September 2026.

    • Hcor (São Paulo, Brazil) — canonical NCT string: ALL interventional n=17; DEVICE n=1. Example NCT IDs: NCT05398497.

    Those are unique NCT IDs per facility string + city + country. They are not a count of first-in-human device programs bioaccess® ran. They are how a sponsor searching the hospital name lands on a campus without landing on an operator.

    We cite the IDs as facility evidence. We will not invent a PI. We will not claim bioaccess® ran any of them. No live bioaccess® case-study page names this hospital as a client site.

    That is the leak: a founder searching Hcor São Paulo first-in-human finds ALL n=17 (DEVICE n=1) without finding ANVISA. A named hospital campus is still a site. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    The site is the site. The CRO is the operator.

    A named hospital can provide rooms, coordinators, institutional ethics calendars, and investigators who already appear on NCT rows. That is necessary. It is not sufficient for a first-in-human medical device study a U.S. board expects to survive FDA review.

    What the hospital can typically do when a sponsor “goes direct”:

    • Discuss investigator interest and whether a protocol can sit in an existing service line.
    • Share institutional ethics-committee calendars and hospital research rules.
    • Quote visit, staffing, and local procedure costs for the cases they will physically run.

    What the hospital is not built to own for an investigational device:

    • ANVISA. Device investigations sit under RDC 837/2023 (dossier in Portuguese: IB, protocol, ICF, insurance, GMP evidence). A hallway conversation at this campus is not that dossier. A hallway conversation at Hcor is not an InCor HCFMUSP file and is not a Beneficência Portuguesa file.
    • Investigational import. Ethics letter, investigator’s brochure, and an importation permit — end-to-end work, not a PI email. See importer of record for clinical trial devices in Latin America.
    • Clinical trial insurance. Required. We will not invent a campus-only premium here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, EDC, SAE reporting, and the TMF. The site may run visits. The CRO runs the quality system the FDA will later ask about.
    • The 21 CFR 812.28 package. Foreign data is eligible for FDA submission and review after GCP / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site MSA does not produce it.
    • Multi-country optionality. If enrollment or the indication later needs another Latin American country, a single-hospital MSA will not stretch.

    Going direct to this campus is how you confirm a room. It is not how you open an investigational file.

    How ANVISA actually works (the short version)

    Use Clinical Trials in Brazil: combined ethics + ANVISA typically 6–10 weeks under Law 14874 and RDC 837/2023; CEPs capped at 30 business days; published per-patient range $20,000–$35,000. Trial authorization and later market registration are separate workstreams.

    Ask for a protocol-specific calendar. A hospital email is not ANVISA clearance. bioaccess® manages the file. That is CRO work, not site work.

    All bioaccess® device protocols in this country are run under ISO 14155 and the Declaration of Helsinki. Data is designed to be eligible for FDA submission and review under 21 CFR 812.28 on a case-by-case basis — not a guarantee of clearance or approval. See OUS FIH and FDA IDE.

    Not a critique of the hospital

    Hcor São Paulo is a serious named Brazilian campus on the public registry. ALL n=17 and DEVICE n=1 are registry volume, not a punchline. Use the site when the protocol fits. Hire the operator.

    What the CRO still does after you have the campus on a slide

    1. Regulatory-fit, not tourism. This geography is sourced. One campus is not automatically the right room for every indication. bioaccess® still runs trials in Colombia and the rest of the platform.
    2. Protocol, IB, ICF, insurance, and the ANVISA / ethics packet.
    3. Importer of record and device accountability.
    4. Site activation that is more than a tour: contracts, training, investigational product, EDC, monitoring plan. Activate this campus only if it fits the protocol.
    5. ISO 14155 monitoring and the 21 CFR 812.28 narrative so the dataset is built for a later Pre-Sub, IDE, 510(k), De Novo, PMA, or HDE — eligibility, not a promise of FDA action.

    The firm was founded in 2010. That is the operator layer around a campus string.

    Colombia is still on the map

    Public line: bioaccess® runs first-in-human studies in Colombia now — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Colombia’s regulatory framework is changing for the better. INVIMA commercial registration remains. Ethics review in both Panama and Colombia runs on each committee’s meeting schedule. The country page’s published per-patient comparison: $12K–$22K vs. $15K–$25K as published on Clinical Trials in Panama. We pick the country the device needs. The founder podcast is Global Trial Accelerators™.

    Frequently asked questions

    Can I contract Hcor São Paulo directly for a device FIH?

    You can try. The hospital can discuss investigator interest, local visit costs, and ethics calendars. It cannot, by ranking on ClinicalTrials.gov, become your ANVISA applicant, importer of record, insurer, ISO 14155 monitor, or 21 CFR 812.28 packager. Contract the CRO, then let the CRO activate the site if the site fits.

    Did bioaccess® run the NCT IDs listed here?

    No public bioaccess® case-study page names this hospital. We will not invent that claim. This page answers the search; it does not claim the studies.

    Is this the same page as Instituto do Coração HCFMUSP or Beneficência Portuguesa?

    No. Instituto do Coração HCFMUSP is already published. Beneficência Portuguesa São Paulo is already published — do not near-dup merge. This page is Hcor only.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT05398497?

    No. We cite it as facility evidence. We will not invent a sponsor or a PI.

    Next step

    If the search that brought you here was this campus, start as the operator: contact bioaccess® or book from First-in-Human CRO. São Paulo sibling (do not merge): Instituto do Coração HCFMUSP.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • Federal University of Bahia Salvador: The NCT Campus String Is Not the ANVISA File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM facility sweep (API pull 1 September 2026, 6:32 PM ET) and published bioaccess® country pages. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies. General information, not legal or regulatory advice. Confirm current ANVISA, ethics, and FDA rules with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example NCT IDs those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator. We do not claim Federal University of Bahia Salvador as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched Federal University of Bahia Salvador first-in-human, UFBA clinical trial, Universidade Federal da Bahia CRO, or “go direct Federal University of Bahia Salvador,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in Salvador, Brazil, is a real named university-campus string on ClinicalTrials.gov. It is not a first-in-human medical-device CRO, and it is not the operator of the ANVISA file.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the university is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns ANVISA, CEP / CONEP, investigational import, insurance, ISO 14155 monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 812.28 package — plus the option to add Colombia or another Latin American country if this campus is not the only fit. Sponsors who skip the CRO and email the university still have to rebuild that stack. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    This page is the named Salvador UFBA campus (alias includes Hospital Universitário Professor Edgard Santos / HUPES-UFBA). It is DISTINCT from live IDOR Regional Bahia Salvador and Núcleo de Oncologia da Bahia Salvador. Sharing Salvador / Bahia is not a license to collapse them. UFBA is not IDOR Regional Bahia. UFBA is not Núcleo de Oncologia da Bahia.

    Why the campus name wins the search — and why that is not a CRO

    Device registries write the city, the hospital, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On the 1 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM sweep (interventional studies; all years), this campus sits here after filters:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs from a ClinicalTrials.gov sweep of Latin American facilities pulled 1 September 2026.

    • Federal University of Bahia (Salvador, Brazil) — canonical NCT string: ALL interventional n=18; DEVICE n=3. Example NCT IDs: NCT01968512, NCT02152267, NCT07633444.

    Those are unique NCT IDs per facility string + city + country. They are not a count of first-in-human device programs bioaccess® ran. They are how a sponsor searching the hospital name lands on a campus without landing on an operator.

    We cite the IDs as facility evidence. We will not invent a PI. We will not claim bioaccess® ran any of them. No live bioaccess® case-study page names this university as a client site.

    That is the leak: a founder searching Federal University of Bahia Salvador first-in-human finds ALL n=18 (DEVICE n=3) without finding ANVISA. A named university campus is still a site. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    The site is the site. The CRO is the operator.

    A named university can provide rooms, coordinators, institutional ethics calendars, and investigators who already appear on NCT rows. That is necessary. It is not sufficient for a first-in-human medical device study a U.S. board expects to survive FDA review.

    What the university can typically do when a sponsor “goes direct”:

    • Discuss investigator interest and whether a protocol can sit in an existing service line.
    • Share institutional ethics-committee calendars and hospital research rules.
    • Quote visit, staffing, and local procedure costs for the cases they will physically run.

    What the university is not built to own for an investigational device:

    • ANVISA. Device investigations sit under RDC 837/2023 (dossier in Portuguese: IB, protocol, ICF, insurance, GMP evidence). A hallway conversation at this campus is not that dossier. A hallway conversation at UFBA is not an IDOR Regional Bahia file and is not a Núcleo de Oncologia da Bahia file.
    • Investigational import. Ethics letter, investigator’s brochure, and an importation permit — end-to-end work, not a PI email. See importer of record for clinical trial devices in Latin America.
    • Clinical trial insurance. Required. We will not invent a campus-only premium here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, EDC, SAE reporting, and the TMF. The site may run visits. The CRO runs the quality system the FDA will later ask about.
    • The 21 CFR 812.28 package. Foreign data is eligible for FDA submission and review after GCP / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site MSA does not produce it.
    • Multi-country optionality. If enrollment or the indication later needs another Latin American country, a single-hospital MSA will not stretch.

    Going direct to this campus is how you confirm a room. It is not how you open an investigational file.

    How ANVISA actually works (the short version)

    Use Clinical Trials in Brazil: combined ethics + ANVISA typically 6–10 weeks under Law 14874 and RDC 837/2023; CEPs capped at 30 business days; published per-patient range $20,000–$35,000. Trial authorization and later market registration are separate workstreams.

    Ask for a protocol-specific calendar. A hospital email is not ANVISA clearance. bioaccess® manages the file. That is CRO work, not site work.

    All bioaccess® device protocols in this country are run under ISO 14155 and the Declaration of Helsinki. Data is designed to be eligible for FDA submission and review under 21 CFR 812.28 on a case-by-case basis — not a guarantee of clearance or approval. See OUS FIH and FDA IDE.

    Not a critique of the hospital

    Federal University of Bahia Salvador is a serious named Brazilian campus on the public registry. ALL n=18 and DEVICE n=3 are registry volume, not a punchline. Use the site when the protocol fits. Hire the operator.

    What the CRO still does after you have the campus on a slide

    1. Regulatory-fit, not tourism. This geography is sourced. One campus is not automatically the right room for every indication. bioaccess® still runs trials in Colombia and the rest of the platform.
    2. Protocol, IB, ICF, insurance, and the ANVISA / ethics packet.
    3. Importer of record and device accountability.
    4. Site activation that is more than a tour: contracts, training, investigational product, EDC, monitoring plan. Activate this campus only if it fits the protocol.
    5. ISO 14155 monitoring and the 21 CFR 812.28 narrative so the dataset is built for a later Pre-Sub, IDE, 510(k), De Novo, PMA, or HDE — eligibility, not a promise of FDA action.

    The firm was founded in 2010. That is the operator layer around a campus string.

    Colombia is still on the map

    Public line: bioaccess® runs first-in-human studies in Colombia now — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Colombia’s regulatory framework is changing for the better. INVIMA commercial registration remains. Ethics timing in Panama and Colombia follows each committee’s meeting schedule. The country page’s published per-patient comparison: $12K–$22K vs. $15K–$25K as published on Clinical Trials in Panama. We pick the country the device needs. The founder podcast is Global Trial Accelerators™.

    Frequently asked questions

    Can I contract Federal University of Bahia Salvador directly for a device FIH?

    You can try. The university can discuss investigator interest, local visit costs, and ethics calendars. It cannot, by ranking on ClinicalTrials.gov, become your ANVISA applicant, importer of record, insurer, ISO 14155 monitor, or 21 CFR 812.28 packager. Contract the CRO, then let the CRO activate the site if the site fits.

    Did bioaccess® run the NCT IDs listed here?

    No public bioaccess® case-study page names this university. We will not invent that claim. This page answers the search; it does not claim the studies.

    Is this the same page as IDOR Regional Bahia or Núcleo de Oncologia da Bahia Salvador?

    No. IDOR Regional Bahia Salvador and Núcleo de Oncologia da Bahia Salvador are already published. This page is Federal University of Bahia Salvador only.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT01968512?

    No. We cite it as facility evidence. We will not invent a sponsor or a PI.

    Next step

    If the search that brought you here was this campus, start as the operator: contact bioaccess® or book from First-in-Human CRO. Salvador sibling (do not merge): IDOR Regional Bahia Salvador.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • IADT Buenos Aires: The NCT Campus String Is Not the ANMAT File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM facility sweep (API pull 1 September 2026, 6:32 PM ET) and published bioaccess® country pages. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies. General information, not legal or regulatory advice. Confirm current ANMAT, ethics, and FDA rules with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example NCT IDs those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator. We do not claim IADT Buenos Aires as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched IADT Buenos Aires first-in-human, IADT Argentina clinical trial, IADT CRO, or “go direct IADT Buenos Aires,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. IADT in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a real named institute/center string on ClinicalTrials.gov. It is not a first-in-human medical-device CRO, and it is not the operator of the ANMAT file.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the institute is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns ANMAT, accredited ethics, investigational import, insurance, ISO 14155 monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 812.28 package — plus the option to add Colombia or another Latin American country if this campus is not the only fit. Sponsors who skip the CRO and email the institute still have to rebuild that stack. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    This page is the named Buenos Aires IADT campus. It is DISTINCT from live Psoriahue, IDIM, Centro Medico Arsema (separate page), and FLENI Buenos Aires. Sharing Buenos Aires / Argentina is not a license to collapse them. IADT is not Psoriahue. IADT is not IDIM. IADT is not FLENI.

    Why the campus name wins the search — and why that is not a CRO

    Device registries write the city, the hospital, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On the 1 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM sweep (interventional studies; all years), this campus sits here after filters:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs from a ClinicalTrials.gov sweep of Latin American facilities pulled 1 September 2026.

    • IADT (Buenos Aires, Argentina) — canonical NCT string: ALL interventional n=19; DEVICE n=1. Example NCT IDs: NCT04061733.

    Those are unique NCT IDs per facility string + city + country. They are not a count of first-in-human device programs bioaccess® ran. They are how a sponsor searching the hospital name lands on a campus without landing on an operator.

    We cite the IDs as facility evidence. We will not invent a PI. We will not claim bioaccess® ran any of them. No live bioaccess® case-study page names this institute as a client site.

    That is the leak: a founder searching IADT Buenos Aires first-in-human finds ALL n=19 (DEVICE n=1) without finding ANMAT. A named institute is still a site. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    The site is the site. The CRO is the operator.

    A named institute can provide rooms, coordinators, institutional ethics calendars, and investigators who already appear on NCT rows. That is necessary. It is not sufficient for a first-in-human medical device study a U.S. board expects to survive FDA review.

    What the institute can typically do when a sponsor “goes direct”:

    • Discuss investigator interest and whether a protocol can sit in an existing service line.
    • Share institutional ethics-committee calendars and hospital research rules.
    • Quote visit, staffing, and local procedure costs for the cases they will physically run.

    What the institute is not built to own for an investigational device:

    • ANMAT. Argentina’s national medicines and devices authority (Administración Nacional de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Tecnología Médica) is the file a sponsor actually needs. A hallway conversation on this campus is not that file. A published statutory target on the trial side is 90 business days and the clock pauses for RFIs. Trial authorization and commercial registro are separate petitions. A hallway conversation at IADT is not a Psoriahue file, not an IDIM file, and not a FLENI file.
    • Investigational import. Ethics letter, investigator’s brochure, and an importation permit — end-to-end work, not a PI email. See importer of record for clinical trial devices in Latin America.
    • Clinical trial insurance. Required. We will not invent a campus-only premium here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, EDC, SAE reporting, and the TMF. The site may run visits. The CRO runs the quality system the FDA will later ask about.
    • The 21 CFR 812.28 package. Foreign data is eligible for FDA submission and review after GCP / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site MSA does not produce it.
    • Multi-country optionality. If enrollment or the indication later needs another Latin American country, a single-hospital MSA will not stretch.

    Going direct to this campus is how you confirm a room. It is not how you open an investigational file.

    How ANMAT actually works (the short version)

    Use live bioaccess® Argentina / ANMAT pages for the full pathway. Trial authorization and commercial registro are different petitions. Do not put both on one Gantt labeled “Argentina.” A published statutory target on the trial side is on the order of 90 business days and pauses for RFIs; ask for a protocol-specific calendar rather than treating an NCT row as start-up.

    Ask for a protocol-specific calendar. A hospital email is not ANMAT clearance. bioaccess® manages the file. That is CRO work, not site work.

    All bioaccess® device protocols in this country are run under ISO 14155 and the Declaration of Helsinki. Data is designed to be eligible for FDA submission and review under 21 CFR 812.28 on a case-by-case basis — not a guarantee of clearance or approval. See OUS FIH and FDA IDE.

    Not a critique of the hospital

    IADT is a serious named Buenos Aires campus on the public registry. ALL n=19 and DEVICE n=1 are registry volume, not a punchline. Use the site when the protocol fits. Hire the operator.

    What the CRO still does after you have the campus on a slide

    1. Regulatory-fit, not tourism. This geography is sourced. One campus is not automatically the right room for every indication. bioaccess® still runs trials in Colombia and the rest of the platform.
    2. Protocol, IB, ICF, insurance, and the ANMAT / ethics packet.
    3. Importer of record and device accountability.
    4. Site activation that is more than a tour: contracts, training, investigational product, EDC, monitoring plan. Activate this campus only if it fits the protocol.
    5. ISO 14155 monitoring and the 21 CFR 812.28 narrative so the dataset is built for a later Pre-Sub, IDE, 510(k), De Novo, PMA, or HDE — eligibility, not a promise of FDA action.

    The firm was founded in 2010. That is the operator layer around a campus string.

    Colombia is still on the map

    Public line: bioaccess® runs first-in-human studies in Colombia now — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Colombia’s regulatory framework is changing for the better. INVIMA commercial registration remains. Ethics timing in Panama and Colombia follows each committee’s meeting schedule. The country page’s published per-patient comparison: $12K–$22K vs. $15K–$25K as published on Clinical Trials in Panama. We pick the country the device needs. The founder podcast is Global Trial Accelerators™.

    Frequently asked questions

    Can I contract IADT Buenos Aires directly for a device FIH?

    You can try. The institute can discuss investigator interest, local visit costs, and ethics calendars. It cannot, by ranking on ClinicalTrials.gov, become your ANMAT applicant, importer of record, insurer, ISO 14155 monitor, or 21 CFR 812.28 packager. Contract the CRO, then let the CRO activate the site if the site fits.

    Did bioaccess® run the NCT IDs listed here?

    No public bioaccess® case-study page names this institute. We will not invent that claim. This page answers the search; it does not claim the studies.

    Is this the same page as Psoriahue, IDIM, or FLENI Buenos Aires?

    No. Psoriahue has its own page. IDIM has its own page. FLENI Buenos Aires is already published. This page is IADT only.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT04061733?

    No. We cite it as facility evidence. We will not invent a sponsor or a PI.

    Next step

    If the search that brought you here was this campus, start as the operator: contact bioaccess® or book from First-in-Human CRO. CABA sibling (do not merge): FLENI Buenos Aires.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • Fundacion Oftalmologica De Santander: The NCT Campus String Is Not the INVIMA File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM facility sweep (API pull 1 September 2026, 6:32 PM ET) and published bioaccess® country pages. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies. General information, not legal or regulatory advice. Confirm current INVIMA, ethics, and FDA rules with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example NCT IDs those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator. We do not claim Fundacion Oftalmologica De Santander as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched Fundacion Oftalmologica De Santander first-in-human, FOSCAL clinical trial, Fundacion Oftalmologica Santander CRO, or “go direct Fundacion Oftalmologica De Santander,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. Fundacion Oftalmologica De Santander in Santander, Colombia, is a real named foundation-campus string on ClinicalTrials.gov. It is not a first-in-human medical-device CRO, and it is not the operator of the INVIMA file.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the foundation is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns INVIMA, accredited ethics, investigational import, insurance, ISO 14155 monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 812.28 package — plus the option to add Colombia or another Latin American country if this campus is not the only fit. Sponsors who skip the CRO and email the foundation still have to rebuild that stack. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    This page is the named Santander Fundacion Oftalmologica De Santander campus. It is not Fundación CTIC Bogotá, not Fundación Reumatología Fernando Chalem Bogotá, and not a Bogotá merge. Sharing a Fundación name is not a license to collapse them. Fundacion Oftalmologica De Santander is not CTIC. Fundacion Oftalmologica De Santander is not Fernando Chalem.

    Why the campus name wins the search — and why that is not a CRO

    Device registries write the city, the hospital, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On the 1 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM sweep (interventional studies; all years), this campus sits here after filters:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs from a ClinicalTrials.gov sweep of Latin American facilities pulled 1 September 2026.

    • Fundacion Oftalmologica De Santander (Santander, Colombia) — canonical NCT string: ALL interventional n=20; DEVICE n=1. Example NCT IDs: NCT05883943.

    bioaccess® runs first-in-human studies in Colombia now.

    Those are unique NCT IDs per facility string + city + country. They are not a count of first-in-human device programs bioaccess® ran. They are how a sponsor searching the hospital name lands on a campus without landing on an operator.

    We cite the IDs as facility evidence. We will not invent a PI. We will not claim bioaccess® ran any of them. No live bioaccess® case-study page names this foundation as a client site.

    That is the leak: a founder searching Fundacion Oftalmologica De Santander first-in-human finds ALL n=20 (DEVICE n=1) without finding INVIMA. A named foundation is still a site. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    The site is the site. The CRO is the operator.

    A named foundation can provide rooms, coordinators, institutional ethics calendars, and investigators who already appear on NCT rows. That is necessary. It is not sufficient for a first-in-human medical device study a U.S. board expects to survive FDA review.

    What the foundation can typically do when a sponsor “goes direct”:

    • Discuss investigator interest and whether a protocol can sit in an existing service line.
    • Share institutional ethics-committee calendars and hospital research rules.
    • Quote visit, staffing, and local procedure costs for the cases they will physically run.

    What the foundation is not built to own for an investigational device:

    • INVIMA. INVIMA is the national file for an investigational device in Colombia. Resolución 8430/1993 still sits on the ethics and research side of that stack. A hallway conversation on this campus is not the INVIMA dossier. Resolución 2378 does not govern device clinical trials — see the live country pages rather than importing a drug-GCP resolution onto a device file. A hallway conversation at Fundacion Oftalmologica De Santander is not a CTIC Bogotá file.
    • Investigational import. Ethics letter, investigator’s brochure, and an importation permit — end-to-end work, not a PI email. See importer of record for clinical trial devices in Latin America.
    • Clinical trial insurance. Required. We will not invent a campus-only premium here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, EDC, SAE reporting, and the TMF. The site may run visits. The CRO runs the quality system the FDA will later ask about.
    • The 21 CFR 812.28 package. Foreign data is eligible for FDA submission and review after GCP / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site MSA does not produce it.
    • Multi-country optionality. If enrollment or the indication later needs another Latin American country, a single-hospital MSA will not stretch.

    Going direct to this campus is how you confirm a room. It is not how you open an investigational file.

    How INVIMA actually works (the short version)

    Use CRO in Colombia. Colombia ethics timing depends on each committee’s meeting schedule. Published comparison already on the Panama country page: per-patient $15,000–$25,000. bioaccess® still runs clinical trials in Colombia — local entity, INVIMA clocks in-country. We pick the country the device needs. A hospital email in Floridablanca is not INVIMA clearance.

    Ask for a protocol-specific calendar. A hospital email is not INVIMA clearance. bioaccess® manages the file. That is CRO work, not site work.

    All bioaccess® device protocols in this country are run under ISO 14155 and the Declaration of Helsinki. Data is designed to be eligible for FDA submission and review under 21 CFR 812.28 on a case-by-case basis — not a guarantee of clearance or approval. See OUS FIH and FDA IDE.

    Not a critique of the hospital

    Fundacion Oftalmologica De Santander is a serious named Colombian campus on the public registry. ALL n=20 and DEVICE n=1 are registry volume, not a punchline. Use the site when the protocol fits. Hire the operator. bioaccess® runs first-in-human studies in Colombia now.

    What the CRO still does after you have the campus on a slide

    1. Regulatory-fit, not tourism. This geography is sourced. One campus is not automatically the right room for every indication. bioaccess® still runs trials in Colombia and the rest of the platform.
    2. Protocol, IB, ICF, insurance, and the INVIMA / ethics packet.
    3. Importer of record and device accountability.
    4. Site activation that is more than a tour: contracts, training, investigational product, EDC, monitoring plan. Activate this campus only if it fits the protocol.
    5. ISO 14155 monitoring and the 21 CFR 812.28 narrative so the dataset is built for a later Pre-Sub, IDE, 510(k), De Novo, PMA, or HDE — eligibility, not a promise of FDA action.

    The firm was founded in 2010. That is the operator layer around a campus string.

    Colombia is still on the map

    Public line: bioaccess® runs first-in-human studies in Colombia now — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Colombia’s regulatory framework is changing for the better. INVIMA commercial registration remains. Ethics review in both Panama and Colombia runs on each committee’s meeting schedule. The country page’s published per-patient comparison: $12K–$22K vs. $15K–$25K as published on Clinical Trials in Panama. We pick the country the device needs. The founder podcast is Global Trial Accelerators™.

    Frequently asked questions

    Can I contract Fundacion Oftalmologica De Santander directly for a device FIH?

    You can try. The foundation can discuss investigator interest, local visit costs, and ethics calendars. It cannot, by ranking on ClinicalTrials.gov, become your INVIMA applicant, importer of record, insurer, ISO 14155 monitor, or 21 CFR 812.28 packager. Contract the CRO, then let the CRO activate the site if the site fits.

    Did bioaccess® run the NCT IDs listed here?

    No public bioaccess® case-study page names this foundation. We will not invent that claim. This page answers the search; it does not claim the studies.

    Is this the same page as Fundación CTIC Bogotá?

    No. Fundación CTIC Bogotá is already published. This page is Fundacion Oftalmologica De Santander only.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT05883943?

    No. We cite it as facility evidence. We will not invent a sponsor or a PI.

    Next step

    If the search that brought you here was this campus, start as the operator: contact bioaccess® or book from First-in-Human CRO. Colombia sibling (do not merge): Fundación CTIC Bogotá.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • Universidade Federal Fluminense Niterói: The NCT Campus String Is Not the ANVISA File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM facility sweep (API pull 1 September 2026, 6:32 PM ET) and published bioaccess® country pages. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies. General information, not legal or regulatory advice. Confirm current ANVISA, ethics, and FDA rules with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example NCT IDs those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator. We do not claim Universidade Federal Fluminense Niterói as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched Universidade Federal Fluminense Niteroi first-in-human, UFF Niteroi clinical trial, Universidade Federal Fluminense CRO, or “go direct Universidade Federal Fluminense Niterói,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. Universidade Federal Fluminense in Niterói, Brazil, is a real named university-campus string on ClinicalTrials.gov. It is not a first-in-human medical-device CRO, and it is not the operator of the ANVISA file.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the university is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns ANVISA, CEP / CONEP, investigational import, insurance, ISO 14155 monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 812.28 package — plus the option to add Colombia or another Latin American country if this campus is not the only fit. Sponsors who skip the CRO and email the university still have to rebuild that stack. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    This page is the named Niterói UFF campus. It is DISTINCT from live Universidade Federal Fluminense Nova Friburgo (Nova Friburgo — different city) and from Complexo Hospitalar de Niterói. Sharing UFF / Niterói is not a license to collapse them. UFF Niterói is not UFF Nova Friburgo. UFF Niterói is not Complexo Hospitalar Niterói.

    Why the campus name wins the search — and why that is not a CRO

    Device registries write the city, the hospital, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On the 1 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM sweep (interventional studies; all years), this campus sits here after filters:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs from a ClinicalTrials.gov sweep of Latin American facilities pulled 1 September 2026.

    • Universidade Federal Fluminense (Niterói, Brazil) — canonical NCT string: ALL interventional n=21; DEVICE n=3. Example NCT IDs: NCT03687047, NCT04512677, NCT06967649.

    Those are unique NCT IDs per facility string + city + country. They are not a count of first-in-human device programs bioaccess® ran. They are how a sponsor searching the hospital name lands on a campus without landing on an operator.

    We cite the IDs as facility evidence. We will not invent a PI. We will not claim bioaccess® ran any of them. No live bioaccess® case-study page names this university as a client site.

    That is the leak: a founder searching Universidade Federal Fluminense Niterói first-in-human finds ALL n=21 (DEVICE n=3) without finding ANVISA. A named university campus is still a site. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    The site is the site. The CRO is the operator.

    A named university can provide rooms, coordinators, institutional ethics calendars, and investigators who already appear on NCT rows. That is necessary. It is not sufficient for a first-in-human medical device study a U.S. board expects to survive FDA review.

    What the university can typically do when a sponsor “goes direct”:

    • Discuss investigator interest and whether a protocol can sit in an existing service line.
    • Share institutional ethics-committee calendars and hospital research rules.
    • Quote visit, staffing, and local procedure costs for the cases they will physically run.

    What the university is not built to own for an investigational device:

    • ANVISA. Device investigations sit under RDC 837/2023 (dossier in Portuguese: IB, protocol, ICF, insurance, GMP evidence). A hallway conversation at this campus is not that dossier. A hallway conversation at UFF Niterói is not a Nova Friburgo file and is not a Complexo Hospitalar Niterói file.
    • Investigational import. Ethics letter, investigator’s brochure, and an importation permit — end-to-end work, not a PI email. See importer of record for clinical trial devices in Latin America.
    • Clinical trial insurance. Required. We will not invent a campus-only premium here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, EDC, SAE reporting, and the TMF. The site may run visits. The CRO runs the quality system the FDA will later ask about.
    • The 21 CFR 812.28 package. Foreign data is eligible for FDA submission and review after GCP / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site MSA does not produce it.
    • Multi-country optionality. If enrollment or the indication later needs another Latin American country, a single-hospital MSA will not stretch.

    Going direct to this campus is how you confirm a room. It is not how you open an investigational file.

    How ANVISA actually works (the short version)

    Use Clinical Trials in Brazil: combined ethics + ANVISA typically 6–10 weeks under Law 14874 and RDC 837/2023; CEPs capped at 30 business days; published per-patient range $20,000–$35,000. Trial authorization and later market registration are separate workstreams.

    Ask for a protocol-specific calendar. A hospital email is not ANVISA clearance. bioaccess® manages the file. That is CRO work, not site work.

    All bioaccess® device protocols in this country are run under ISO 14155 and the Declaration of Helsinki. Data is designed to be eligible for FDA submission and review under 21 CFR 812.28 on a case-by-case basis — not a guarantee of clearance or approval. See OUS FIH and FDA IDE.

    Not a critique of the hospital

    Universidade Federal Fluminense Niterói is a serious named Brazilian campus on the public registry. ALL n=21 and DEVICE n=3 are registry volume, not a punchline. Use the site when the protocol fits. Hire the operator.

    What the CRO still does after you have the campus on a slide

    1. Regulatory-fit, not tourism. This geography is sourced. One campus is not automatically the right room for every indication. bioaccess® still runs trials in Colombia and the rest of the platform.
    2. Protocol, IB, ICF, insurance, and the ANVISA / ethics packet.
    3. Importer of record and device accountability.
    4. Site activation that is more than a tour: contracts, training, investigational product, EDC, monitoring plan. Activate this campus only if it fits the protocol.
    5. ISO 14155 monitoring and the 21 CFR 812.28 narrative so the dataset is built for a later Pre-Sub, IDE, 510(k), De Novo, PMA, or HDE — eligibility, not a promise of FDA action.

    The firm was founded in 2010. That is the operator layer around a campus string.

    Colombia is still on the map

    Public line: bioaccess® runs first-in-human studies in Colombia now — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Colombia’s regulatory framework is changing for the better. INVIMA commercial registration remains. Ethics review in both Panama and Colombia runs on each committee’s meeting schedule. The country page’s published per-patient comparison: $12K–$22K vs. $15K–$25K as published on Clinical Trials in Panama. We pick the country the device needs. The founder podcast is Global Trial Accelerators™.

    Frequently asked questions

    Can I contract Universidade Federal Fluminense Niterói directly for a device FIH?

    You can try. The university can discuss investigator interest, local visit costs, and ethics calendars. It cannot, by ranking on ClinicalTrials.gov, become your ANVISA applicant, importer of record, insurer, ISO 14155 monitor, or 21 CFR 812.28 packager. Contract the CRO, then let the CRO activate the site if the site fits.

    Did bioaccess® run the NCT IDs listed here?

    No public bioaccess® case-study page names this university. We will not invent that claim. This page answers the search; it does not claim the studies.

    Is this the same page as UFF Nova Friburgo or Complexo Hospitalar Niterói?

    No. Universidade Federal Fluminense Nova Friburgo and Complexo Hospitalar de Niterói are already published. This page is Universidade Federal Fluminense Niterói only.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT03687047?

    No. We cite it as facility evidence. We will not invent a sponsor or a PI.

    Next step

    If the search that brought you here was this campus, start as the operator: contact bioaccess® or book from First-in-Human CRO. Distinct sibling (do not merge): Universidade Federal Fluminense Nova Friburgo.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • Federal University of Santa Maria: The NCT Campus String Is Not the ANVISA File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM facility sweep (API pull 1 September 2026, 6:32 PM ET) and published bioaccess® country pages. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies. General information, not legal or regulatory advice. Confirm current ANVISA, ethics, and FDA rules with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example NCT IDs those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator. We do not claim Federal University of Santa Maria as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched Federal University of Santa Maria first-in-human, UFSM clinical trial, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria CRO, or “go direct Federal University of Santa Maria,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) in Santa Maria, Brazil, is a real named university-campus string on ClinicalTrials.gov. It is not a first-in-human medical-device CRO, and it is not the operator of the ANVISA file.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the university is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns ANVISA, CEP / CONEP, investigational import, insurance, ISO 14155 monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 812.28 package — plus the option to add Colombia or another Latin American country if this campus is not the only fit. Sponsors who skip the CRO and email the university still have to rebuild that stack. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    This page is the named Santa Maria UFSM campus (Brazil). It is DISTINCT from live Clínica Santa María Santiago (Chile — different country, different regulator). It is not Hospital de Clínicas Porto Alegre / HCPA and not Federal University of São Carlos. Sharing a Santa Maria name is not a license to collapse Chile and Brazil. UFSM is not Clínica Santa María Santiago. UFSM is not HCPA.

    Why the campus name wins the search — and why that is not a CRO

    Device registries write the city, the hospital, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On the 1 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM sweep (interventional studies; all years), this campus sits here after filters:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs from a ClinicalTrials.gov sweep of Latin American facilities pulled 1 September 2026.

    • Federal University of Santa Maria (Santa Maria, Brazil) — canonical NCT string: ALL interventional n=25; DEVICE n=5. Example NCT IDs: NCT02088138, NCT02600182, NCT03154970.

    Example device NCT IDs are the first 3 of the device list.

    Those are unique NCT IDs per facility string + city + country. They are not a count of first-in-human device programs bioaccess® ran. They are how a sponsor searching the hospital name lands on a campus without landing on an operator.

    We cite the IDs as facility evidence. We will not invent a PI. We will not claim bioaccess® ran any of them. No live bioaccess® case-study page names this university as a client site.

    That is the leak: a founder searching Federal University of Santa Maria first-in-human finds ALL n=25 (DEVICE n=5) without finding ANVISA. A named university campus is still a site. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    The site is the site. The CRO is the operator.

    A named university can provide rooms, coordinators, institutional ethics calendars, and investigators who already appear on NCT rows. That is necessary. It is not sufficient for a first-in-human medical device study a U.S. board expects to survive FDA review.

    What the university can typically do when a sponsor “goes direct”:

    • Discuss investigator interest and whether a protocol can sit in an existing service line.
    • Share institutional ethics-committee calendars and hospital research rules.
    • Quote visit, staffing, and local procedure costs for the cases they will physically run.

    What the university is not built to own for an investigational device:

    • ANVISA. Device investigations sit under RDC 837/2023 (dossier in Portuguese: IB, protocol, ICF, insurance, GMP evidence). A hallway conversation at this campus is not that dossier. A hallway conversation at UFSM Santa Maria Brazil is not a Clínica Santa María Santiago Chile file.
    • Investigational import. Ethics letter, investigator’s brochure, and an importation permit — end-to-end work, not a PI email. See importer of record for clinical trial devices in Latin America.
    • Clinical trial insurance. Required. We will not invent a campus-only premium here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, EDC, SAE reporting, and the TMF. The site may run visits. The CRO runs the quality system the FDA will later ask about.
    • The 21 CFR 812.28 package. Foreign data is eligible for FDA submission and review after GCP / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site MSA does not produce it.
    • Multi-country optionality. If enrollment or the indication later needs another Latin American country, a single-hospital MSA will not stretch.

    Going direct to this campus is how you confirm a room. It is not how you open an investigational file.

    How ANVISA actually works (the short version)

    Use Clinical Trials in Brazil: combined ethics + ANVISA typically 6–10 weeks under Law 14874 and RDC 837/2023; CEPs capped at 30 business days; published per-patient range $20,000–$35,000. Trial authorization and later market registration are separate workstreams.

    Ask for a protocol-specific calendar. A hospital email is not ANVISA clearance. bioaccess® manages the file. That is CRO work, not site work.

    All bioaccess® device protocols in this country are run under ISO 14155 and the Declaration of Helsinki. Data is designed to be eligible for FDA submission and review under 21 CFR 812.28 on a case-by-case basis — not a guarantee of clearance or approval. See OUS FIH and FDA IDE.

    Not a critique of the hospital

    Federal University of Santa Maria is a serious named Brazilian campus on the public registry. ALL n=25 and DEVICE n=5 are registry volume, not a punchline. Use the site when the protocol fits. Hire the operator.

    What the CRO still does after you have the campus on a slide

    1. Regulatory-fit, not tourism. This geography is sourced. One campus is not automatically the right room for every indication. bioaccess® still runs trials in Colombia and the rest of the platform.
    2. Protocol, IB, ICF, insurance, and the ANVISA / ethics packet.
    3. Importer of record and device accountability.
    4. Site activation that is more than a tour: contracts, training, investigational product, EDC, monitoring plan. Activate this campus only if it fits the protocol.
    5. ISO 14155 monitoring and the 21 CFR 812.28 narrative so the dataset is built for a later Pre-Sub, IDE, 510(k), De Novo, PMA, or HDE — eligibility, not a promise of FDA action.

    The firm was founded in 2010. That is the operator layer around a campus string.

    Colombia is still on the map

    Public line: bioaccess® runs first-in-human studies in Colombia now — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Colombia’s regulatory framework is changing for the better. INVIMA commercial registration remains. Ethics review in both Panama and Colombia runs on each committee’s meeting schedule. The country page’s published per-patient comparison: $12K–$22K vs. $15K–$25K as published on Clinical Trials in Panama. We pick the country the device needs. The founder podcast is Global Trial Accelerators™.

    Frequently asked questions

    Can I contract Federal University of Santa Maria directly for a device FIH?

    You can try. The university can discuss investigator interest, local visit costs, and ethics calendars. It cannot, by ranking on ClinicalTrials.gov, become your ANVISA applicant, importer of record, insurer, ISO 14155 monitor, or 21 CFR 812.28 packager. Contract the CRO, then let the CRO activate the site if the site fits.

    Did bioaccess® run the NCT IDs listed here?

    No public bioaccess® case-study page names this university. We will not invent that claim. This page answers the search; it does not claim the studies.

    Is this the same page as Clínica Santa María Santiago?

    No. Clínica Santa María Santiago is the Chile campus under ISP. This page is Federal University of Santa Maria (Brazil / ANVISA) only.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT02088138?

    No. We cite it as facility evidence. We will not invent a sponsor or a PI.

    Next step

    If the search that brought you here was this campus, start as the operator: contact bioaccess® or book from First-in-Human CRO. Distinct Chile sibling (do not merge): Clínica Santa María Santiago.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • São Paulo State University São José dos Campos: The NCT Campus String Is Not the ANVISA File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM facility sweep (API pull 1 September 2026, 6:32 PM ET) and published bioaccess® country pages. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies. General information, not legal or regulatory advice. Confirm current ANVISA, ethics, and FDA rules with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example NCT IDs those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator. We do not claim São Paulo State University São José dos Campos as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched Sao Paulo State University Sao Jose dos Campos first-in-human, UNESP Sao Jose dos Campos clinical trial, Sao Paulo State University CRO, or “go direct São Paulo State University São José dos Campos,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. São Paulo State University in São José dos Campos, Brazil, is a real named university-campus string on ClinicalTrials.gov. It is not a first-in-human medical-device CRO, and it is not the operator of the ANVISA file.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the university is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns ANVISA, CEP / CONEP, investigational import, insurance, ISO 14155 monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 812.28 package — plus the option to add Colombia or another Latin American country if this campus is not the only fit. Sponsors who skip the CRO and email the university still have to rebuild that stack. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    This page is the named São José dos Campos São Paulo State University (UNESP) campus. It is DISTINCT from live UNESP Faculdade de Medicina Botucatu (Botucatu — different city). It is not University of Sao Paulo, not Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), and not Medcin Instituto da Pele São Paulo. Sharing a São Paulo State / UNESP name is not a license to collapse Botucatu and São José dos Campos. UNESP São José dos Campos is not UNESP Botucatu. UNESP São José dos Campos is not USP.

    Why the campus name wins the search — and why that is not a CRO

    Device registries write the city, the hospital, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On the 1 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM sweep (interventional studies; all years), this campus sits here after filters:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs from a ClinicalTrials.gov sweep of Latin American facilities pulled 1 September 2026.

    • São Paulo State University (São José dos Campos, Brazil) — canonical NCT string: ALL interventional n=27; DEVICE n=2. Example NCT IDs: NCT05916716, NCT05916742.

    Those are unique NCT IDs per facility string + city + country. They are not a count of first-in-human device programs bioaccess® ran. They are how a sponsor searching the hospital name lands on a campus without landing on an operator.

    We cite the IDs as facility evidence. We will not invent a PI. We will not claim bioaccess® ran any of them. No live bioaccess® case-study page names this university as a client site.

    That is the leak: a founder searching São Paulo State University São José dos Campos first-in-human finds ALL n=27 (DEVICE n=2) without finding ANVISA. A named university campus is still a site. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    The site is the site. The CRO is the operator.

    A named university can provide rooms, coordinators, institutional ethics calendars, and investigators who already appear on NCT rows. That is necessary. It is not sufficient for a first-in-human medical device study a U.S. board expects to survive FDA review.

    What the university can typically do when a sponsor “goes direct”:

    • Discuss investigator interest and whether a protocol can sit in an existing service line.
    • Share institutional ethics-committee calendars and hospital research rules.
    • Quote visit, staffing, and local procedure costs for the cases they will physically run.

    What the university is not built to own for an investigational device:

    • ANVISA. Device investigations sit under RDC 837/2023 (dossier in Portuguese: IB, protocol, ICF, insurance, GMP evidence). A hallway conversation at this campus is not that dossier. A hallway conversation at UNESP São José dos Campos is not a Botucatu Faculdade de Medicina file and is not a USP file.
    • Investigational import. Ethics letter, investigator’s brochure, and an importation permit — end-to-end work, not a PI email. See importer of record for clinical trial devices in Latin America.
    • Clinical trial insurance. Required. We will not invent a campus-only premium here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, EDC, SAE reporting, and the TMF. The site may run visits. The CRO runs the quality system the FDA will later ask about.
    • The 21 CFR 812.28 package. Foreign data is eligible for FDA submission and review after GCP / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site MSA does not produce it.
    • Multi-country optionality. If enrollment or the indication later needs another Latin American country, a single-hospital MSA will not stretch.

    Going direct to this campus is how you confirm a room. It is not how you open an investigational file.

    How ANVISA actually works (the short version)

    Use Clinical Trials in Brazil: combined ethics + ANVISA typically 6–10 weeks under Law 14874 and RDC 837/2023; CEPs capped at 30 business days; published per-patient range $20,000–$35,000. Trial authorization and later market registration are separate workstreams.

    Ask for a protocol-specific calendar. A hospital email is not ANVISA clearance. bioaccess® manages the file. That is CRO work, not site work.

    All bioaccess® device protocols in this country are run under ISO 14155 and the Declaration of Helsinki. Data is designed to be eligible for FDA submission and review under 21 CFR 812.28 on a case-by-case basis — not a guarantee of clearance or approval. See OUS FIH and FDA IDE.

    Not a critique of the hospital

    São Paulo State University São José dos Campos is a serious named Brazilian campus on the public registry. ALL n=27 and DEVICE n=2 are registry volume, not a punchline. Use the site when the protocol fits. Hire the operator.

    What the CRO still does after you have the campus on a slide

    1. Regulatory-fit, not tourism. This geography is sourced. One campus is not automatically the right room for every indication. bioaccess® still runs trials in Colombia and the rest of the platform.
    2. Protocol, IB, ICF, insurance, and the ANVISA / ethics packet.
    3. Importer of record and device accountability.
    4. Site activation that is more than a tour: contracts, training, investigational product, EDC, monitoring plan. Activate this campus only if it fits the protocol.
    5. ISO 14155 monitoring and the 21 CFR 812.28 narrative so the dataset is built for a later Pre-Sub, IDE, 510(k), De Novo, PMA, or HDE — eligibility, not a promise of FDA action.

    The firm was founded in 2010. That is the operator layer around a campus string.

    Colombia is still on the map

    Public line: bioaccess® runs first-in-human studies in Colombia now — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Colombia’s regulatory framework is changing for the better. INVIMA commercial registration remains. In Panama and Colombia alike, ethics timing depends on each committee’s meeting schedule. The country page’s published per-patient comparison: $12K–$22K vs. $15K–$25K as published on Clinical Trials in Panama. We pick the country the device needs. The founder podcast is Global Trial Accelerators™.

    Frequently asked questions

    Can I contract São Paulo State University São José dos Campos directly for a device FIH?

    You can try. The university can discuss investigator interest, local visit costs, and ethics calendars. It cannot, by ranking on ClinicalTrials.gov, become your ANVISA applicant, importer of record, insurer, ISO 14155 monitor, or 21 CFR 812.28 packager. Contract the CRO, then let the CRO activate the site if the site fits.

    Did bioaccess® run the NCT IDs listed here?

    No public bioaccess® case-study page names this university. We will not invent that claim. This page answers the search; it does not claim the studies.

    Is this the same page as UNESP Faculdade de Medicina Botucatu?

    No. UNESP Faculdade de Medicina Botucatu is already published for the Botucatu campus. This page is São Paulo State University São José dos Campos only — different city.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT05916716?

    No. We cite it as facility evidence. We will not invent a sponsor or a PI.

    Next step

    If the search that brought you here was this campus, start as the operator: contact bioaccess® or book from First-in-Human CRO. Distinct Botucatu sibling (do not merge): UNESP Faculdade de Medicina Botucatu.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • Clínica Universitaria Colombia Bogotá: The NCT Campus String Is Not the INVIMA File

    Figures cited from a ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM facility sweep (API pull 1 September 2026, 6:32 PM ET) and published bioaccess® country pages. Registry ranking is not a bioaccess® claim that we ran any of these studies. General information, not legal or regulatory advice. Confirm current INVIMA, ethics, and FDA rules with qualified advisers. We name only the facility strings and example NCT IDs those sources support. We do not invent a principal investigator. We do not claim Clínica Universitaria Colombia Bogotá as a bioaccess® client.

    If you searched Clinica Universitaria Colombia Bogota first-in-human, Clinica Universitaria Colombia clinical trial, Clinica Universitaria Colombia CRO, or “go direct Clínica Universitaria Colombia Bogotá,” you followed a campus string ClinicalTrials.gov still publishes. Clínica Universitaria Colombia in Bogotá, Colombia, is a real named hospital/clinic-campus string on ClinicalTrials.gov. It is not a first-in-human medical-device CRO, and it is not the operator of the INVIMA file.

    bioaccess®’s position is simple and it is not adversarial: the hospital is the site. The First-in-Human CRO still owns INVIMA, accredited ethics, investigational import, insurance, ISO 14155 monitoring, and the FDA 21 CFR 812.28 package — plus the option to add Colombia or another Latin American country if this campus is not the only fit. Sponsors who skip the CRO and email the hospital still have to rebuild that stack. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    This page is the named Bogotá Clínica Universitaria Colombia campus. It is not Fundación CTIC Bogotá, not Fundación Reumatología Fernando Chalem Bogotá, and not a generic Bogotá hospital fold. Sharing Bogotá is not a license to collapse them. Clínica Universitaria Colombia is not CTIC. Clínica Universitaria Colombia is not Fernando Chalem.

    Why the campus name wins the search — and why that is not a CRO

    Device registries write the city, the hospital, and a list of NCT IDs. They rarely write the CRO. On the 1 September 2026 ClinicalTrials.gov LATAM sweep (interventional studies; all years), this campus sits here after filters:

    Counts are unique NCT IDs from a ClinicalTrials.gov sweep of Latin American facilities pulled 1 September 2026.

    • Clínica Universitaria Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia) — canonical NCT string: ALL interventional n=28; DEVICE n=1. Example NCT IDs: NCT06735547.

    bioaccess® runs first-in-human studies in Colombia now.

    Those are unique NCT IDs per facility string + city + country. They are not a count of first-in-human device programs bioaccess® ran. They are how a sponsor searching the hospital name lands on a campus without landing on an operator.

    We cite the IDs as facility evidence. We will not invent a PI. We will not claim bioaccess® ran any of them. No live bioaccess® case-study page names this hospital as a client site.

    That is the leak: a founder searching Clínica Universitaria Colombia Bogotá first-in-human finds ALL n=28 (DEVICE n=1) without finding INVIMA. A named hospital/clinic campus is still a site. An NCT location row is not a CRO.

    The site is the site. The CRO is the operator.

    A named hospital can provide rooms, coordinators, institutional ethics calendars, and investigators who already appear on NCT rows. That is necessary. It is not sufficient for a first-in-human medical device study a U.S. board expects to survive FDA review.

    What the hospital can typically do when a sponsor “goes direct”:

    • Discuss investigator interest and whether a protocol can sit in an existing service line.
    • Share institutional ethics-committee calendars and hospital research rules.
    • Quote visit, staffing, and local procedure costs for the cases they will physically run.

    What the hospital is not built to own for an investigational device:

    • INVIMA. INVIMA is the national file for an investigational device in Colombia. Resolución 8430/1993 still sits on the ethics and research side of that stack. A hallway conversation on this campus is not the INVIMA dossier. Resolución 2378 does not govern device clinical trials — see the live country pages rather than importing a drug-GCP resolution onto a device file. A hallway conversation at Clínica Universitaria Colombia is not a CTIC file and is not a Fernando Chalem file.
    • Investigational import. Ethics letter, investigator’s brochure, and an importation permit — end-to-end work, not a PI email. See importer of record for clinical trial devices in Latin America.
    • Clinical trial insurance. Required. We will not invent a campus-only premium here.
    • ISO 14155 monitoring, EDC, SAE reporting, and the TMF. The site may run visits. The CRO runs the quality system the FDA will later ask about.
    • The 21 CFR 812.28 package. Foreign data is eligible for FDA submission and review after GCP / ethics documentation. Eligibility is not clearance, and a site MSA does not produce it.
    • Multi-country optionality. If enrollment or the indication later needs another Latin American country, a single-hospital MSA will not stretch.

    Going direct to this campus is how you confirm a room. It is not how you open an investigational file.

    How INVIMA actually works (the short version)

    Use CRO in Colombia. Colombia ethics timing depends on each committee’s meeting schedule. Published comparison already on the Panama country page: per-patient $15,000–$25,000. bioaccess® still runs clinical trials in Colombia — local entity, INVIMA clocks in-country. We pick the country the device needs. A hospital email in Bogotá is not INVIMA clearance.

    Ask for a protocol-specific calendar. A hospital email is not INVIMA clearance. bioaccess® manages the file. That is CRO work, not site work.

    All bioaccess® device protocols in this country are run under ISO 14155 and the Declaration of Helsinki. Data is designed to be eligible for FDA submission and review under 21 CFR 812.28 on a case-by-case basis — not a guarantee of clearance or approval. See OUS FIH and FDA IDE.

    Not a critique of the hospital

    Clínica Universitaria Colombia is a serious named Bogotá campus on the public registry. ALL n=28 and DEVICE n=1 are registry volume, not a punchline. Use the site when the protocol fits. Hire the operator. bioaccess® runs first-in-human studies in Colombia now.

    What the CRO still does after you have the campus on a slide

    1. Regulatory-fit, not tourism. This geography is sourced. One campus is not automatically the right room for every indication. bioaccess® still runs trials in Colombia and the rest of the platform.
    2. Protocol, IB, ICF, insurance, and the INVIMA / ethics packet.
    3. Importer of record and device accountability.
    4. Site activation that is more than a tour: contracts, training, investigational product, EDC, monitoring plan. Activate this campus only if it fits the protocol.
    5. ISO 14155 monitoring and the 21 CFR 812.28 narrative so the dataset is built for a later Pre-Sub, IDE, 510(k), De Novo, PMA, or HDE — eligibility, not a promise of FDA action.

    The firm was founded in 2010. That is the operator layer around a campus string.

    Colombia is still on the map

    Public line: bioaccess® runs first-in-human studies in Colombia now — local entity, Miami headquarters, own CRO in Colombia. Colombia’s regulatory framework is changing for the better. INVIMA commercial registration remains. In Panama and Colombia alike, ethics timing depends on each committee’s meeting schedule. The country page’s published per-patient comparison: $12K–$22K vs. $15K–$25K as published on Clinical Trials in Panama. We pick the country the device needs. The founder podcast is Global Trial Accelerators™.

    Frequently asked questions

    Can I contract Clínica Universitaria Colombia Bogotá directly for a device FIH?

    You can try. The hospital can discuss investigator interest, local visit costs, and ethics calendars. It cannot, by ranking on ClinicalTrials.gov, become your INVIMA applicant, importer of record, insurer, ISO 14155 monitor, or 21 CFR 812.28 packager. Contract the CRO, then let the CRO activate the site if the site fits.

    Did bioaccess® run the NCT IDs listed here?

    No public bioaccess® case-study page names this hospital. We will not invent that claim. This page answers the search; it does not claim the studies.

    Is this the same page as Fundación CTIC Bogotá?

    No. Fundación CTIC Bogotá is already published. This page is Clínica Universitaria Colombia Bogotá only.

    Did bioaccess® run NCT06735547?

    No. We cite it as facility evidence. We will not invent a sponsor or a PI.

    Next step

    If the search that brought you here was this campus, start as the operator: contact bioaccess® or book from First-in-Human CRO. Bogotá sibling (do not merge): Fundación CTIC Bogotá.

    Julio G. Martinez-Clark, CEO · bioaccess®

  • Chile’s Easy Market Ends in 2028: Exempt Decree No. 25 and ISP Registration

    Updated October 2026: ISP has not yet issued the technical instruction for Decree No. 25 filings (legal deadline March 19, 2027). This update also corrects the list of products already under mandatory registration and adds the category numbers for each wave.

    Source: This article adapts and expands themes from Julio G. Martinez-Clark’s guest column on Med Device Online (published September 11, 2026): “Chile’s Easy Market Ends In 2028.” Read the full column there; what follows is an original bioaccess® operator brief for manufacturers building a Latin America (LATAM) market-access plan — not a reprint.

    For years, Chile was the LATAM medtech market where a strong distributor and an importer of record (IOR) could often move faster than a full sanitary-registration campaign. Only a short list of named products — latex gloves, condoms, sterile hypodermic needles and syringes, portable automated external defibrillators, HIV in vitro diagnostic (IVD) tests and, more recently, certain blood-bank reagents — required Instituto de Salud Pública (ISP) registration for most commercial paths, according to ISP. In 2021 I asked on Med Device Online how long that “easiest market” window would last. Exempt Decree No. 25 answers it: the easy years run through 2026; the compressed years are 2027–2028.

    What changed: Exempt Decree No. 25

    On March 19, 2026, Chile published Exempt Decree No. 25 in the Diario Oficial (Núm. 44.404, CVE 2781436). The decree pulls 39 numbered medical device and in vitro diagnostic (IVD) types into the sanitary-control regime under Article 111 of the Health Code and Decree Supreme No. 825. ISP describes the set as higher-risk, widely used products tied to ministerial programs, with conformity verification based on quality, safety, and performance documentation.

    The legal machinery was already there — Decree Supreme No. 825 long required conformity-verification certificates for covered devices. Earlier exempt decrees had used that structure for narrow categories (for example sterile hypodermic needles and syringes). The difference now is scale: 39 types, including software as a medical device and multiple IVDs, phased into mandatory ISP sanitary registration.

    Two waves — and why the calendar is not the real clock

    First wave (24 months / 13 types, categories 6 to 18, in Artículo primero transitorio): deadline March 19, 2028. Includes cardiovascular implants and catheters, heart valves, cochlear implants, orthopedic and soft-tissue implants, copper intrauterine devices (IUDs), insulin infusion pumps and accessories, blood bags, and related numbered types in the decree.

    Second wave (36 months / 26 types, categories 1 to 5 and 19 to 39): deadline March 19, 2029. Includes imaging, radiotherapy, dialysis, ventilation, extracorporeal circulation, electrosurgical, ophthalmic, continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), continuous positive airway pressure / bilevel positive airway pressure (CPAP/BPAP), sterilization, oncology software, and several IVD categories.

    Seeing 2028 and assuming “plenty of time” is the first operational mistake. Decree No. 25 gives ISP up to 12 months from publication to issue the technical instruction for conformity verification. Voluntary filing is allowed only after that instruction exists. If the how-to lands near the 12-month mark, manufacturers in the first wave may have roughly one usable year — not two — to interpret requirements, assign ownership, assemble and translate files, close standards gaps, coordinate Chilean partners, submit, answer questions, and obtain registration. That is a compressed portfolio campaign, not a leisurely runway.

    Registration readiness now beats distributor-first strategy

    Chile’s older entry model made distributor selection the first strategic move. After the applicable transition dates, covered products may only be manufactured in Chile, imported, marketed, or distributed with the required conformity verification — which the decree frames as ISP sanitary registration. That shifts bargaining power: if the distributor imports but nobody owns the Chile file, modification path, and continuity if the channel changes, you have built regulatory risk into the sales model.

    Treat this as a LATAM market-access problem, not a one-country paperwork chore. Many manufacturers still use Chile as an early regional entry point because of institutional stability and provider quality. When Chile stops being “import and sell,” the regional launch sequence changes. Map registration and portfolio triage before you lock distribution strategy. (For how bioaccess® packages market-access work, see the market-access rate card — without inventing case-specific rates here.)

    Do not confuse pathways. A clinical-trial authorization or investigational import route is a different file from commercial sanitary registration. It is not 2028 commercial cover. For Chile clinical-operations context, see our Chile clinical trials country page; keep investigational and commercial tracks separate in governance.

    Standards, Spanish dossiers, and postmarket (tecnovigilancia)

    Decree No. 25 points manufacturers toward an explicit standards-based review — including general references such as NCh ISO 16142 (parts 1 and 2), NCh ISO 13485, and NCh ISO 14971, plus product-specific standards for the 39 categories. Chile-ready work is a technical-file readiness exercise, not a local stamp.

    ISP guidance on essential principles of safety and performance already expects devices and IVDs to meet intended performance with risks acceptable relative to benefit, and to ship identification, safety, and use information in castellano (Spanish). Existing FDA, EU MDR, MDSAP, or ISO 13485 packs help — they are not automatically a Chile dossier. Family/group/system filings may not match Chile’s grouping expectations; labels and instructions for use (IFU) may need Spanish updates; legacy lines may have documentation gaps.

    Waiting for ISP’s technical instruction before doing any work wastes the only runway that matters. As of late October 2026, ISP had not issued that technical instruction; the legal deadline is March 19, 2027 (Decreto Exento N° 25, artículos tercero and cuarto transitorios). In early October 2026, ISP published Informational Material No. 1 (Material Informativo N° 1) on the decree: a matrix of the covered categories with in-scope and out-of-scope examples, risk class and transition date. It helps confirm scope. It is not the filing instruction, and voluntary early registration stays closed until that instruction is issued. Final forms can wait; portfolio mapping, standards-gap assessment, Spanish labeling review, and local-role design cannot.

    Postmarket is part of the transition. ISP’s announcement on Decree No. 25 frames the reform as support for postmarket surveillance. Chile already operates tecnovigilancia (technovigilance) enrollment and adverse-event reporting expectations — including precise device identification (lot, model, series, manufacturer, intended use), not generic labels like “catheter” or “valve.” Traceability under related Chilean technical norms belongs in the same operating model as registration. Approval without a Chile-specific complaint, reporting, field-action, and file-sync plan is incomplete market access.

    Five triage moves manufacturers should make now

    1. Map the decree to the live Chile catalog — every model, accessory, software module, kit, and family currently sold, against scope and transition group.
    2. Rank by two-year commercial necessity — some legacy SKUs will not justify registration; platform anchors and consumables drivers often will.
    3. Assess technical-file readiness before the instruction drops — risk management, QMS certificates, Spanish labeling, accessory documentation.
    4. Define local responsibility — who files, maintains, modifies, answers ISP, and owns postmarket vigilance; “the distributor” is an answer only if it protects long-term flexibility.
    5. Budget a multiyear wave — governance, timelines, document owners, escalation — not a one-off filing event.

    What 2021 got right — and what the instruction gap changes

    Directionally, the 2021 Med Device Online column was right: Chile was not going to stay unusually open forever. The vehicle that landed is Decree No. 25 via the Ministry of Health and ISP (with ANDIM in the implementation picture), not the legislative script many watched at the time. Scope is larger than the old four-category mandatory list — 39 numbered types. The underweighted piece in 2021 was the instruction gap: a two-year transition looks generous until the agency has up to a year to write the how-to and early filing is gated on that how-to.

    Chile remains a serious, commercially attractive market with its own regulatory culture. What ended is the assumption that listed device types can enter without a sanitary-registration strategy. Map the catalog now.

    References

    1. Julio G. Martinez-Clark, “Chile’s Easy Market Ends In 2028,” Med Device Online, September 11, 2026 — https://www.meddeviceonline.com/doc/chile-s-easy-market-ends-in-0001
    2. Julio G. Martinez-Clark, “Medtech In Chile: Currently Latin America’s Easiest Market, But For How Long?” Med Device Online — https://www.meddeviceonline.com/doc/medtech-in-chile-currently-latin-america-s-easiest-market-but-for-how-long-0001
    3. Ministerio de Salud de Chile, Decreto Exento N° 25, Diario Oficial March 19, 2026, Núm. 44.404, CVE 2781436 — https://www.bcn.cl/leychile/navegar?idNorma=1222514
    4. Ministerio de Salud de Chile, Decreto Supremo N° 825 — https://www.bcn.cl/leychile/navegar?idNorma=141005
    5. Instituto de Salud Pública de Chile, announcement on the new norm regulating 39 medical devices including IVDs — ISP notice

    Disclaimer: This post is general information for educational and commercial-planning purposes. It is not legal advice and is not a substitute for advice from qualified Chilean counsel or confirmation with ISP on current filing instructions, product classification, or transition applicability to a specific portfolio.

    bioaccess® helps manufacturers sequence LATAM market access — registration ownership, IOR design, and distributor strategy — so Chile’s 2028/2029 waves do not become a last-minute scramble. Contact bioaccess®