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Field notes from the team.
Integrations, deployment learnings, and the thinking behind how we build clinical AI for the NHS.
- 30 June 2026
How we operate as a Class IIa device
Define performance before you claim it, build the instruments to measure it, and sustain both for as long as the device is live. An account of the QMS, the external audit, and the evaluators we built from scratch.
TORTUS team · · Engineering, Regulation - 30 June 2026
What Class IIa AVT means for your organisation
Classification is the most useful lens for appraising ambient voice: it tells you whether the expert evaluation has been done, where the risk will sit, and whether the foundation can grow with you.
TORTUS team · · Procurement, Regulation - 29 June 2026
Why TORTUS pursued Class IIa device certification
Why AVT carries device-level risk, why only external certification evidences that the risk is controlled, and why the assurance that matters lives in the development process, not the output you can see.
TORTUS team · · Safety, Regulation