Watchlists and alerts

Watchlists and regulatory change alerts for the records you own

Regulatory monitoring fails on volume. Watchlists narrow eight regulator sources down to the records your team actually owns, and each refresh reports only what moved.

Who it is for: Anyone accountable for a portfolio: regulatory affairs, quality, post-market surveillance and distributor compliance.

What is in the workspace today

Recall records monitored

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Licences monitored

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FDA authorizations monitored

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Change detection, not re-notification

Each refresh compares against the last good snapshot with deterministic rules — no model inference. An unchanged source produces no events and no alerts. A genuine change produces exactly one event and one alert, and concurrent refreshes are serialized so nothing is duplicated.

  • Licence status, identifier added or removed, recall matched, FDA decision, device name, holding company, product code and class changes
  • Company changes: published name, address and country
  • Info, Attention and Critical severity, with unread tracking and read/unread filtering

Delivery you can configure

Each alert category can be immediate, a daily digest, a weekly digest or off. A weekly watchlist summary goes to the address you choose. Messages sit in a queue with retries at 5 minutes, 30 minutes, 2 hours, 6 hours and 24 hours, are never sent twice, and are marked undeliverable with the reason after six failures.

Private to your account

Watchlists, alerts and digests belong to the account that created them. Roles — Admin, Member and ReadOnly — are enforced on the server, not in the browser, and one account's activity never appears in another's feed or digest.

Where the data comes from

Only published regulator records, retrieved from official sources. Every screen links back to the record it came from.

What this module does not do

  • Licences and recalls refresh daily; authorizations, standards and enforcement weekly. Alerts follow those schedules, so this is scheduled monitoring rather than a real-time feed.
  • Browser and mobile push for critical recall matches, and email alert dispatch, are available on paid plans. Outbound email begins once a verified sender domain is connected.

Questions

Will we get the same alert twice?
No. An unchanged source produces no events, each genuine change produces exactly one alert, concurrent refreshes are serialized, and queued emails are deduplicated before sending.
What can we watch?
Health Canada devices, licences and companies, and FDA submissions. Adding a record confirms it by name; if a record has since left the imported data, you are told rather than shown an empty entry.
Do alerts include email and push?
Yes on paid plans: per-category email (immediate, daily, weekly or off), a weekly watchlist summary, and browser and mobile push for critical recall matches, including sound and badge.

MedTech Signal organizes published regulator records for information only. Confirm anything you rely on against the linked regulator record.