About Artifakt Vigilance

    Search vigilance databases at once.

    Artifakt Vigilance compresses hours of FDA MAUDE / BfArM / MHRA / literature crawling into one query, with results you can download as a CSV or Excel record. Free for the community, with no account needed.

    What it does

    Search 8 vigilance databases

    Adverse events, recalls and literature across FDA, BfArM, MHRA, Health Canada and PubMed in one query.

    Keep a record of each search

    Download any search as a CSV or Excel report recording, for each source, the request as sent, its count, the records held and its state, with an identifier and a content hash, to file with your post-market surveillance records.

    No account needed

    Search straight away. We never ask for your name or email address, and nothing you search is tied to an account.

    Data sources

    Eight databases, one query.

    Selected per search via the source toggles on the landing page.

    FDA MAUDE

    The largest public database of medical-device adverse events. Millions of records, updated weekly.

    FDA Recalls

    Device recalls and corrections posted by the US FDA, each linked to its FDA record, which gives its class.

    BfArM (Germany)

    Field-corrective-action notices from the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices.

    MHRA (United Kingdom)

    Field safety notices, device safety information and National Patient Safety Alerts from the UK regulator. Medicines recalls are left out. A National Patient Safety Alert can concern a medicine.

    Health Canada

    Medical-device recalls, field safety corrective actions and safety alerts from the Recalls and Safety Alerts database, dated by when Health Canada last updated each notice.

    PubMed

    Biomedical literature from the US National Library of Medicine. Clinical studies, case reports, reviews.

    Europe PMC

    European-focused scientific literature - complements PubMed with additional open-access publications. It includes PubMed's records, so an article can appear under both.

    ClinicalTrials.gov

    Registry of clinical studies for PMCF monitoring. Ongoing and completed device trials.

    The Artifakt context

    Built by a regulatory consultancy.

    Artifakt Vigilance is built and maintained by Artifakt Medical, an AI-native regulatory consultancy for software and AI medical devices. Vigilance is the free part of that work: a no-signup tool that anyone in regulatory affairs can run a search on.

    Alongside the consultancy, Artifakt is building Artifakt Platform, an AI platform in development. Founded by Oskar Slavicek. Vigilance is operated by Artifakt Medical Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 17385956.

    Privacy

    We hold the minimum we need to make this work.

    What we store

    • - Your search terms, date range and selected databases, with no name, email address or account attached
    • - A salted SHA-256 hash of your IP address, only for the 10-per-day search limit and abuse protection (the raw IP is never written to our database)
    • - If you accept analytics cookies, coarse usage events, never your search terms

    What we don't

    • - Browsing outside the Artifakt Vigilance app
    • - Third-party analytics / tracking pixels (no Google Analytics, no Meta Pixel, no Hotjar)
    • - The raw text of regulator query responses past a short in-memory cache

    Full detail in the Privacy policy. Requests for a copy or erasure of your data go to hello@artifaktmedical.com.

    Contact

    Questions, feedback, partnerships?

    We reply to every email - usually within a working day.

    hello@artifaktmedical.com