Software functions that are used in active patient monitoring to analyze patient specific medical device data and therefore are the focus of the fda s regulatory oversight including software.
Software as a medical device examples fda.
The mdcg gives examples of such medical device software mdsw.
Standalone software that is used for diagnosis or treatment including software to evaluate the risk of trisomy 21 in a child based on serum markers in the mother.
The fda may also review and clear modifications to medical devices including software as a medical device depending on the significance or risk posed to patients of that modification.
May be used in combination with other products including medical devices.
The international medical device regulators forum imdrf of which the us fda is a member describes samd as software that may work on general purpose non medical computing platforms.
Software as a medical device may be interfaced with other medical devices including hardware medical devices and other software as a medical device software as well as general purpose software.