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Active devices that are software and programmed – relevant health professional
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Is the device intended to:
- Provide information to a relevant health professional for them to make a diagnosis of a disease or condition that is:
- a serious disease or serious condition, or
- a disease or condition that may pose a moderate risk to public health
- Provide information that is to be used for monitoring the state or progression of a disease or condition, or parameters that could indicate that:
- the person or another person may be in danger (but not immediate danger), or
- that there may be a moderate risk to public health
- Recommend a treatment or intervention, where the treatment or intervention, or its absence, may:
- be harmful to a person (but not lead to their death or a severe deterioration in their state of a health), or
- pose a moderate risk to public health
- Provide information as therapy to a person that may cause harm to the person (not serious harm, death or a severe deterioration in the state of the person’s health)
- Administer or exchange energy to or from a patient (where the energy is non-hazardous)
- Supply energy that will be absorbed by a patient’s body (other than a device that is intended only to illuminate the patient’s body in the visible spectrum)
- Image in vivo distribution of radiopharmaceuticals in a patient
- Used to allow direct diagnosis or monitoring of vital physiological processes of a patient (other than those that could result in immediate danger to the patient)
- Used to administer or remove medicine, body liquids or other substances (that are non-hazardous) to or from a patient.
Question
Is the active medical device intended to be used for any of the above purposes?