We will have limited operations from 15:00 Wednesday 24 December 2025 (AEDT) until Friday 2 January 2026. Find out how to contact us during the holiday period.
Decision tree
Heading
Active devices that are software and programmed
Body
Is the device intended for one or more of the following?
- Diagnose or screen for a disease or condition that:
- would NOT lead to the death of a person, or a severe deterioration in the state of a person’s health without urgent treatment, or
- is NOT a serious disease or serious condition,
- does NOT pose a risk to public health
- Monitor the state or progression of a disease, condition or parameter that does not indicate whether:
- the person or another person may be in danger (but not immediate danger), or
- there may be a moderate risk to public health
- Specify or recommend a treatment or intervention, where the treatment or intervention, or its absence:
- would not cause harm to a person, or
- does NOT pose a 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?