Medical software

Medical software is any software item or system used within a medical context. This can include:

  • Standalone software used for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.
  • Software used by health care providers to reduce paperwork and offer digital services to patients, e.g., a patient portal.
  • Software embedded in a medical device (often referred to as "medical device software").
  • Software that drives a medical device or determines how it is used.
  • Software that acts as an accessory to a medical device.
  • Software used in the design, production, and testing of a medical device (or)
  • Software that provides quality control management of a medical device.
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