Medical Software

A Medical Software is a software application that is intended to be used for medical purposes.

• Example(s):
  • Software as a Medical Device (SaMD),
  • Decentralized Clinical Trial Software-as-a-Service (DCT SaaS) System,
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS),
  • Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS),
  • Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
• See: Medical Device, Medical Diagnosis, Medical Therapy, Medical Wearable Device, Biosensor, Telemedicine, Decentralized Clinical Trial, Direct-to-Patient Digital Trials Platform, End-to-End Clinical Research Platform.

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References

2021

• (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/medical_software Retrieved:2021-4-4.
  • Medical software is any software item or system used within a medical context, such as:
    • standalone software used for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes;
    • 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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