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. 1997 Nov-Dec;4(6):442–457. doi: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040442

Table 2A.

Proposed Classes of Clinical Software Exemptions and Regulation by Category of Software

Type of Software Description
Class A Software exempt from FDA regulation; local SOC monitoring optional. (Please refer to definitions of risk categories and regulatory classes in Table 1A,1B.)
Category 0 Informational or generic products
Category 0 Non-clinical systems
Any system not directly involved in patient care and any system not serving as an integral component of a larger system providing patient care—i.e., systems that do not play any role in suggesting diagnoses, suggesting prognoses, or suggesting or implementing orders or treatments.