The Incredible Shrinking Exemption: FDA Final CDS Guidance Would Significantly Narrow the Scope of Exempt Clinical Decision Support Software Under the Cures Act
FDA Law Blog
OCTOBER 10, 2022
The CDS Guidance interprets the “medical software” carve-out of the 21st Century Cures Act (2016) as it pertains to Clinical Decision Support (CDS) software functions. The statute achieves this through disclosure of information by the software manufacturer about the “basis for” the recommendations made by the software.
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