Medical Electronic Data Technology Enhancement for Consumers’ Health Act or the MEDTECH Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to exclude from regulation as a medical device:
administrative, operational, or financial records software used in health care settings;
products intended for health maintenance outside of medical treatment;
electronic patient records, excluding diagnostic image data, provided that related software is validated prior to marketing, consistent with the standards for devices;
software for clinical laboratory test reports; and
software that provides medical recommendations and the basis for those recommendations to health care professionals, with exceptions for products related to regulated devices.
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Dec 4, 2014
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.