What’s Wrong with the Proposed FDA MDDS Rule

The FDA has proposed to reclassify Medical Device Data Systems (MDDS) from a default class III to class I. (You can read the proposed rule here, and the public comments here.) This is based on the belief that “risks to health from this device would be caused by inadequate software quality. Specifically, the risk to health would be that incorrect medical device data is stored, retrieved, transferred, exchanged, or displayed, resulting in incorrect treatment or diagnosis of the patient.” In my op