FDA-cleared profile
Butterfly Network, Inc.
Butterfly iQ3 is a general-purpose portable ultrasound system for adult and pediatric imaging, peripheral vessels, small organs, breast, thyroid, scrotum, cardiac, abdominal, lung, urologic, and procedural-guidance workflows.
Product overview
Butterfly iQ3 is a general-purpose portable ultrasound system for adult and pediatric imaging, peripheral vessels, small organs, breast, thyroid, scrotum, cardiac, abdominal, lung, urologic, and procedural-guidance workflows.
Overview status: Field-derived fact summary This section is assembled from the sourced field records below; it is not a source-reviewed editorial overview.
Clinical details
Start with the authorized purpose, then verify how it fits your service line and reading workflow.
Exact FDA decision-summary packet reviewed on 2026-09-19; existing wording is supported without expansion.
The packet names qualified and trained healthcare professionals and separately allows medical students under physician supervision; it does not establish the dossier's specific role list.
This replaces the dossier's live/imported data wording with the packet's device and acquisition description.
The packet directly states viewing and measuring ultrasound imagery; it does not state the dossier's reports output.
Previous value withdrawn: The exact FDA decision-summary packet reviewed on 2026-09-19 does not establish this claim.
Regulatory identity
The FDA listing establishes the regulatory identity. It does not by itself establish local workflow fit, pricing, security, or performance in your environment.
Exact FDA decision-summary packet reviewed on 2026-09-19; existing wording is supported without expansion.
Exact FDA decision-summary packet reviewed on 2026-09-19; existing wording is supported without expansion.
Implementation
Use these fields to structure a vendor demo, security review, and implementation estimate.
Current vendor materials are product-family evidence for K232808; confirm the exact cleared version, enabled options, deployment, and local compatibility.
Current vendor materials are product-family evidence for K232808; confirm the exact cleared version, enabled options, deployment, and local compatibility.
Public materials reviewed for this exact release do not establish the complete security posture. Request data-flow, identity, audit, encryption, retention, remote-access, vulnerability-management, backup, and incident-response evidence.
Current vendor materials are product-family evidence for K232808; confirm the exact cleared version, enabled options, deployment, and local compatibility.
Map the installed model, build, options, population, anatomy, inputs, outputs, and enabled AI functions to K232808 before acceptance.
exact submission · checked 2026-09-03Later product-family features are not evidence that this cleared release includes them.
Validate supported probes and host devices, patient matching, DICOM or local export, PACS measurements, worklist, report transfer, and offline or downtime behavior.
product family · checked 2026-09-03Test representative identifiers, orientation, geometry, measurements, units, routing, failure handling, and round trips locally. Vendor statements are current product-family context; confirm the exact cleared release and installed options.
Use a signed local test set for the supported population and workflow. Include common and difficult cases, exclusions, acquisition variation, failed or low-quality inputs, reviewer overrides, and downstream effects. AI-assisted measurements, views, and guidance do not replace image-quality assessment or clinician interpretation; supported probes, host devices, populations, and features differ by release.
exact submission · checked 2026-09-03Define stop-use, escalation, rollback, and revalidation triggers before production use.
Model capital and recurring cost against net staff time after review, throughput, repeat imaging or rework, room time, consumables, infrastructure, training, service, downtime, upgrade, and replacement costs.
product family · checked 2026-09-03No exact-product price was found in the reviewed public material; vendor productivity claims are scenario inputs, not guaranteed local savings.
Monitor by exact hardware, software, model, and algorithm version; patient population; anatomy; protocol; operator; input quality; output edits or overrides; failed studies; repeat acquisition or rework; downstream impact; downtime; incidents; recalls; and updates. Track these product-specific limits: AI-assisted measurements, views, and guidance do not replace image-quality assessment or clinician interpretation; supported probes, host devices, populations, and features differ by release.
product family · checked 2026-09-03Revalidate after material software, hardware, model, protocol, interface, or clinical-policy changes. Vendor statements are current product-family context; confirm the exact cleared release and installed options.
Evidence
Metrics are shown only when they are tied to a source, endpoint, population, and tested product version. Candidate literature without exact product and version linkage is not shown as product evidence.
Sensitivity is not the primary endpoint for this system, reconstruction, segmentation, guidance, or quantitative function. Use the task-specific evidence below.
Specificity is not the primary endpoint for this system, reconstruction, segmentation, guidance, or quantitative function. Use the task-specific evidence below.
No contextualized exact-version metric has completed evidence review. Regulatory-document values, when available, are shown above with their limitations.
K232808
Manufacturer evidence submitted for FDA clearance or approval; local clinical, technical, and workflow acceptance remains necessary.
1 unlinked candidate evidence record is retained for source review and excluded from this evidence display.
Costs and setup
These are common procurement questions; unknown values remain visible until a source supports them.
No public list price for the exact cleared configuration was found. Obtain a written quote separating hardware or license basis, implementation, interfaces, infrastructure, training, service, upgrades, renewal, consumables, and exit costs.
No separate named-product payment identified in reviewed public material
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · United StatesBuild a local total-cost and value model; do not infer reimbursement from FDA clearance or approval.
Safety and lifecycle
Recall and adverse-event records are shown only after product matching. Adverse-event reports do not establish incidence or causality.
Exact-identifier review does not prove absence of all product-family safety signals.
Buyer worksheet
Research record
This audit distinguishes completed source review from fields that have not yet been researched.
Recovered from the prior exact-submission extraction and normalized under the current provenance rules. Exact FDA support assessed on 2026-09-19. Packet-supported facts: purpose, modality, anatomy; packet-unavailable facts: intendedUsers, input, output, limitations, evidenceSummary. Candidate literature and postmarket candidates remain in their existing review state. Automated exact-name discovery found 0 PubMed and 1 ClinicalTrials.gov candidate records. Candidates require human product and version matching; zero candidates is not evidence that no studies exist. Native FDA recall identifiers produced 0 postmarket candidate records; 0 have been reviewed (0 published, 0 rejected) and 0 remain unreviewed.
Candidate leads remain unpublished until a human confirms the exact product and tested version.
Source classes: fda ai list, fda decision summary, fda decision material, vendor product page, peer reviewed literature, clinical trial registry, reimbursement policy, fda device recall, fda decision summary packet, pubmed, clinical trials, openfda device recall
Sources & history
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Scope: purpose, modality, anatomy, intendedUsers, input, output, evidenceSummary
Scope: regulatoryIdentity, modalityContext
Scope: evidenceDiscovery
Scope: evidenceDiscovery, studyStatus
Scope: coverage, codingContext
Scope: recallDiscovery, nativeSubmissionMatching
Scope: productFamilyContext, workflowRole, implementationCapabilities
Scope: productFamilyContext, integration, deployment
Scope: evidenceStudies, productFamilyContext, evidenceDiscovery
Regulatory record
510(k)
Research record
fda record reviewed
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