FDA-cleared profile
Philips Medical Systems
EPIQ Series and Affiniti Series Diagnostic Ultrasound Systems are general-purpose diagnostic ultrasound systems for the labeled fetal, abdominal, pelvic, small-organ, cephalic, cardiac, vascular, musculoskeletal, thoracic, and urologic applications by trained professionals.
Clinical fit
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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.
Implementation
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Normalized from the prior exact-submission review. Confirm interface versions and local compatibility during technical evaluation.
The exact public FDA decision material does not establish the complete deployment topology, hosting responsibility, availability, upgrade path, or service contract.
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.
Monitoring guidance is buyer-facing implementation guidance derived from the exact cleared scope; it is not a claim that the FDA package provides a live monitoring service.
Map installed model, build, options, population, anatomy, inputs, outputs, and enabled functions to K211597 before acceptance.
exact submission · checked 2026-09-04Later product-family features are not evidence that this cleared release includes them.
The exact public deployment topology remains incomplete; establish hosting responsibility, data flow, availability, upgrade, service, and downtime boundaries locally.
exact submission · checked 2026-09-04FDA-described deployment boundaries do not establish current hosting contracts, security controls, uptime, or local qualification.
The exact public integration contract remains incomplete; establish and test supported input, output, identity, routing, archive, and downtime behavior locally.
exact submission · checked 2026-09-04Test representative identifiers, orientation, geometry, measurements, units, routing, failure handling, and round trips locally.
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. Supported probes, host devices, populations, applications, and optional functions vary by exact release; image-quality assessment and clinical interpretation remain with qualified professionals.
exact submission · checked 2026-09-04Define 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 2026-09-04No exact-product price was found in the reviewed public material; productivity or value claims require local evidence.
Monitor K211597 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: Supported probes, host devices, populations, applications, and optional functions vary by exact release; image-quality assessment and clinical interpretation remain with qualified professionals.
exact submission · checked 2026-09-04Revalidate after material software, hardware, model, protocol, interface, or clinical-policy changes. general-purpose diagnostic ultrasound system limits remain submission-specific.
Evidence
Metrics are shown only when they are tied to a source, endpoint, population, and tested product version.
Sensitivity is not promoted as a product-wide endpoint for this device or software function. Compare only an exact endpoint, threshold, population, version, and source if later verified.
Specificity is not promoted as a product-wide endpoint for this device or software function. Compare only an exact endpoint, threshold, population, version, and source if later verified.
No contextualized exact-version metric has completed evidence review. Regulatory-document values, when available, are shown above with their limitations.
FDA 510(k) substantial-equivalence decision evidence and product verification described in the exact submission. · Fetus; abdomen; pelvis; small organs; head; heart; peripheral vessels; musculoskeletal; thoracic; and urologic anatomy
exact submission · Tested version: EPIQ Series Diagnostic Ultrasound System, Affiniti Series Diagnostic Ultrasound System configuration described in K211597 · Sponsor or vendor studyK211597
Manufacturer evidence submitted for the exact FDA decision. It is not independent clinical validation, and local technical, clinical, privacy, security, and workflow acceptance remains necessary.
Economics and lifecycle
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 StatesThis is not a product-specific reimbursement determination. Build a local total-cost and value model and verify payer, site-of-service, coding, and coverage assumptions independently.
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-name and exact-submission searches in the checked 2026-09-01 indexes returned no PubMed records and no ClinicalTrials.gov records for K211597; review status is candidate_review_pending. Literature and registry candidates remain quarantined unless exact submission and tested-version linkage is established. The checked recall disposition is no exact-submission recall record was promoted; ambiguous or family-only candidates are not published. Pricing, complete security architecture, contracted deployment, exact reimbursement, and local interoperability remain unverified. Automated exact-name discovery found 0 PubMed and 0 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, peer reviewed literature, clinical trial registry, reimbursement policy, fda device recall, pubmed, clinical trials, openfda device recall
Sources
Sources accessed through 2026-09-04.
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