K193415 · Physiq, Inc. · DPS · Jun 11, 2020 · Cardiovascular
Device Facts
Record ID
K193415
Device Name
physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module
Applicant
Physiq, Inc.
Product Code
DPS · Cardiovascular
Decision Date
Jun 11, 2020
Decision
SESE
Submission Type
Traditional
Regulation
21 CFR 870.2340
Device Class
Class 2
Attributes
Software as a Medical Device
Indications for Use
The physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module (Version 3.0) is intended for use by a physician or other qualified medical professionals for the calculation of heart rate variability, the detection of atrial fibrillation and determination of respiration rate using ambulatory ECG and triaxial accelerometer data. The physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module is intended to be integrated by the customer organization into an end-to-end system (biosensor data collection to clinician display). The physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module may only be used with FDA-cleared, chest-worn biosensors using "wet electrode" technology that capture single-lead digital ECG data at 125Hz or higher and integrated triaxial accelerometer data at 15Hz or higher and that are recorded in a compatible format for analysis. The physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module is for use in adult patients in subacute clinical settings for remote patient monitoring. The physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module is not for use in patients requiring life-supporting or life-sustaining systems or as ECG or respiration alarm devices.
Device Story
Software-only library (Python) for remote patient monitoring; integrates into customer-managed end-to-end systems. Inputs: single-lead ECG (≥125Hz) and triaxial accelerometer data (≥15Hz) from FDA-cleared, chest-worn, wet-electrode biosensors. Processing: automated analysis of ECG/accelerometer signals to calculate heart rate, heart rate variability, respiration rate, and detect atrial fibrillation. Outputs: vital sign data returned to middleware for clinician display. Used in subacute clinical/non-clinical settings; operated by physicians/qualified professionals. Benefits: provides supplemental vital sign monitoring to support clinical decision-making without replacing standard of care.
Clinical Evidence
Bench testing only. Performance of Heartbeat Detector, Heart Rate, Heart Rate Variability, Atrial Fibrillation, and Respiration Rate algorithms evaluated. Heart rate variability and atrial fibrillation algorithms tested per ANSI/AAMI EC57:2012. Respiration rate algorithm performance validated against predicate device criteria. Results demonstrate comparable performance to the predicate.
Technological Characteristics
Software-only library (Python). Requires input of time-series ECG (≥125Hz) and triaxial accelerometry (≥15Hz) from external FDA-cleared biosensors. Deterministic algorithms for QRS detection, heart rate, heart rate variability, atrial fibrillation detection, and respiration rate. No ECG morphological analysis or arrhythmia classification beyond AFib. Callable API interface.
Indications for Use
Indicated for adult patients in subacute clinical settings for remote patient monitoring to calculate heart rate variability, detect atrial fibrillation, and determine respiration rate. Not for use in patients requiring life-supporting/sustaining systems or as an alarm device.
Regulatory Classification
Identification
An electrocardiograph is a device used to process the electrical signal transmitted through two or more electrocardiograph electrodes and to produce a visual display of the electrical signal produced by the heart.
Predicate Devices
physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module, Version 2.0 (K183322)
Submission Summary (Full Text)
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June 11, 2020
physIQ, Inc George Hides Vice President, Regulatory and Clinical Affairs 300 E. 5th Avenue, Suite 105 Naperville, Illinois 60563
Re: K193415
Trade/Device Name: physIO Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module Regulation Number: 21 CFR 870.2340 Regulation Name: Electrocardiograph Regulatory Class: Class II Product Code: DPS Dated: May 8, 2020 Received: May 11, 2020
## Dear George Hides:
We have reviewed your Section 510(k) premarket notification of intent to market the device referenced above and have determined the device is substantially equivalent (for the indications for use stated in the enclosure) to legally marketed predicate devices marketed in interstate commerce prior to May 28, 1976, the enactment date of the Medical Device Amendments, or to devices that have been reclassified in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (Act) that do not require approval of a premarket approval application (PMA). You may, therefore, market the device, subject to the general controls provisions of the Act. Although this letter refers to your product as a device, please be aware that some cleared products may instead be combination products. The 510(k) Premarket Notification Database located at https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfpmn/pmn.cfm identifies combination product submissions. The general controls provisions of the Act include requirements for annual registration, listing of devices, good manufacturing practice, labeling, and prohibitions against misbranding and adulteration. Please note: CDRH does not evaluate information related to contract liability warranties. We remind you, however, that device labeling must be truthful and not misleading.
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Sincerely,
Jennifer Shih Assistant Director (Acting) Division of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Diagnostics, and Monitoring Devices Office of Cardiovascular Devices Office of Product Evaluation and Quality Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Enclosure
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## Indications for Use
510(k) Number (if known) K193415
Device Name
physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module (3.0)
#### Indications for Use (Describe)
The physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module (Version 3.0) is intended for use by a physician or other qualified medical professionals for the calculation of heart rate variability, the detection of atrial fibrillation and determination of respiration rate using ambulatory ECG and triaxial accelerometer data. The physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module is intended to be integrated by the customer organization into an end-to-end system (biosensor data collection to clinician display).
The physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module may only be used with FDA-cleared, chest-worn biosensors using "wet electrode" technology that capture single-lead digital ECG data at 125Hz or higher and integrated triaxial accelerometer data at 15Hz or higher and that are recorded in a compatible format for analysis.
The physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module is for use in adult patients in subacute clinical settings for remote patient monitoring. The physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module is not for use in patients requiring life-supporting or life-sustaining systems or as ECG or respiration alarm devices.
Type of Use (Select one or both, as applicable)
| <span> <b> <span style="font-size:16px;">☑</span> Prescription Use (Part 21 CFR 801 Subpart D) </b> </span> | <span> <b> <span style="font-size:16px;">□</span> Over-The-Counter Use (21 CFR 801 Subpart C) </b> </span> |
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#### 510(k) Notification K193415
#### GENERAL INFORMATION
## Applicant:
physIQ Inc. 300 E. 5th Avenue Suite 105 Naperville IL 60563 USA Phone: (800) 561-7902
#### Contact Person:
George Allen Hides Vice President, Regulatory and Clinical Affairs physIQ Inc. 300 E. 5th Avenue Suite 105 Naperville IL 60563 USA Email: george.hides@physiq.com Phone: (312) 654-1010
#### Trade/Proprietary Name:
physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module (Version 3.0)
#### Generic/Common Name:
Electrocardiograph
#### Classification:
Class II, 21 CFR§870.2340 (Electrocardiograph)
# Product Code:
DbS
# Predicate Device"
physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module, Version 2.0 (K183322) physIQ Inc.
## Indications for Use:
The physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module (Version 3.0) is intended for use by a physician or other qualified medical professionals for the calculation of heart rate variability, the detection of atrial fibrillation and determination of respiration rate using ambulatory ECG and triaxial accelerometer data. The physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module is intended to be integrated by the customer organization into an end-to-end system (biosensor data collection to clinician display).
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The physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module may only be used with FDA-cleared, chest-worn biosensors using "wet electrode" technology that capture single-lead digital ECG data at 125Hz or higher and integrated triaxial accelerometer data at 15Hz or higher and that are recorded in a compatible format for analysis.
The physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module is for use in adult patients in subacute clinical and nonclinical settings for remote patient monitoring. The physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module is not for use in patients requiring life-supporting or life-sustaining systems or as ECG or respiration alarm devices.
#### Product Description:
The physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module (Version 3.0) is a computerized all-software callable function library in the Python programming language that is designed for calculating heart rate and heart rate variability and for detecting atrial fibrillation and determining respiration rate determined by automated analysis of any single electrocardiogram (ECG) channel collected by commercially-available ECG biosensor devices with triaxial accelerometers. The physlQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module (3.0) will be integrated by the customer organization into an end-to-end system (biosensor data collection to clinician display) that makes calls into the product, most typically via a Python middleware script. The "middleware" accesses the source ECG and triaxial accelerometer data from a customer's data collection system, most likely via its own application programming interface (API), and makes calls to the physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module (3.0) to input ECG and triaxial accelerometer data for processing into the vital sign outputs of the product. These outputs are returned to the middleware, which may insert these results into a downstream monitoring system for clinical use.
#### Performance Testing:
The physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module (Version 3.0) contains a collection of algorithms intended to be applied to ECG data collected by commercially-available ECG biosensor devices with triaxial accelerometers in an ambulatory setting. The collection consists of Heartbeat Detector, Heart Rate, Heart Rate Variability, Atrial Fibrillation and Respiration Rate algorithms. Performance testing following guidelines of ANSI/AAMI EC572012: Testing and Reporting Performance Results of Cardiac Rhythm and ST segment Medsurement Algorithms was applied to heart rate variability, and atrial fibrillation algorithms in a previous Traditional 510(k) submission for the physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module (K183322) predicate device. There are no FDA-recognized consensus standards to assess the performance of respiration rate algorithms. In the predicate submission for the physIQ Heart Rhythm Module (K183322), performance validation was provided for the determination of respiration rate. In this submission, performance of all algorithms including Heartbeat Detector, Heart Rate, Heart Rate Variability, Atrial Fibrillation, and Respiration Rate have been repeated and evaluated using the modified technology. The respiration rate algorithm met its corresponding acceptance criteria and performed comparably to the predicate device.
#### Substantial Equivalence:
The physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module (3.0) has the same intended use to the predicate device, the physlQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module (2.0). Both calculate heart rate variability, detects atrial fibrillation and determine respiration rate from a single-lead ECG and triaxial accelerometry. The patient population for both the physlQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module (3.0) and the predicate device includes subacute adults who do not require life-supporting or life-sustaining systems or device alarms. Of note, the intended uses of the physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module (3.0) and the predicate device are to supplement standard of care and not to replace or substitute for
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#### K193415
routine vital signs monitoring. Both the physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module (3.0) and the predicate have similar technological characteristics as both are all software medical devices and require input of time-series ECG from commercially available devices in a format acceptable for signal processing and algorithm function as well as triaxial accelerometry. Any differences in technological characteristics have been analyzed and addressed through performance validation testing and hazard analysis. Performance testing demonstrates that the physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module (3.0) meets its intended use and any differences in technological characteristics between the physlQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module (3.0) and the predicate device do not raise any new issues and is substantially equivalent to the predicate device.
The following 510(k) Summary is identical in terms of the characterization of device functionality, with the exception of the updated software version number.
| Device Functionality | physIQ Heart Rhythm and<br>Respiration Module<br>(Version 2.0) | physIQ Heart Rhythm and<br>Respiration Module<br>(Version 3.0) |
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| Comparison | 510(k)<br>Predicate Device | 510(k)<br>Candidate Device |
| Manufacturer | physIQ Inc. | physIQ Inc. |
| 510(k) Number | K183322 | K193415 |
| Classification | Class II,<br>21 CFR §870.2340 | Class II,<br>21 CFR §870.2340 |
| Product Code | DPS | DPS |
| Indications for Use | The physIQ Heart Rhythm and<br>Respiration Module (Version 2.0) is intended for use by a physician or other qualified medical professionals for the calculation of heart rate and heart rate variability, the detection of atrial fibrillation and determination of respiration rate using ambulatory ECG and triaxial accelerometer data. The physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module supports receiving and analyzing single-lead ECG signals recorded in a compatible format from FDA-cleared ECG biosensor devices using "wet" electrode technology and triaxial accelerometers when assessment of rhythm and respiration rate is desired. The physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module is for use in adult patients in subacute clinical and non-clinical settings for | The physIQ Heart Rhythm and<br>Respiration Module (Version 3.0) is intended for use by a physician or other qualified medical professionals for the calculation of heart rate and heart rate variability, the detection of atrial fibrillation and determination of respiration rate using ambulatory ECG and triaxial accelerometer data. The physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module is intended to be integrated by the customer organization into an end-to-end system (biosensor data collection to clinician display).<br><br>The physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration may only be used with FDA-cleared, chest-worn biosensors using "wet electrode" technology that capture single-lead digital ECG data at 125Hz or |
| Device Functionality | physIQ Heart Rhythm and<br>Respiration Module<br>(Version 2.0) | physIQ Heart Rhythm and<br>Respiration Module<br>(Version 3.0) |
| | remote patient monitoring. The<br>physIQ Heart Rhythm and<br>Respiration Module is not for use<br>in patients requiring life-<br>supporting or life-sustaining<br>systems or as ECG or respiration<br>alarm devices. | higher and integrated triaxial<br>accelerometer data at 15Hz or<br>higher and that are recorded in a<br>compatible format for analysis.<br><br>The physIQ Heart Rhythm and<br>Respiration Module is for use in<br>adult patients in subacute clinical<br>and non-clinical settings for<br>remote patient monitoring. The<br>physIQ Heart Rhythm and<br>Respiration Module is not for use<br>in patients requiring life-<br>supporting or life-sustaining<br>systems or as ECG or respiration<br>alarm devices. |
| Level of Concern | Moderate | Moderate |
| Components | Software only | Software only |
| Interface | Callable application programming<br>interface (API) | Callable application programming<br>interface (API) |
| Biosensor requirements | --- | FDA-cleared, chest-worn, "wet<br>electrode" technology<br>Single-lead digital ECG data at<br>125Hz or higher<br>Triaxial accelerometer data at<br>15Hz or higher |
| Display | Compatible medical device data<br>system (MDDS) display | Compatible medical device data<br>system (MDDS) display |
| QRS detection | YES | YES |
| Heart rate non-paced adult | YES | YES |
| Heart rate variability | YES (deterministic based on R-to-<br>R interval derived from QRS<br>detection) | YES (deterministic based on R-to-<br>R interval derived from QRS<br>detection) |
| Atrial fibrillation detection | YES | YES |
| Respiration rate | YES | YES |
| ECG morphological analysis | NO (other than QRS location and<br>beat-to-beat analyses, no ECG<br>morphological analyses are<br>performed) | NO (other than QRS location and<br>beat-to-beat analyses, no ECG<br>morphological analyses are<br>performed) |
| Arrhythmia classifications<br>(other than atrial<br>fibrillation) | NO | NO |
| Patient populations | Adult | Adult |
| Device Functionality | physIQ Heart Rhythm and<br>Respiration Module<br>(Version 2.0) | physIQ Heart Rhythm and<br>Respiration Module<br>(Version 3.0) |
| Clinical setting | Subacute (non-life-supporting or<br>life-threatening systems required) | Subacute (non-life-supporting or<br>life-threatening systems required) |
| Alarm / Trigger | NO | NO |
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## Conclusion:
The physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module (3.0) has the same intended use and patient population and similar technological characteristics as those of the predicate device, the physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module (2.0). Differences in technological characteristics have been analyzed and addressed through performance validation testing which demonstrated that the physlQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module (3.0) meets it intended use and that any differences between the physlQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module (3.0) and the predicate devices do not raise any new issues.
#### Summary:
Based on the information provided and the testing conducted, the physIQ Heart Rhythm and Respiration Module (3.0) is substantially equivalent to the predicate device.
Date: 9 June 2020
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