My wife complains I live in the future, and I suppose that’s true. But on the heels of three days of hearings last week by two subcommittees of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, all focused on ...

This morning the US Food and Drug Administration offered up a set of draft guidelines for how it might regulate certain mobile medical apps. While this set of guidelines was years in the making, it ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued final rules governing the development of mobile medical apps, saying it will focus its oversight on those products that have the potential ...

If you include the words "US Food and Drug Administration" (FDA) and "Social Media" in the same sentence, it is generally followed by an explanation of how the former has failed to issue guidance on ...

A National Cancer Institute program manager warned about mobile applications that promise health care benefits to consumers without being backed by scientific data. Health IT HHS The performed at ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration intends to regulate only mobile apps that are medical devices and could pose a risk to a patient’s safety if they do not function as intended. Some of the risks ...

Regulatory Focus' ongoing series of Regulatory Explainers takes complicated regulatory topics and makes them simple enough for anyone to understand. In our latest Regulatory Explainer, ...

Smartphones, tablets, and mobile apps are changing the physician-patient dynamic. They are empowering patients to take better control of managing their health, and physicians are taking advantage of ...