FDA mobile medical apps

FDA medical app regulation and the art of intended use
By MHN Staff | 08:03 am | April 13, 2015
By Bradley Merrill Thompson With the growth of health apps, entrepreneurs often need to determine if FDA regulates their particular mobile app.
Verizon shutters Virtual Visits and its FDA-cleared telehealth hub app
By Brian Dolan | 07:07 am | January 12, 2015
Last year Verizon stopped offering both its patient-to-provider Virtual Visits product and its FDA-cleared telehealth hub software.
FDA proposes to deregulate some digital health software
By Brian Dolan | 07:15 am | June 24, 2014
On Friday the FDA issued a draft guidance document that revealed the agency intends to further deregulate medical device data systems (MDDS) and some medical image transfer systems.
FDA makes clear it won't regulate apps like Apple's HealthKit
By Brian Dolan | 10:49 am | June 16, 2014
As MobiHealthNews noted last week in the introduction to our In-Depth report on Apple's Health app feature set, the FDA made a rare move on Wednesday by adding a new description for a type of mobile medical app that it would not regulate as a medical device.