medical app regulation

FTC fines vision improvement app-maker $150K for deceptive claims
By Brian Dolan | 12:48 pm | September 21, 2015
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has charged the marketers of a vision improvement app, called UltimEyes, with deceptively claiming they their program was scientifically proven to improve the user's eye sight.
UK's Royal College of Physicians lays out guidelines for medical apps
By Jonah Comstock | 10:37 am | May 05, 2015
The Mersey Burns app is mentioned by name in the RCP guidelines.
FDA clarifies the line between wellness and regulated medical devices
By Brian Dolan | 06:39 am | January 16, 2015
As promised in its FDASIA report, the FDA has published a draft guidance document that aims to help those creating wellness devices and apps to better understand when their product (or their marketing claims) crosses over into regulated medical device territory.