mobile health regulation

The social cost of FDA’s bias against new technology
By MHN Staff | 11:09 am | October 08, 2015
By Bradley Merrill Thompson If I invented an unprecedented mobile technology for treating tennis elbow, the law would require me to do substantial and expensive clinical trials before bringing it to market.
FTC increasingly active in OCR, FDA's traditional purviews
By Jonah Comstock | 01:44 pm | April 13, 2015
A brain training game fined by the FTC earlier this year.
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.