The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) announced its sponsorship of an educational program series called the "Mobile Medical Apps (MMA) Roadshow: Managing App Development under FDA Regulation." CEA is joining a consortium of six ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
U.S. regulators are working hard to keep up with the rapidly evolving digital health care sector, according to William Maisel, chief scientist of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health. Speaking last week during BIOMEDevice ...
Tags: FDA, Grapples, Digital Health
Brightest Flashlight Free in an Android app that performs a simple function: It allows an Android phone user to turn on the LED light on the back of his or her phone. Since this LED light is designed for use with a camera, many Android ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued final guidance on how it will handle regulation of medical apps, which are software programs that run on mobile communication devices and perform the same functions as traditional medical ...
Tags: Mobile Medical Apps
US Food and Drug Administration intends to have tighter rules for apps that allow to diagnose or treat medical conditions, similar to the 2011 proposal urging for quality standards for ultrasound machines, heart stents, and several other ...
Tags: Stringent Rules, Medical Apps
It's not a Star Trek tricorder, but by hooking a variety of gadgets onto a smartphone you can almost get a complete physical - without the paper gown or even a visit to the doctor's office. Blood pressure? Just plug the arm cuff into the ...
Tags: Phone, Apps, Computer Products
U.S. House lawmakers plan to hold a three-day series of hearings to determine how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should regulate mobile health applications. The House Energy and Commerce Committee plans to begin the hearings ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
In Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the humanoid crew members of the Enterprise wore little boxes near the waistlines of their pajama-like uniforms. While their purpose wasn't explained in the film's dialogue, these were supposed to be ...
Tags: medical telemetry devices, cell phones, computers, Prognosis, medical apps
One in three physicians planned to buy the iPad Mini even when its existence was just a rumor,according to a poll of doctors by medical app developer Epocrates. According to 90%of the respondents to the survey,the smaller size of the ...