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Fenwick & West Life Sciences Group

Top Trends in H1 2016 Digital Health Investments

A few months ago, following our fifth annual Digital Health Summit, the attendees made some predictions about product development and investment in the rapidly growing sector. Now that we are more than halfway through the...more

Polsinelli

Agencies Encourage New Privacy Regulations to Close the mHealth Black Hole and Keep Pace with Evolving Technologies

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On July 19, 2016, the ONC submitted a report to Congress which suggests that health privacy regulations soon may be revised to catch up with the universe of mHealth technologies that now use and share personal health data....more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Get Your Questions Ready

A lot has changed since the HIPAA Privacy Rule was finalized in 2002 and the HIPAA Security Rule was finalized a year later in 2003. The iPhone had not been released (that happened in 2007), Apple had just released the...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

[Webinar] Digital Health Update: Focus on Health Tech Startups - June 23, 1:00 CDT

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Health care startups are expected to attract billions in venture capital in the next few years. Despite the pace and excitement this surge of investment creates, these next-wave digital disruptors need to keep three legal...more

Fenwick & West Life Sciences Group

Who Will Pay For Digital Health Apps?

The question of whether or not smartphone apps can play an important role in the delivery of healthcare services has been more or less answered with a resounding yes. From weight loss to diabetes monitoring to diagnosing ear...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Hot Companies in Digital Health

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With venture capital funding of digital health up 45 percent in 2012, according to Rock Health, we’re hearing a lot about mobile health apps and healthcare IT. You may be asking yourself what is digital health? Michael...more

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FCC Will Work to Implement mHealth Task Force Report

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In a move he says will improve the quality of health care and cut health system costs, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced the Commission will work toward implementing recommendations proposed by the mHealth Task Force,...more

Fenwick & West Life Sciences Group

Stickiness Eludes Many Health and Fitness Apps

The New York Times recently ran a story titled, “It’s hard to stay friends with an exercise monitor” that underscored a problem facing many health and fitness apps – the risk that users quickly lose interest. ...more

Fenwick & West Life Sciences Group

Venture Investment in Digital Health Effectively Doubles in H1 2012

Venture investment in healthcare convergence technologies soared in the first half of 2012. According to a recent report from Burrill & Co, digital health, into which they group healthcare IT, mobile health and wireless...more

Fenwick & West Life Sciences Group

Aging in Place Drives mHealth Technologies

A lot of the momentum around the mobile health (or mHealth) market is tied to the growing interest in products that enable the elderly to age in place. A key to allowing people to stay in their homes as they age is the...more

Fenwick & West Life Sciences Group

FDA to Finalize Mobile Medical App Rules Following Bill Passage

Yesterday, the Senate approved the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA) which provides reauthorization for major components of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) set to expire at the end of...more

Fenwick & West Life Sciences Group

Pricing mobile health apps: Will consumers pay?

There are a lot of opportunities to be had creating mobile health apps for consumers. But there are still plenty of questions to be answered about how to build sustainable businesses. Who will pay for mhealth products? How...more

Fenwick & West Life Sciences Group

The Regulatory Future of mHealth: FCC, FDA and the United States Congress

As a general matter FDA regulates all medical devices and FCC regulates devices that utilize electromagnetic spectrum - i.e. broadcast devices. So with regard to mobile health devices - sensors, applications, systems - FDA...more

Fenwick & West Life Sciences Group

Human-Centered Design Key to Adoption for Digital Health Products

The recent Fenwick Digital Health Investor Summit included a presentation on how to design successful digital health products. Aimee Jungman, VP of Health and Wellness Innovation at frog design, discussed the four essential...more

Fenwick & West Life Sciences Group

Digital Health Investor Summit Highlights Market Potential

Last Friday we hosted our inaugural Digital Health Investor Summit in partnership with RockHealth at our Mountain View conference center. During the program, several key themes emerged that point to the inevitability of a...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

mHealth Alert: Text4baby: Texting Health Messages to Pregnant Women and New Moms

Furthering the use of commercial wireless networks to deliver health information, the Obama Administration recently announced its new Text4baby campaign, which sends free regular text messages with health information to...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

mHealth Alert: FCC Extends Boston Scientific's Authority for Implanted Cardiac Devices

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently granted a rule waiver requested by Boston Scientific Corporation (Boston Scientific), allowing it to continue to manufacture and market its Contak Renewal TR product line...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

mHealth Alert: FCC Proposes Rules ofr MBAN

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed to allocate radiofrequency spectrum and establish service and technical rules for the operation of Medical Body Area Network (MBAN) systems. The FCC envisions that...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

mHealth Alert: mHealth Raise New FCC and FDA Issues

Wireless technology has long been a part of medical devices. The recent introduction of more sophisticated wireless phones and the deployment of wireless broadband networks has sparked the development of new “mHealth” (mobile...more

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