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PilotFish Announces MedDevice Connection App

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Applied PilotFish Healthcare Integration, Inc. (APHII) recently announced a new application called HealthConnect. APHII is the healthcare division of PilotFish Technology, a provider of middleware solutions for the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

FDA Proposes Additional Flexibility for Mobile Health Products

Draft Guidances Address General Wellness Products and Device Accessories - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or “the Agency”) has announced two more key parameters of its regulatory approach to mobile health...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

FDA Proposes to Apply Risk-Based Framework to Accessory Devices

In another effort to bring some clarity to its regulation of devices, the FDA has released draft guidance on how its risk-based framework applies to accessory devices ( the “Draft Guidance”). This development is welcome...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

mHealth Technology – Development in an Uncertain Regulatory Climate

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The development and use of mobile technologies and devices is expanding at an incredibly fast pace and is changing, and in fact revolutionizing, the way patients and healthcare providers interact. Mobile medical technologies...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

FDA Draft Guidance Would Ease Regulatory Burdens for Certain mHealth Applications

On August 1, 2014, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released draft guidance that would exempt from premarket 510(k) review many low-risk medical devices--including certain mobile applications that can convert a cell...more

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AMA Adopts Telemedicine Policy for Coverage and Payment of Telemedicine Services

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During its Annual Meeting on June 11, 2014, the American Medical Association (AMA) voted to approve a list of guiding principles for coverage of and payment for telemedicine services, designed to “foster innovation in the use...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

House Subcommittee Hears Testimony on Developing Mobile Medical Applications

Nearly one in three cell phone owners have used their phone to look for health information. Approximately 19% of smartphone owners have downloaded a mobile medical application (Medical App). These and many more statistics...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

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

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: 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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