Mobile Apps, mHealth, Medical Devices

AGs Weave Themselves Into Patchwork of Digital-Health Regs

Troutman Pepper on 7/13/2017

There are more than 165,000 mobile health applications available for download in Apple’s App Store or Google Play. This number will likely keep rising, and a body of federal and state regulators, including state attorneys...more

PilotFish Announces MedDevice Connection App

Knobbe Martens on 4/16/2015

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

Increased FTC Enforcement as FDA Deregulates Low-Risk Health IT Devices

Morgan Lewis on 3/26/2015

The FTC steps up enforcement of misleading software and mobile app promotional claims as FDA deregulates low-risk health IT devices. In recent weeks, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has taken several enforcement...more

House Subcommittee Hears Testimony on Developing Mobile Medical Applications

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 7/1/2013

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

Hot Companies in Digital Health

Fenwick & West LLP on 1/11/2013

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

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

Fenwick & West Life Sciences Group on 6/19/2012

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