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Health Apps: Convenience Vs. Security Risks

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The pace of innovation in healthcare today has produced an amazing increase in the number of available mobile apps for health-related information. More than 300,000 healthcare apps are available online. These apps are...more

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Building a Health App? What You Need to Know

Last week, Apple announced the new Apple Watch Series 3 which will feature an enhanced heart rate app. The app will notify you when it detects an elevated heart rate even when you are not working out. The sensor will also be...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Doctor, Doctor, Give Me the News, I’ve Got a Bad Case of Medical App Blues: Mobile Medical Application Developers Settle with New...

The New York Office of the Attorney General recently announced settlements with developers of three mobile health applications due to misleading claims and deficient privacy practices. As a result of these settlements, the...more

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New York Regulators Lead the Charge to Fill Health Data Protection Gaps Left by Federal Law

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New York AG Settles Data Protection Enforcement Against Mobile Health Apps - After a year-long investigation into mobile health apps claiming to be able to measure vital signs or health indicators through smartphone...more

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New York Attorney General Settles Claims against Three Health Apps

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Health app developers must be vigilant not only of federal laws, but of state laws as well. On March 23, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced a settlement with developers of three health-related...more

Baker Donelson

New York AG Puts Mobile Health App Developers on Notice

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New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced on Friday that the AG's office reached settlements with three mobile application developers who marketed their apps without possessing sufficient information to back up...more

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MHRA Updates Guidance on Healthcare Apps as Medical Devices

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Healthcare apps are becoming a greater part of everyday life. The increasing prominence and functionality of these apps has lead to the question of when healthcare apps should be regulated as medical devices. In the United...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

AGG Food & Drug Newsletter - May 2016

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP's (AGG) Food and Drug Newsletter is a monthly update of legal and regulatory issues that affect the FDA-regulated community, including regular updates on legislative initiatives from AGG’s...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Wave of the Future: Government Releases New Tool to Aid Medical App Developers Comply with HIPAA

This month, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)...more

Morgan Lewis

FTC Creates Web-Based Tool for Mobile Health App Developers

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The new interactive tool highlights the relevant federal regulatory schemes, but the high-level analysis may limit its value to mobile health app developers....more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Federal Agencies Provide User-Friendly Guidance on Compliance with Data Privacy Laws

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How federal privacy laws apply to mobile health applications has been an area of significant ambiguity. Recently, the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil...more

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Federal Trade Commission Releases New Mobile Health Apps Interactive Tool

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in conjunction with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the HHS Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, and the Food and Drug Administration, have developed a new...more

King & Spalding

FTC Releases Tool And Best Practices For Mobile Health App Developers

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On April 5, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced that it had created a web-based tool designed to assist developers of health-related mobile apps identify and understand what federal laws and regulations might apply...more

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A New Tool for Health App Developers to Navigate a Crowded Regulatory Field

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As regulators seek to define their authority and the scope of their enforcement power, more health apps will continue to flood the marketplace and transform how patients are treated. As mobile health applications...more

McGuireWoods LLP

FTC Releases Mobile Health Apps Interactive Tool

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Consider this: A 42-year-old man arrives at the emergency room showing signs of a heart attack. The ER doctors, using the patient’s activity tracker—in this case, a Fitbit® —are able to pinpoint when the patient’s normal...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

FTC, ONC, OCR and FDA release online tool for mobile health app developers

While attending the International Association of Privacy Professionals annual global event, and listening to Chairwoman Edith Ramirez discuss the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) concerns about consumer privacy, the FTC, the...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Mobile Health Apps Continue to Make Headlines

Recently published studies are illustrating the types of issues that mobile health application, or “app,” developers will continue to face as the industry matures alongside an evolving regulatory and enforcement landscape....more

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