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		<title>How to avoid FDA mHealth regulation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strategies for mHealth Companies Wishing to Avoid FDA Regulation
By Bradley Merrill Thompson
(I would like to thank Leah Kendall of EpsteinBeckerGreen and Dane Stout of the Anson Group for their comments on a draft.  The views expressed, right or wrong, are only the author’s and should not be attributed to anyone else.)
Most people know the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should mHealth companies want FDA regulation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bradley Merrill Thompson, MBA, JD
(I would like to thank Dr. Deepak Ayyagari of Sharp Laboratories of America and Dane Stout of the Anson Group for their comments on a draft.  The views expressed, right or wrong, are only the author’s and should not be attributed to the commenter’s.)
At the risk of insulting my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When will the FDA drop the gavel?</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/5530/when-will-the-fda-drop-the-gavel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in February we reported that the Food &#38; Drug Administration (FDA) had just begun its conversation with the mobile health industry and that the ways in which it would regulate this emerging industry would come out of that conversation.
It&#8217;s now November and those working on wireless health are getting antsy. When will the FDA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making the case for Bluetooth in healthcare</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/5484/making-the-case-for-bluetooth-in-healthcare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bluetooth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Foley, Ph.D., executive director, Bluetooth SIG
With 20 million devices in the marketplace today, Bluetooth technology is already the de facto wireless standard for health and fitness devices. Whether the device is a defibrillator, weight scale, heart rate belt, glucose meter or a Wii Fit Balance Board, manufacturers have been enthusiastic in choosing Bluetooth technology as their device [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could FDA&#8217;s $3.2B budget increase help it regulate mHealth?</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/2142/could-fdas-32b-budget-increase-help-it-regulate-mhealth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 21:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that it is requesting a budget of $3.2 billion, which represents a 19 percent increase over the current FDA fiscal year budget. Given the recent buzz over the FDA&#8217;s intent to take a closer look at health and medical applications for the iPhone, we wonder if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FCC Commish: We need to prioritize health</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/1004/fcc-commish-we-need-to-prioritize-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You need a more reliable wireless connection for a CAT scan than you for watching a cat do backflips on Youtube,&#8221; FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein joked at an event that took place this morning in the Senate. The session, The Wireless Future of Health IT, was jointly organized by the the wireless industry association, CTIA, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Round-up: Tracking hospital hand washers</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/981/round-up-tracking-hospital-hand-washers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[IBM]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The University of Iowa announced that it has successfully piloted a low-cost, green technology for tracking hand hygiene at a hospital. The pilot used Zigbee technology, which is a low-power wireless technology, to track interaction between a small, page-like badge hospital staff carry and a hand hygiene dispenser located outside of patient rooms. Article
The North [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FDA: No inspecting labs testing medical devices</title>
		<link>http://mobihealthnews.com/582/fda-no-inspections-of-labs-testing-medical-devices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though the FDA recently began an open dialog with the wireless medical device community over mHealth regulation, enforcement of federal quality regulations at labs that develop medical devices has been scaled back by the FDA, according to a recent report by the Project on Government Oversight. FDA inspections of &#8220;good laboratory practices&#8221; at facilities [...]]]></description>
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