"With the FDA recently saying too many [medical] devices are getting approved too easily and some other things they are articulating, it's frustrating," Montage Systems CEO Eric Collins said during a panel session at the CTIA Wireless IT & E event last week.

Montage is still awaiting FDA approval of its Wireless Healthphone, which is meant to send patient data wirelessly to doctors and other caregivers. Healthphone includes blood glucose monitoring functionality but also has a planned ability to alert diabetis to foreign objects entering their shoes since some diabetics lose sensation in their feet. An orthotic device inserted into the patient's shoe would notify wearer if a stone of something else entered the shoe that could cause a sore.

According to Collins, the emerging wireless health industry "has a huge opportunity to improve the health care system and reduce costs, but Washington is clearly not paying attention to technology at this level."

For more on the panel Collins was speaking on last week, read this article from ComputerWorld