FDA medical apps guidance

Report: Clinical apps look promising for asthma, diabetes, but questions persist

By Neil Versel 03:05 am November 12, 2013

Propeller Health's respiratory management platform Mobile apps for clinical management have tremendous potential to help providers and patients to manage chronic ailments together and to expand access to care. However, lack of interoperability with electronic health records, a dearth of outcomes research as well as concerns about reimbursement, regulation and individual privacy are standing in...

Mostashari: FDA should issue mobile health guidance sooner, not later, for clarity's sake

By Neil Versel 04:00 am September 19, 2013

Departing national health IT coordinator Dr. Farzad Mostashari would prefer that the Food and Drug Administration unilaterally issue a long-anticipated final guidance on mobile medical apps rather than waiting for inter-agency consensus with the Federal Communications Commission and Mostashari's own Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. "I testified before Congress...