How mHealth Can Bring Cheaper Health Care To All. #hcux
But can we really trust our phones to dispense medical data? That’s the question facing the FDA, which has spent the past year or so putting pioneering mHealth products through rigorous evaluations.
With this first wave of devices approved and a mobile-specific set of guidelines to be finalized later this year, the FDA expects to streamline its approval process, which should juice the mHealth market. “Regulatory clarity almost always drives investment—provided it’s not a big, clear no,” says Joseph Smith, who helps run the West Wireless Health Institute.
