With more than 60,000 health-related smartphone and tablet apps already available in the iTunes App Store and Google Play—the Android app marketplace—it’s clear that consumers are going to be getting more and more of their health information, and possibly even diagnosis and treatment, from their mobile gadgets. In Washington, DC, last week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee held three days of hearings aimed at clarifying whether and how the Food and Drug Administration will regulate this burgeoning universe of mobile medical apps and devices.
While FDA officials said a lot at the hearings about what they don’t plan to regulate—for one thing, they aren’t going to treat smartphones and tablets as medical devices just because they can run medical apps—they didn’t say as much about what they will regulate, and the agency’s draft guidelines on mobile medical technology may not be finalized until this fall.
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