On Thursday, FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced a pilot program to look into a "pre-certification" for medical software start-ups.
And even the FDA's harshest critics are excited about it.
"I guess I've grown cynical in my old age, as I've watched administrations come and go," said Bradley Merrill Thompson, an FDA expert and lawyer with the firm Epstein, Becker & Green, in an email to CNBC. "(But) I think the idea of a pilot program is brilliant."
Image: Anjali Sundaram | CNBC Dr. Scott Gottlieb, FDA Commissioner.
