Medical reference app and iBook maker Orca Health announced a partnership with Harvard Medical School this week. Starting with Orca's existing HeartDecide app, Harvard Medical will begin supplying the ...

Australian researchers Jennifer Lindley and Dr Juanita Fernando, faculty members at Melbourne's Monash University Medicine Nursing and Health Science department, recently penned an editorial for the ...

The Food and Drug Administration has issued guidelines to help clarify which medical apps will be subject to FDA oversight. In general, apps that will be monitored by the FDA meet the definition of ...

Imagine if banks did not have applications to support mortgage processing! Everything has to be done via a manual process, moving the loan through different verifications and approvals through human ...

The use of wearable technology and medical apps surged in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic, but research released by Mozilla indicates that current laws offer little protection for consumers ...

Here's a look at how to make sure you're jumping through all the right regulatory hoops to bring your mobile medical app to market. iPhones are the new medical device. It’s true. Every time I login to ...

How should the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulate mobile medical apps? More than 20 experts shared their opinions with the FDA on September 12, the first day of a two-day public forum in ...

New laws mean any App Stores that include health or medical apps must be more rigorous gatekeepers — and perhaps should not distribute its own apps. Apple has already rejected health apps, at times ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration intends to regulate only mobile apps that are medical devices and could pose a risk to a patient’s safety if they do not function as intended. Some of the risks ...

Earlier today, Apple announced plans for its next health study that aims to connect information collected by wearables with all major types of wellness markers. The idea is to build atop the massive ...