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Feb 25
2011
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Moving to a More Responsive Context for mHealthPosted by: doreen on Feb 25, 2011 Tagged in: Untagged
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Regulation of medical devices that "consist of a phone carried around by tens of millions of Americans and software that could have been written in a weekend" needs to be carefully approached writes Steve Downs of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He focuses on the evolving regulatory environment for health and medical app developers and how it will accelerate or throttle the use of personal health records (PHRs) and the ability of people to become more fully engaged in their health care..
Drawing from research supported by the Foundation, he lays out 3 key themes to help guide policymaking: separate the apps from the data, expand the definition of health information, and recognize the increasingly social nature of health care.
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Drawing from research supported by the Foundation, he lays out 3 key themes to help guide policymaking: separate the apps from the data, expand the definition of health information, and recognize the increasingly social nature of health care.
Read more….
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