What role should the FDA have in regulating ophthalmic digital health smartphone applications?

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The FDA has chosen a path of determining what the smartphone application is intended to do. Broadly speaking, consumers can use medical apps to monitor their health status and communicate with their health care team, whereas medical professionals can deploy medical apps to monitor, but also to improve and extend care to larger populations. The FDA has appropriately decided to regulate apps that conform to the regulatory definitions of a medical device and meet one of these other criteria: Serve (Read more...)

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