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DLA Piper

FemTech and the use of AI

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Due to an exponential growth in the investment in female health and wellbeing, Forbes and Dealroom reported that 2023 saw 1.14 billion USD raised collectively across 120 deals in ‘FemTech’. ...more

MoFo Life Sciences

Digitalization Of German Healthcare System To Receive Legislative Boost In 2024

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It is no secret that the healthcare system in Germany is not sufficiently digitized. The German Federal Ministry of Health has therefore developed a strategy to digitize and simplify healthcare for the German population. At...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Digital Health Apps Must Allow Users to Delete Accounts, Per New Apple App Store Rules

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The regulatory scrutiny on telemedicine and digital health companies continues to tighten, whether it is privacy warning shots, new direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising limits, a wave of reimbursement audits, or multistate...more

Hogan Lovells

Coronavirus: The Hill and the Headlines, March 2021 # 13

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In Washington: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is planning to extend the tax-filing deadline to mid-May, according to two top House Democrats. A news release Wednesday from House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Telemedicine Comes of Age: OIG is Prosecuting Telehealth Fraud

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You can now tell that telemedicine is a mature industry, because it has achieved enough critical mass that the fraud has started and the OIG is beginning to prosecute. There is a lag time between when the cash flow and profit...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Changing the Conversation About Sharing and Using Health Information

Some app developers know more about our health than our doctors do. Take, for instance, FitBit, which is attached to our wrist and measuring in real time our temperature, our heart rate, our steps and whether we have had...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #204 – Has Your Doctor (or other Professional) Downloaded Apps With Microphone Access?

I have the great pleasure to present annually to doctors who are in their fellowship (which means they are post-med school and continuing their training in a particular specialty) about lawyerly things before they go out into...more

Hogan Lovells

Hello, doctor, can you hear me? - Telemedicine in South Africa

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The world of medicine, like numerous other industries, is also being disrupted by technology and apps like Hello Doctor and Medici are revolutionising the doctor-patient relationship....more

Foley & Lardner LLP

OIG Greenlights Digital Health Program Offering Free Smartphones to Patients

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Last week, the federal HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) gave the greenlight to allow a virtual care company and pharmaceutical manufacturer to loan patients free smartphones, so the patients (which include Medicare...more

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Telehealth promises faster, more convenient access to health care services

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From mobile apps for monitoring medications to virtual appointments with specialists, telehealth services are creating new levels of convenience for providers and patients. But as companies digitize more pieces of the health...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Digital Health: FDA Gives Nod to Multiple First-in-Class Devices

Digital health—the convergence of healthcare, devices, genomics (in some instances), and digital technology—is a fast-growing sector teeming with the promise to improve the health of millions of people. A key feature of...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Class Action Initiated Against Telehealth Provider for Disclosure of Sensitive Information

A class action was filed in Fort Lauderdale, Florida this week against a national telehealth provider, MDLive Inc. (MDLive) for its mobile app’s alleged secret capture of screenshots containing sensitive patient information...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Developing and Implementing an Effective Telemedicine Informed Consent Form

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The search by consumers, payers and providers for more efficient, effective and convenient care delivery models has led to an explosion of technological innovation in the health care sector. This explosion has supported the...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Manatt Digital Media - October 2015

In this newsletter, we highlight some of the ways digital technologies are transforming healthcare and the opportunities and challenges they present to individuals and businesses. We also introduce you to our team at Manatt...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Is My Telehealth App Subject to HIPAA?

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Many telehealth and mHealth app developers are concerned about whether or not their app is a medical device under FDA regulations (and rightfully so), they often pay less attention to the Health Insurance Portability and...more

Dickinson Wright

Healthcare Legal News Volume 5 Number 2

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According to a recent study by Accenture, by 2017 approximately 18 percent of the American public will purchase insurance through exchanges versus relying on traditional employer healthcare coverage or foregoing insurance...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Health Update - September 2014

Engaging Patients While Addressing Their Privacy Concerns: The Experience of Project HealthDesign - Patients are using the Internet, personal health records (PHRs) and mobile applications or “apps” to collect and...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

NIST Vetting Guidance Valuable for Health Care Organizations Seeking to Use Third-Party Apps

The mobile app and wearables market in health care is booming, most recently evidenced by Apple’s entry into the market with its widely-anticipated “HealthKit,” a purportedly secure platform that allows mHealth apps to share...more

Troutman Pepper

Telemedicine and Mobile Health Innovations Amid Increasing Regulatory Oversight

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The growing mobile health market is rapidly transforming health care delivery. More than 80 percent of physicians use mobile technology to provide patient care, and more than 25 percent of commercially insured patients use...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Mobile Medical App Regulations on the Move – Proposed Bills To Further Alter the Regulatory Landscape of Mobile Medical...

Apple’s apps store lists close to a 100,000 health apps. Together with wearable technology, direct-to-consumer testing services, and greater consumer participation in the decision to purchase health insurance, the healthcare...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

The Life Sciences Report - Fall 2013

In this issue: - How to Expedite Examination of a Patent Application - The FDA Releases Final Guidance for Mobile Medical Applications - Creating Value in the Medtech Industry Using a Gender Lens -...more

Morgan Lewis

FDA Issues Long-Awaited Final Guidance on Mobile Medical Applications

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Agency expands enforcement discretion, focusing its oversight on a discrete subset of mobile apps that present the greatest risk to patients. On September 23, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency)...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The FDA Releases Long-Awaited Final Guidance on Mobile Medical Applications

On September 23, 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (the “FDA” or the “Agency”) issued long-awaited final guidance for developers of mobile medical or health applications (or “mobile medical apps”) used on...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

FDA Issues Final Mobile Medical App Guidance

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued long-awaited final guidance for developers of mobile medical apps. The final guidance comes more than two years after the FDA published its draft guidance in July 2011. ...more

Baker Donelson

FDA Flexes Mobile App Enforcement Muscles (Gently)

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The FDA was granted authority to regulate mobile health care applications (apps) as part of the Food and Drug Administration and Innovation Act. (For a detailed discussion of the FDA’s authority, see “FDA Safety and...more

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