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Carol Ko, Staff Writer | October 24, 2013
Concerns around cybersecurity are especially relevant now that mobile medical apps are experiencing a new boom.
The FDA released its final guidance for mobile medical apps last month. "We have adopted a posture of not regulating the majority of mobile medical apps — only those that are really within what would be considered to be an area of concern in terms of patient safety," said Schwartz.
The guidance affects devices that turn the smartphone into a medical device or are intended to be used as an accessory alongside a medical device.
Schwartz said that those apps would fall under the same cybersecurity framework of expectation as any other medical device.
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