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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.
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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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