Time to reform HIPAA and FDA regs for digital health era?

Digital health executives and professors testified about the ways they think federal regulation needs to change to create a robust digital health industry while still protecting the safety and wellbeing of patients.The conversation spanned various regulatory bodies and federal programs including HIPAA, the FDA, FTC and Medicare.“The regulatory framework for most of these apps is complicated and in some cases troubling,” Nicolas Terry, a law professor at Indiana University said in his prepared testimony. “The oversimplified binary of regulation versus innovation is a poor frame. Rather, we have a current technological space that is subject to both over-regulation and under-regulation.”

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from Digital Health | Scoop.it http://www.scoop.it/t/health-care-social-media/p/4066558742/2016/07/19/time-to-reform-hipaa-and-fda-regs-for-digital-health-era
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