Bradley Merrill Thompson, a Member of the Firm in the Health Care and Life Sciences practice, in the Washington, DC, office, wrote an article titled "Managing Business Risk in Mobile Health: Part 1."
Following is an excerpt:
Some technology companies are sitting on the sidelines, or just dipping their toes in the mHealth waters, out of fear of the unknown. Will FDA regulate this space? If we get into healthcare, will we get sued if someone breaks a finger nail using our app? Will the FTC come after us if we don't have a bunch of clinical trials to support every claim we make? Will a patient come after us if personal health information somehow gets into the wrong hands? What about the company's reputation if something goes wrong? And don't get me started if your product triggers Medicare reimbursement. In many ways, the healthcare field seems scary at first, just based on the headlines we all read concerning regulatory and legal landmines.
