Podcast: Game Changer For Digital Health? A Talk With FDA's Bakul Patel
Executive Summary
In an exclusive podcast interview with Medtech Insight, US FDA's Bakul Patel talks about the agency's new Digital Health Software Precertification Program and the pilot project launched to help figure out how to make it work.
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