'Excellence' In Health-Software Design: US FDA Taps Nine Firms To Figure Out What That Means
Executive Summary
The likes of Apple, Samsung and FitBit join traditional medtech players Johnson & Johnson and Roche, along with digital-health startups in a new US FDA pilot program intended to define best-practice software design as a means to "pre-certify" companies and reduce pre-market requirements. FDA's Bakul Patel and the CEO of one pilot participant, Pear Therapeutics, weighs in.
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