US FDA: Calling All Digital Health Gurus
Executive Summary
FDA wants to draw on outside expertise to help it better understand the digital-health industry and to develop its proposed Digital Health Software Precertification Program. The agency is seeking applicants for its Entrepreneur-in-Residence program in the coming months expressly for this purpose.
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