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Best Practices for Developing a Successful Mobile Medical App

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  Mobile Medical App Mobile medical app serve both patients and physicians in dealing with various health conditions. Be it for monitoring chronic diseases or for informing about care decisions, the marketplace for medical apps is encountering a steep rise in demand. Also, the developers are introducing innovative technologies in the apps to help increase healthcare efficiency. According to the reports of the  U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)  about 1.7 billion smartphone and tablet users are using medical apps in 2018. Surveys also suggest that majority of the users are of the opinion that medical apps improve the quality of life, and this implies that the usage will increase in future. However, with increasing usage, the security concerns are also rising as it is crucial to maintain the privacy and safety of health information. Let’s take a look at the best practices that should be kept in mind while developing mobile medical apps. Focus on a Specific Pro...

How to Survive an FDA Audit for Medical Device Firms?

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     FDA Audit for Medical Device Firms FDA audit could be nerve-racking for medical device manufacturers if they are not well prepared. Over the last few years, medical device firms have encountered a significantly heightened number of inspections that resulted in increase in the number of citations. Although difficult, FDA audit is an important aspect of  medical device industry . However, especially for startups, the first audit could be quite difficult to handle as the checklist of FDA could scare away the potential investors or customers, hindering the organization’s goal and efforts. Moreover, FDA sometimes announces their audit beforehand but the regulators may also turn up any time for inspection, without any notice. This implies, being a medical device manufacturer, you always need to be prepared for going through an FDA audit. Here are some of the basic steps that you must follow to stay prepared and confidently survive an FDA auditfor medical dev...