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“Questions about the FDA’s New Framework for Digital Health” is the topic of a recent article by Professor Nicolas P. Terry at Health Affairs Blog.

The blog post, co-authored by law professors Nathan Cortez of Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law and I. Glenn Cohen of Harvard Law School, outlines “notable shifts” in the approach to digital health technologies by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under newly appointed commissioner Scott Gottlieb.

“The new changes should not be surprising, given critiques published by Gottlieb prior to re-joining the FDA. In 2014, he wrote that smartphones are ‘purposely dumbed down’ due to the ‘risk of unwieldy FDA regulation,’ and in 2015, he argued that what most considered the FDA’s ‘light touch’ on digital health was still too heavy-handed,” according to the post.

Read more at http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2017/08/16/questions-about-the-fdas-new-framework-for-digital-health/

Professor Terry is the Hall Render Professor of Law and executive director of the Hall Center for Law and Health. He is a member of the Health IT Consumer Workgroup. His research interests lie primarily at the intersection of medicine, law, and information technology. His recent scholarship has dealt with health privacy, social media and health, big data, and health care fragmentation. He started the podcast, “The Week in Health Law” with Professor Frank Pasquale of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. The podcast is available for download at iTunes, and PodBean, and can be listened to at Stitcher Radio. He is one of the permanent bloggers at HealthLawProf and at Bill of Health. His recent publications are available on the Social Science Research Network, and he can be followed on Twitter @nicolasterry.