Wanted: A watchdog for the mobile medical app explosion


  • TECH
  • Friday, 06 Jun 2014

SAN FRANCISCO: A smartphone app that rids you of acne. Another that monitors your heart rate 24/7. One that detects skin cancer by looking at your birthmarks. If they sound too good to be true, they may be. 

Patients today use a number of apps that purport to track and treat a panoply of ailments, a headache for regulators and patient safety advocates. 

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