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Leveraging mHealth Data For Product Development: FDA-Supported Action Plan Released

Mobile health devices including wearable consumer products have the potential to collect a lot of medical information that can be useful for product development and tracking. A new action plan from US FDA, industry and other key players outlines ways to harness and use that data to bring better products to market more quickly.

A working group of US FDA and industry stakeholders say mobile health technology holds huge potential for advancing medical research, particularly as tools to collect and share data. A new action plan published by the group proposes several steps to help reap that potential.

The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy unveiled the report Sept. 15, which lays out recommendations falling under five...

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