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Profile: FDA’s Bakul Patel On The Inevitable Future Of Digital Health

Medtech Insight profiles the man leading the US FDA’s digital health efforts to learn about his journey and vision for the future.

Behtany Hills and Bakul Patel
LIFE SCIENCE ATTORNEY BETHANY HILLS AND THE FDA'S BAKUL PATEL TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL HEALTH AT THE 2019 WORLD MEDICAL INNOVATION FORUM IN BOSTON • Source: Ferdous Al-Faruque

Over the past decade, digital health has become a burgeoning sector and ubiquitous term within the medical device industry. As a mountain of new digital heath products are headed to market, everyone is looking to Bakul Patel, associate director for digital health at the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), to help develop a new least-burdensome pathway that also ensures patients are kept safe.

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