With more than 17,000 medical applications, according to analysts in the field, circulating in different download markets, United States does not want less cautious or overly gullible users to be risk due to the malfunction of some of them. For this reason, the American Drug Agency (FDA) has published a regulation to avoid that any of these tools overreach their functions and may threaten against the user's he alth, thus seeking to review all applications in this area before they are published for publication download.
A movement that updates this agency to new technologies but without a controlling spirit. Or that is what emerges from his statement, where he states that he does not want to regulate the sale of devices or applications, but rather offer the go-ahead for tools that can be used as medical devices And there is already a wide variety of applications and add-on devices that connect to the terminal and allow you to read the heart rate, blood glucose level, etc
According to the drug agency itself, the majority of applications available up to now are harmless for the user. And many of them focus on keeping a record of physical activity, diet, weight, information about diseases, etc. However, some of them go too far and try to become medical devices that are not always controlled or ensure correct operation, such as electrocardiograms and other devices that are regulated by said agency.
For Jeffrey Shuren, Director of the FDA Office of Technology, apps are a good tool that help “the consumer to take better control of their he alth or to access useful information at any time”, all this “outside of an environment traditional he althcare” With this regulation it is sought that developers have the guides that allow them to create practical and useful applications for users, always supervised by the FDA before its publication in theUS app markets
It will be necessary to see if these policies extend to the rest of the world to avoid applications unreliable and secure for the user's he alth. And it is that, although the majority are innocuous, such as those that through a supposed scan (photograph) of a mole are able to know if it is a tumor, or others that offer all kinds of diagnosis without reliable medical criteria, it would be It is quite a positive point to have a seal or guarantee of security or reliability in which they are reliable.At the moment, only the criterion of the Spanish user will allow us to distinguish between the crude joke applications and the toolsCreated to keep track of medication or measurements such as blood pressure, blood sugar and other tools with serious medical applications.
