iPad: 'Wild West' of Medical Apps Seeks Sheriff: Just as consumers have brought their iPhones and iPads into the enterprise, consumer devices are creeping into the medical world. Doctors are getting exciting new ways to do their work remotely; consumers are getting new tools that help them take charge of their own health. It's an exciting time, but all of this change has made things tricky for the FDA, an agency that is more at home regulating blood pressure cuffs and stethoscopes than mobile software. Today, there are thousands of mobile medical apps, most written for the iPad or the iPhone. According to the FDA, only a handful of them are cleared for medical use.
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