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- Title
THE FUTURE OF HEALTH CARE: WE ARE OUR OWN WORST ENEMIES.
- Authors
Dunlap, Nelson J.
- Abstract
Mobile medical applications are increasingly taking center-stage in the health care industry and more importantly, in the patient-doctor relationship. Yet, as technological prevalence continues its upward trend, regulatory initiatives will also continue their march to the forefront of the discussion. This can lead to only one ultimate conclusion: an impasse between the potential for technological innovation and governmentally enforced restrictions. The first, of what will most likely prove to be many, federal regulation controlling mobile medical applications was recently enacted by the Food and Drug Administration. overbearing governmental regulations such as these stifle innovation in the health care field and operate to the detriment of the public as a whole by restricting society's ability to advance in the health care industry. Before implementing any governmental regulation, a cost-benefit analysis should always be performed to ensure that it is truly worth it. in the situation where health care is on one side of the equation, we simply can't afford to stifle our own future. This can be, quite literally, a matter of life or death.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MEDICAL care; MOBILE apps; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; PHYSICIAN-patient relations -- Law &; legislation; UNITED States. Food &; Drug Administration; HEALTH care industry; U.S. states; MEDICAL care laws
- Publication
DePaul Journal of Health Care Law, 2014, Vol 16, Issue 2, p165
- ISSN
1551-8426
- Publication type
Article