FDA issues new medical and mobile device draft guidance

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The FDA hopes to encourage innovation and interoperability by lowering the regulatory burden on medical device data systems in a new draft guidance published June 20.

The document also proposes edits to the mobile medical applications guidance.

Via the FDA

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