Will the FDA be the new digital pioneer?

Fitness trackers or apps may already be a crucial part of your everyday healthy-living-routine. But getting those to market can be a very difficult process in the first place. This could change very soon, according to the FDA’s latest plans.

The use of digital apps or devices in the medical world is growing fast – and of course, it does not stop at fitness bracelets. Next to special applications to track down and analyse health data, there are already way more capable systems that can figure out cancer treatment plans or devices that allow physicians to predict brain conditions.

But as different as those inventions may seam, they have one thing in common: It takes a lot of testings and even more time to bring those to the market – where people finally can benefit from them.