Virtual reality in medicine and health will deepen our access to Spirit
Virtual reality in medicine and health will augment and expand our sense of reality - yet it's only a harbinger of deeper access to consciousness.
Weight Loss Products FTC Weighs In
You could burn 50 calories just by reading this blog post. Or not. But if you sell a weight loss product with false, deceptive, and misleading claims, you'll burn a lot more calories when the [...]
FDA regulates mobile medical apps, medical device data systems, and medical device software as “connected health”
What do we call our emerging futurist healthcare-- digital health, e-health, m-health, mobile medicine, tele-health, or old-fashioned "medicine?" FDA is "hip" with its terms, "connected health."
Energy drinks raise a monster of FDA and state legal concerns
Energy drinks, like dietary supplements promising energy boosts, weight loss, and other benefits, raise significant FDA legal challenges; how can manufacturers avoid the barrage of FDA and state [...]
Does Wearable Tech Give Away Your Quantifiable Self? FDA Medical Device, HIPAA Privacy and Security, and Legal Issues Over Who Owns Your Data
Wearable health technology is here, creating new legal and regulatory questions about who owns the data, whether HIPAA applies and protects the privacy of your quantifiable self.
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Are you handling licensing, corporate practice of medicine, fee-splitting, standard of care, informed consent, HIPAA, liability, advertising, contract, FDA issues in your telemedicine venture?
When you launch any virtual, electronic, online, mobile, or other non-physical telemedicine or telehealth venture, you have to navigate several interlocking, overlapping legal issues, from [...]
Daily Journal publishes “Future of Medicine is Just a Tap Away” as lead front-page article
The Daily Journal, California's largest legal news provider, published Future of Medicine is Just a Tap Away, by healthcare & FDA attorney Michael H. Cohen.
Marketing “wearable caffeine” can get you in trouble with FTC, the regulatory watchdog over advertising
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed to settle charges with two marketing companies promoting "shapewear garments" with "slimming claims for caffeine-infused products." FTC vigorously [...]
Wearable Health Technology: Health Care Dream or Privacy Nightmare? (published by LegalZoom)
LegalZoom published Wearable Health Technology: Health Care Dream or Privacy Nightmare, on the heels of Apple's announcement of the Apple Watch. The article makes the point that the Apple Watch [...]
FON Therapeutics (Integrative Medicine Consulting) Features Fee-Splitting 101
ON Therapeutics, a consulting firm focused on integrative medicine branding, marketing and strategy, featured Fee-Splitting 101 and related articles on legal and regulatory issues. FON is [...]
