Prognosis
Apple Watch Should Pave Way for More Medical Gadgets, FDA Says
- Regulator wants to make selling consumer health devices easier
- Doctors must decide on how to respond to heart data from Watch
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The nation’s top medical-device regulator wants to make it easier for other companies to follow Apple Inc.’s lead in integrating products like the Apple Watch’s heart monitor into new consumer gadgets.
“We want to make the market for consumer medical products accessible to nontraditional manufacturers, or traditional technology manufacturers that haven’t before entered the medical space,” U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in an interview at Bloomberg headquarters in New York on Thursday. “The door is open to any manufacturer.”