2. Health IT Bill
• A new Health IT bill that aims to reduce regulatory
burden in the industry is drawing backlash from mHealth
advocates who believe it may risk lives and damage the
industry
• The Preventing Regulatory Overreach to Enhance Care
Technology (PROTECT) Act of 2014 aims to clarify the
extent to which the US Food and Drug Administration
Authority (FDA) can regulate Health IT
• The proposed bill aims to limit the FDA’s focus on
technologies that pose the greatest health risk rather
than giving the agency complete authority over low-risk
Health IT and therefore hindering innovation
3. Health IT Bill
• A Washington DC lawyer Bradley Merrill Thompson
advocating mHealth Regulatory Coalition, terms the
proposed bill a “meat cleaver” that would do a lot of
damage if passed, particularly to clinical decision
support applications
• Thompson thinks the proposed legislation is similar
to the SOFTWARE Act of 2013, proposed by Marsha
Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee
4. Health IT Bill
• In Thompsons opinion, both look to reduce the FDA’s
regulatory powers by deregulating what legislators
feel is less risk Health IT such as EHRs, practice
management and wellness apps
• Both pieces of legislation aim to free mHealth
technology that needs to be regulated, according to
Thompson
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