Open data, apps and the FDA

Briana Campbell | OpenSource.com | August 8, 2011

One June 9th, The Department of Health and Human Services hosted the second Health Data Initiative challenge. The point behind the challenge is to promote and accelerate the use of open data to improve health. As part of the presentation, winning apps, utilizing the public data and conceived and produced by three teams of college students (one of which I use on a daily basis) were showcased. Very cool stuff.

On July 19th, the FDA announced that it was recommending regulation of Mobile Medical Applications. This sent Twitter and several bloggers into a bit of a frenzy. Everyone wants to know what it means. What will the ramifications be to those people who are diving into that open medical data provided by the Department of Health? ...