Prescription apps take off during lockdown
Digital therapeutics are going from strength to strength during the pandemic.
FDA tightens up digital health oversight
Software-enabled medical devices pose unique challenges to regulators, and the US agency is getting serious about meeting them.
One step forward, two steps back for prescription apps
Ironwood signs up with the leading prescription app developer, but Pear is not to everyone’s taste.
Digital therapeutics have potential but commercial success unproven
Software can be a medical device. Can it also be a drug?
Medtech VC and the billion-dollar era
The first one-shot billion-dollar venture investment round in the medical technology sector has gone to Verily as computing bleeds into medicine.