The United States Government and its terrorist arm, the FDA, apparently have a monopoly on medical information that you’d better not challenge. Unapproved mobile apps are now a potential criminal venture. The FDA is proposing that it should be the supreme authority concerning the wonderful world of mobile medical applications. The corrupt agency says it doesn’t propose to oversee all apps – just those that “could present a risk to patients if the apps don’t work as intended.” This is the consummate, disjointed governmentspeak – a proposal that could be interpreted to mean whatever the Feds want it to mean at any point in time.
The Feds want to regulate apps to protect you from the “quack” mobile apps that contain information that has not been approved by the almighty powers of medical intelligence. “Quack” – meaning information or protocol that bucks the government’s declared monopoly on information and treatment for any and all medical conditions. These mobile medical apps will be defined as “regulated medical devices.” This is from the FDA’s draft guidelines: