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Apple starts rejecting medicine dosage apps with huge implications for doctors, patients and other healthcare professionals (Huge overreaction to uChek RT @Medgadget: Apple now rejecting new medical apps that include drug dosages |
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eMedToday's insight:
As Pharma develop mobile apps around drug profile this might be a problem
This is interesting new development and the author raises number of key issues that arise from Apple now in the drug screening business.
For example what about Epocrates and Medscape
"The ability to look up a drug dosage on a mobile device is one of the main reasons healthcare professionals use a mobile device. At this point, it’s unclear if apps like Epocrates or Medscape are free from the Section 1.2 rule since they could argue they are using dosage information from the medicine’s manufacturer. But how does Apple confirm the dosages are correct? "