First Prescription App for Substance Abuse Approved by FDA

Posted by fern12 on Friday September 22, 2017 @03:19PM
from the spectrum.ieee.org dept.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/first-prescription-app-for-substance-abuse-approved-by-fda

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Re:First Prescription App for Substance Abuse Approved by FDA by vivekd on Saturday September 23, 2017 @11:06AM (#15320054)

Jonathan Bricker makes an excellent point - since the app has no risks of side effects why bother making it prescription only?

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Re:First Prescription App for Substance Abuse Approved by FDA by trhway on Saturday September 23, 2017 @09:16PM (#15322715)

i guess making it prescription only would make insurance pay for it, thus the app maker can charge something like say several hundred dollars instead of $2.99 if it was an openly available app.

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Re:First Prescription App for Substance Abuse Approved by FDA by sulizilxia on Friday September 22, 2017 @09:43PM (#15317535)

The prescription-only aspect of this is really depressing to me. This is not the road we should be going down.

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Re:First Prescription App for Substance Abuse Approved by FDA by axonic on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @03:15PM (#15341662)

So... Next, when I write a similar app now it will be classified as some kind of "medical" app and be barred from distribution without a prescription and the years of paying off the FDA for approval? To protect profits of Big Pharma Apps huh? Is this where we're headed?

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Re:First Prescription App for Substance Abuse Approved by FDA by asimpletune on Friday September 22, 2017 @08:15PM (#15317162)

I wonder how much the app will cost

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