Device Tax Threatens Mobile App Developers; For Now, Though, Uncertainty Reigns

Questions about how the medical device tax could impact software application developers emerged at a June 20 American Enterprise Institute workshop.

Mobile health apps developers who are unsure whether their products fall within FDA-regulated territory may have another reason to worry, thanks to the medical device tax slated to take effect next January.

Joel White, executive director of the Health IT Now Coalition, said at a June 20 mobile health apps workshop that his group has endorsed a House-passed bill to repeal the...

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