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For example biometric tracking , when you go for a run and you get some of the data back to tell you how you ' re doing from a health perspective . They ' re also informational . For example they can help people cope with some of the symptoms that they might be feeling , and provide information much like the website does ."
While companion apps are on the rise , an area that has progressed significantly in recent years is the Software as a Medical Device ( SaMD ) field . " These are web or mobile applications that are actually used for medical purposes " Montgomery explains . " They ' re highly regulated . This is a new area because medical devices for the large part have been hardware-based . SaMD can be an addition , a compliment to a hardware piece , or sometimes standalone technology . An example of that is a software application that connects with hardware to deliver insulin to a diabetic patient . In the past that was a manual process in which you would use a pump or other hardware ."
“ OUR MANTRA IS BUILDING THE RIGHT THING THE RIGHT WAY , AND WE FOCUS ON DOING WORK THAT HAS A POSITIVE IMPACT ”
BRENDON MONTGOMERY SVP GLOBAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT , RANGLE
These advances also mean new compliance and regulations that must be adhered to , and Montgomery explains how Rangle helps healthcare organisations navigate this : " It ' s been our experience that it is less of a tooling thing and more about a process . It actually takes a wildly different approach from a process perspective .
" We developed a process we call compliance by design . This is an effort to extend the idea of digital cross-functional teams into the compliance group . Digital team best practices are
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