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New Soom Mobile App Connects Patients with Medical Device Recalls

July 17, 2019

Following an alarming number of device recalls, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has beefed up its medical device adverse event reporting procedures. But despite efforts to simplify this process and increase public access to these documents, device users may not become aware of this information until it’s too late.

Charlie Kim, a father and business leader from the Boston area, knows first-hand the consequences of being kept in the dark. His daughter nearly died from a medical device failure as a result of him not knowing that the same device was recalled earlier that year.

Read the full Xtalks article here.