A book like this is the result of the hard work of many. We thank our student line editors for their meticulous work.1 We are grateful to Laura Chong and Chloe Reichel for their administrative support in organizing the conference that gave rise to this book. We are also grateful for Laura Chong’s hard work shepherding all the many pieces of this manuscript. We thankfully acknowledge the …
It may seem counterintuitive to open a book on medical devices with chapters on software and data, but these are the frontiers of new medical device regulation and law. Physical devices are still crucial to medicine, but they - and medical practice as a whole - are embedded in and permeated by networks of software and caches of data. Those software systems are often mindbogglingly complex and l…