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The Medical Board of California (MBC) is a state government agency which licenses and disciplines physicians, surgeons and certain allied healthcare professionals in California. The Board provides two principal types of services to consumers: (1) public-record information about California-licensed physicians, and (2) investigation of complaints ...
Medical devices first came under comprehensive regulation with the passage of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 (FD&C), [9] which replaced the earlier Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. The FD&C allowed the FDA to perform factory inspections and prohibited misbranded marketing of cosmetic and therapeutic medical devices. [10]
Standards for validation and verification of medical laboratories are outlined in the international standard ISO 15189, in addition to national and regional regulations. [1] As per United States federal regulations, the following analytical tests need to be done by a medical laboratory that introduces a new testing device:
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Consumer protection in California began with the passage of the Medical Practice Act of 1876. The Act was designed to regulate the State's medical professionals, who up to that point had operated virtually unchecked. However, an actual government agency with the legal authority to enforce the Act was not created until 1878.
Eko was founded in 2013 by Connor Landgraf, Jason Bellet, and Tyler Crouch. Landgraf was inspired to create Eko after seeing the limitations of traditional stethoscopes during his studies in biomedical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and recruited his classmates Bellet and Crouch to join him.
The Emergency Medical Services System and Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act (California Health and Safety Code sections 1797 et seq.) created the Emergency Medical Services Authority in 1980. This legislation (SB 125) was the culmination of several years of effort by local administrators, health care providers, consumer groups ...
Every state discloses license status and at least some disciplinary action to the public, but as of 2018, this was not accessible via the internet for a few states. [50]: 78 Consumers can look up medical licenses in a national database, DocInfo.org, maintained by the medical licensing organizations [50] which contains limited details. [51]