Healthcare Innovation April 26, 2024
David Raths

Hub will be designed as an Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR)-enabled home prototype and is expected to be completed later this year

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched an initiative, Home as a Health Care Hub, to help reimagine the home environment as an integral part of the health care system.

The FDA noted that while many care options are attempting to use the home as a virtual clinical site, few have considered the structural and critical elements of the home that will be required to absorb this transference of care. Moreover, devices intended for use in the home tend to be designed to operate in isolation rather than as part of an integrated, holistic environment. As a result,...

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Topics: Equity/SDOH, FDA, Govt Agencies, Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, Home, Metaverse/VR, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology
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