MedTech Dive May 13, 2024
Michelle Tarver, an FDA official, said a new program is meant to advance health equity by considering people’s living conditions as part of medical device design.
The Food and Drug Administration recently launched a home health initiative intended to improve health equity. The initiative, announced by the agency’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health in late April, will consider people’s lived environments as part of device design and clinical trial access.
Many people across the U.S. have difficulty accessing the healthcare system, as well as clinical trials used to generate evidence for medical devices. In particular, people from racial and ethnic minority groups and people who live in rural communities and lower-income neighborhoods are affected the most by these system...
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