FDA to launch Home as a Health Care Hub
By HME News Staff
Updated 10:38 AM CDT, Thu May 16, 2024
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is launching Home as a Health Care Hub, an initiative to help reimagine the home environment as an integral part of the health care system, with the goal of advancing health equity for all people in the U.S. The initiative will serve as an idea lab, not only to connect with populations most affected by health inequity, but also for medical device developers, policy makers and providers to begin developing home-based solutions that advance health equity. The FDA notes that existing models that have examined care delivery at home have found great patient satisfaction, good adherence, and potential cost savings to health care systems. As part of the initiative, the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) has contracted with an architectural firm that intentionally designs innovative buildings with health and equity in mind, to consider the needs of variable models of a home and tailor solutions with opportunities to adapt and evolve in complexity and scale. The Home as a Health Care Hub will be designed as an Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR)-enabled home prototype and is expected to be completed later this year.
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