FDA Explores Use of Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality in Home Prototype
Summary
On April 23, 2024, the FDA launched a new initiative, Home as a Health Care Hub, to advance health equity across the United States. Although many innovative care options seek to use the home as a virtual care site, few consider the critical elements of the home that are required for remote care, such as how different medical devices and technologies must work together. The agency is working with an architectural firm to design an Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR)-enabled home prototype, which will serve as an idea lab for connecting the populations most affected by health inequity with medical device developers, policymakers and providers. The FDA chose diabetes as the example health condition for the prototype given the “impacts over the lifecycle of someone living with this condition.”
