FDA introduces the Home as a Health Care Hub system

The FDA announced a new initiative aimed to help reimagine the home environment as an integral part of the health care system. The Home as a Health Care Hub is intended to enable solutions that seamlessly integrate medical devices and health care, prevention and wellness into people’s lives and may: 

• Help medical device developers consider novel design approaches. 
• Aid providers to consider opportunities to extend care options and educate patients.
• Generate discussions on value-based care paradigms.
• Open opportunities to bring clinical trials and other evidence generation processes to underrepresented communities.