All Hands Meeting for the Health-Conscious, Post-Pandemic: Wearable Technologies Turned Medical Devices and the FDA

This blog discusses the regulatory implications of wearable technology such as WHOOP and FitBit that have made an effort to use respiratory patterns in their devices to detect COVID-19 pre-symptoms. This blog further analyzes how the fact that wearable technology is often not considered a medical device effects how the technology is regulated. Finally, this blog explores how the federal standards among medical devices and wearable tech is likely to change in a post-pandemic world and looks at what wearable technology may expect from federal regulators going forward.… Read More All Hands Meeting for the Health-Conscious, Post-Pandemic: Wearable Technologies Turned Medical Devices and the FDA