Final Home-Use Device Guidance Expected Mostly ‘As Is’ By Year’s End
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Representatives of home health care and device companies, hospital staff, home health care professionals, device standard-setting groups and consultants put together a draft priority list of challenges and solutions for home-use devices at an Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation summit meeting earlier this month, anticipating finalized FDA guidance by the end of the year.
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