{"id":4937,"date":"2016-12-01T23:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/?p=4937"},"modified":"2022-06-12T18:23:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T18:23:42","slug":"rapid-growth-in-home-use-of-medical-devices-requires-new-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/2016\/12\/01\/rapid-growth-in-home-use-of-medical-devices-requires-new-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapid Growth in Home Use of Medical Devices Requires New Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read the recent\u00a0IEC e-tech magazine article (in Oct 2016 e-tech) titled &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/iecetech.org\/issue\/2016-10\/Rapid-growth-in-home-use-of-medical-devices-requires-new-standards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rapid growth in home use of medical devices requires new standards<\/a>&#8216;. \u00a0It discusses both medical and non-medical home use devices and where standards development is going. \u00a0Also, it discusses wellness devices which can be\u00a0a medical device or a non-medical device depending on its intended use, in some countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;IEC work underpins fast growing support for home use of health and wellness devices&#8217; &#8211; IEC e-tech article quote<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4975\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4975\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4975 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Dexcom-G5-transmitter_IEC_e-Tech_article_Oct2016-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"Dexcom G5 Mobile is a compact continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system that can provide accurate, real-time glucose readings every five minutes for people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes on mobile devices (Photo: Dexcom, Inc.)\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dexcom G5 Mobile is a compact continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system that can provide accurate, real-time glucose readings every five minutes for people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes on mobile devices (Photo: Dexcom, Inc.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iecetech.org\/issue\/2016-10\/Rapid-growth-in-home-use-of-medical-devices-requires-new-standards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IEC has published the above article<\/a>\u00a0that I\u00a0originally wrote back in August 2016 (The above IEC article is written\u00a0with a slightly different spin on it)\u00a0for<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4854\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4854\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/incompliancemag.com\/article\/home-use-medical-and-wellness-devices\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4854 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/InCompliance-Aug-2016-Cover-Pg-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"InCompliance Aug 2016 Cover Pg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo courtesy of In Compliance Magazine, Aug 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/incompliancemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">InCompliance Magazine<\/a> titled <a href=\"http:\/\/incompliancemag.com\/article\/home-use-medical-and-wellness-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Home Use Medical and Wellness Devices&#8221;<\/a>.<br \/>\nBoth articles are worth a read as you will learn different information\u00a0from each one.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy the two articles and if there is anything I can answer please contact me at either <a href=\"mailto:Leo at EsnerSafety dot com\">Leo at EsnerSafety dot com<\/a> or 503-244-6151.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the recent\u00a0IEC e-tech magazine article (in Oct 2016 e-tech) titled &#8216;Rapid growth in home use of medical devices requires new standards&#8216;. \u00a0It discusses both medical and non-medical home use devices and where standards development is going. \u00a0Also, it discusses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6629,"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937\/revisions\/6629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eisnersafety.com\/eisnersafetycom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}