FDA + hks
Imagine the home
as a partner in health.
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Medical construction & design
FDA, HKS Partner to Develop Health Care at Home Prototype
fierce healthcare
FDA spends $1.2M on VR-enabled hub to spur development of at-home care devices
Medtech dive
FDA targets health inequality by improving at-home devices
The "Home as a Health Care Hub" initiative seeks to drive innovation in home-based health and wellness solutions through virtual reality (VR) home prototypes.
Home as a Health Care Hub
Identify and implement sustainable solutions that reduce energy consumption and minimize commuting needs, enhancing the overall environmental impact and efficiency of integrated health care technologies within the home environment.
Drive Sustainability
Develop a virtual environment that fosters collaboration between device developers and housing developers to ensure that health technologies and home environments are designed together, rather than in isolation, to meet users' health and wellness needs equitably.
Break Silos
Tailor interventions to enhance digital literacy to ensure that residents can fully benefit from integrated health care technologies, ultimately improving their health outcomes and reducing disparities.
Build Digital Literacy
Understand patients and their caregivers within the context of their lived experiences, daily activities, needs, and desires, with a particular focus on their levels of health literacy.
Capture Equitable Insights
Respond to current challenges and identify opportunities to create adaptable, resilient, and infrastructure-ready low-income housing that integrates health technology across diverse user groups, starting with the low-income population.
Develop Home Readiness
Understand opportunities for integrating health technology to better support diabetes monitoring and management at home and reimagine the home environment as a health care hub to advance health equity for all people in the U.S.
Bridge Health, Home & Tech
This project aims to
We’re researchers and designers, analysts and scientists, makers and thinkers bringing diverse perspectives to the conversation.
Meet THE Team
Cory Brugger
Chief Technology
Officer
Julie Hiromoto
Director of Integration
Lisa Sgarlata
Clinician,
Senior Consultant
Deborah Wingler
PhD, EDAC, LSSYB
Global Practice Director,
Applied Research
Neil Alexander
Global Practice Director, Advisory
Rand Ekman
Chief Sustainability Officer
Sheba Ross
Global Practice Director, Cities and Communities
Michelle Tarver, MD, PhD
MD, PhD
FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Chief Transformation Officer
Yiselle Santos Rivera
Global Director of Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion
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Deborah Wingler
Global Practice Director, Applied Research
Upali Nanda
PhD, Assoc. AIA, EDAC, ACHE
Global Sector Director, Innovation
Motion Detector
to Prevent Falls
Automatic Shades
to Control Lighting
Glucose Monitor
Blood Pressure Monitoring
Fall Detection Mat
Smart Furniture
Apps and Equipment
for Physical Activity
Imagine if our homes became the nexus of our health, equitably accessible for all. Envision a home that partners in your well-being, leveraging health technology and the built environment to reduce the burden of care. What if this could be achieved even for complex conditions like diabetes in resource-constrained homes within affordable housing? Despite numerous preventive, diagnostic, and treatment methods, managing diabetes effectively remains challenging, especially for racial and ethnic minorities, low-income, and rural populations in the U.S. To address this, the FDA has partnered with interdisciplinary global design firm HKS to develop a prototype virtual home environment that will serve as an idea lab and a tool to aid in medical device design.
Brian Sands
Innovation Manager
Alex Johnson
Consultant - Advisory
Courtney Ousley
Senior Advisor
Nikola Gjurchinoski
Architect & Researcher
Rutali Joshi
Senior Design Researcher
Nethra Ram Mohan
Firmwide Immersive Technology Lead
