FDA seeks feedback on digital tools for diabetes
The FDA has opened a comment period, extending until the end of the month, that is seeking information on how digital health technologies (DHTs) might be deployed to help prevent, detect, and manage diabetes. The call has gone out from Troy Tazbaz, the ex-Oracle executive who was recently appointed director of the FDA’s Digital Health Centre of Excellence, (DHCoE). The consultation is asking how DHTs can extend care into people’s homes and communities, play a role in early detection and prevention of the disease, and potentially even help to reverse type 2 diabetes. It also wants to hear how they might be used to prevent some of the common complications of diabetes, such as blindness, peripheral nerve damage, and cardiovascular and kidney diseases. ''... the full potential of DHTs for the detection of prediabetes and undiagnosed diabetes, especially in diverse populations, particularly racial and ethnic minorities, has yet to be realised.” said Tazbaz.