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The prescription device detects each use and records it to a paired mobile app.
The regulatory changes also come alongside Pre-Cert Program updates and roughly a dozen noteworthy digital health approvals.
The HeartGuide watch uses a flexible synthetic band to inflate and maintain its shape to comfortably take an oscillometric wrist blood pressure on the fly.
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Comprised of a Samsung touch screen device and an app-based platfrom, the InterStim smart programmer helps patients and physicians more easily monitor incontinence implants.
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The eight devices will receive increased guidance and interaction for their clearance efforts, and some will receive Breakthrough Device designation.
According to manufacturer Electrocore, it is the first treatment of any kind to receive the indication.
To encourage healthcare technology innovation and update the 510(k) pathway, the regulatory agency said that it will soon release measures aimed to sunset predicate devices that are over a decade old.