David Rosen Offers Insight on Regulatory Approach to Technology in Health Care Training

Foley & Lardner LLP partner David Rosen is quoted in the Hospital Management article, “Hospital 2040: Simulation in healthcare training,” commenting on areas of focus for regulators given the rise of simulated experiences in health care training.

“As long as it’s just for training purposes and it is not used to do the actual surgery, so long as it shows the appropriate anatomy and that sort of thing, if it’s just an educational tool, that’s a lot less regulated than if you are doing a procedure in real-time with a real patient,” Rosen explained. “Any tool like this just needs to make sure that it’s accurate and appropriate and provides the correct instructions for a physician so that they can learn the technology or do a new surgery or something like that.”

Rosen noted that despite the increasing accuracy and immersion of virtual reality technology, “there is nothing like the real thing.” He added that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is currently putting together information on areas such as machine learning alongside artificial intelligence, but that this area of concern is seen as separate from the use of emerging training technology like VR, which Rosen said sees typically the least amount of regulation.