Victoria Song
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It actually keeps me awake at night.
It really does keep me awake at night because, you know,
And again, a lot of people were asking why we had to talk about the Maha framing at all with regard to CGMs and wearables at large.
And I feel very passionately that we do have to talk about it because when you frame it in this way that it's good for everyone, I feel something that wearable health concerns.
has not adequately answered at this point in time is how do you distinguish between what is a wellness feature and what is a medical feature?
And this is actually something that's being debated in Washington at this point in time.
Politico has reported that a lot of Washington staffers are wearing loops and aura rings.
Aura is lobbying to have a different classification of device called a digital screener.
And that's just relaxed FDA regulations so that they don't have to go through as rigorous a process as they have been.
And there's valid legitimate reasons for doing that.
Having to go through the FDA clearance process can cost millions of dollars.
some of these features, these detection screening features could save lives.
I mean, we know that the Apple Watch has saved lives, for example, right?
It is one of the reasons why the smartwatch didn't just die into oblivion.
It's that we have atrial fibrillation.
People viewed it as something that was integral to saving their lives.
And we have real life stories of that being the case.
You could look at my case and say this was an unmitigated success.
because I did finally find an answer to something that had been plaguing me for 10 years.