[dvndvn]

Good hearted advice but lacking in few aspects. Most medical products are terrible with open integrations and open standards.

I suspect this kind of advice is given by consumer companies for fear of liability than anything else.

In many cases, medical devices that have consumer equivalents don't have anything extra than a better written user agreement and little more liability.

[brlewis]

The distinction between medical and non-medical devices is meaningful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_device