[bsder]

> A device like this could have alerted someone at the facility that he had fallen, this is a very big deal and it's going to save lives.

Nope. It will never get deployed.

The problem is that when it fails, who is liable?

I've said it over and over, but the revolution in biomedical will happen when someone solves the problem of indemnity and not before.

[gizmo686]

You mean devices like https://www.medicalalert.com/fall-detection/

Or these https://www.consumeraffairs.com/medical-alert-systems/fall-d...

Wearable fall detection devices are already a relativly crowded field. The liability doesn't seem to have been a show stopper yet.

I don't see why the non-wearable variety should face a substantially higher legal standard (although they do seem more technically challanging).