FDA has approved 1,500+ AI-enabled medical devices for tasks like tumor detection
castrotech · x · 2026-09-15
Responding to the AMA's opposition to AI in health care, the author notes government intervention will be necessary and points to existing progress: the FDA has approved more than 1,500 medical devices that include AI to perform discrete tasks such as spotting a tumor or a blood clot—regulators are already well ahead of the professional association's resistance.
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