A small but mighty research outfit based in Hungary has compiled a user-friendly database of medical technologies anchored in AI and approved by the FDA.
The Medical Futurist Institute released the fruit of its labors this month in a study published by npj Digital Medicine.
Institute director Bertalan Meskó, PhD, of Semmelweis University in Budapest and colleagues state that one of their aims is to move the FDA—or any other competent regulatory body—to follow suit.
Until that happens, the institute’s own online database may be as comprehensive, searchable and up-to-date as any a governmental operation might offer.
It’s also available in full for free.
In an accompanying post on the institute’s website, Meskó urges the FDA, European Medicine Agency and similar governmental bodies to step up on behalf of their respective constituencies.
“As AI-based devices and algorithms for medical purposes are becoming integral parts of the healthcare landscape, the importance of such an easily accessible and informative database will become more apparent,” he writes. “Regulatory authorities have the duty to maintain one to allow a better oversight of the credible AI tools managing our health.”
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