Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 236: Advocating for Accessible Diagnoses with Sydney Severance of Operation Upright
Federal Court Strikes Down FDA Rule on LDTs - Thought Leaders in Health Law®
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 233: Prioritizing Women’s Health Through Innovation with Lindsey Calcutt of Incora Health
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 228: Designing & Manufacturing Auto-Injectors with Kimberlee Steele of SHL Medical
Building a Business at the Intersection of Neurodata and Innovation With Rob Cooley
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 26: U.S. Enforcement Trends Targeting Foreign Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Manufacturers
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 209: North Carolina’s Life Sciences Industry with Laura Gunter of NCLifeSci
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 208: Extended Reality Technology and the ThinkReality Headset with Mattney Beck of Lenovo
AI in the Operating Room: Liability Issues for Device Makers — The Good Bot Podcast
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 201: SHL Medical’s Investment in the Carolinas with Kimberlee Steele of SHL Medical
The FDA's Response to AI Medical Innovation — The Good Bot Podcast
Meet Meaghan Luster: Patent Litigation Associate at Wolf Greenfield
FDA Releases Laboratory-Developed Tests Final Rule – Thought Leaders in Health Law
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 177: Brain Health and Research with Dr. Fridriksson, Neuroscientist, Professor, & Vice President of Research at the Universit
Transparency and the Open Payments Program
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 19
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 18
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 17
Health + Tech - Improving Cancer Care With Digital Health Tools
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 14
Ariel Seeley served on the panel titled AI Trends in Medical Devices: Global Developments, FDA Policies, and Software as a Medical Device at the 2025 Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI) Annual Conference. The panel provided an...more
Neil Young once sang of adapting to a world ruled by data and digital minds in “Computer Age.” Today, that vision feels increasingly real as the Food and Drug Administration turns to artificial intelligence (“AI”) in the face...more
The FDA is moving quickly to bring artificial intelligence (AI) into the heart of its regulatory review process. On May 8, 2025, the agency announced the successful completion of its first AI-assisted scientific review—and...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been ahead of the curve for a number of years on emerging issues and opportunities for the agency and regulated industry arising from the advent and evolution of artificial...more
On May 8, 2025, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the completion of its generative artificial intelligence (AI) pilot program for scientific reviewers. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary was quoted in the...more
If the initiative proceeds as planned, it will mark a pivotal shift in the regulatory landscape, introducing both efficiencies and novel questions related to the reliability and validity of the AI reviews, as well as...more
U.S. Senate Artificial Intelligence Caucus co-chairs Mike Rounds (R-SD) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) recently introduced S. 1399, the “Health Tech Investment Act,” which would establish a Medicare reimbursement pathway for...more
Artificial intelligence has become one of the most transformative forces in health care, reshaping everything from drug discovery to diagnostics. For pharmaceutical and medical device companies, AI-driven solutions present...more
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed an algorithm that harnesses AI to help accelerate the process of matching potential volunteers for relevant clinical research trials. The algorithm,...more
Welcome to Vital Signs, a curated compilation of the latest legal and regulatory developments in digital health. Our lead article reports on recent developments in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's ("FDA") regulatory...more
n March 15, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a paper titled “Artificial Intelligence and Medical Products: How CBER, CDER, CDRH, and OCP are Working Together.” This paper describes the FDA’s strategy for...more
We have been writing about software as a medical device (SaMD) for years, tracking the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) efforts to keep up with the fast-paced development of digital technology, such as launching the...more
This post explores how bias can creep into word embeddings like word2vec, and I thought it might make it more fun (for me, at least) if I analyze a model trained on what you, my readers (all three of you), might have written....more
Would it surprise you if I told you that a popular and well-respected machine learning algorithm developed to predict the onset of sepsis has shown some evidence of racial bias? How can that be, you might ask, for an...more
On April 3, 2023, FDA released the draft guidance titled “Marketing Submission Recommendations for a Predetermined Change Control Plan for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML)-Enabled Device Software Functions”...more
Connected medical devices are used to assist with diagnosing, monitoring or treating a medical condition and thereby facilitate the remote management of a medical condition by healthcare professionals. Such medical devices...more
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare has been growing rapidly in recent years, and AI-enabled medical devices are playing a larger role in patient care. Such devices may use machine learning algorithms to...more
First mentioned in a 2019 discussion paper entitled “Proposed Regulatory Framework for Modifications to Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML)-Based Software as a Medical Device (SaMD),” the idea of a defined set of...more
As artificial intelligence technology evolves on a seemingly minute-by-minute basis, the U.S. FDA’s regulatory approach continues to evolve in an effort to keep pace. “The promise of artificial intelligence in medicine is...more
Artificial intelligence (AI) is expanding into more industries (often in surprising ways) and has inevitably caught the attention of federal and state regulators. Our Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team summarizes the...more
In the weeks leading up to FDA’s October 14, 2021 Transparency of AI/ML Enabled Medical Devices Workshop (Workshop), we took a brief look at the history of FDA’s regulation of medical device software and the agency’s more...more
In our last post, we took a brief look back through history at FDA’s approach to regulating medical device software and found that there is little distinction from the agency’s approach to hardware devices. Recently,...more
As we mentioned in the early days of the pandemic, COVID-19 has been accompanied by a rise in cyberattacks worldwide. At the same time, the global response to the pandemic has accelerated interest in the collection, analysis,...more
Researchers from the University of Washington have developed a system that uses smart speakers and machine learning algorithms to monitor heartbeats without the need for physical contact. The system was described in a study...more
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has acknowledged the prevalence of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML)-Based Software as Medical Devices (SaMDs) and has been taking steps towards advancing its regulatory...more