{"id":307163,"date":"2026-02-20T01:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/307163\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T01:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:43:13","slug":"fda-taps-ai-executive-to-lead-digital-health-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/307163\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA taps AI executive to lead digital health center"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the practice of health care and the business and policy challenges to realizing tech\u2019s promise. He\u2019s also the co-author of the free, twice weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter<\/a>. You can reach Mario on Signal at mariojoze.13.<\/p>\n

The Food and Drug Administration has tapped a former executive from a health artificial intelligence company to lead its digital health center.<\/p>\n

Rick Abramson, formerly a chief medical officer at a subsidiary of Harrison.ai<\/a>, which develops AI products to interpret radiological images, is the new director of the Digital Health Center of Excellence, according to two people familiar with the appointment. The move comes as the agency wrestles with the future regulation of AI.<\/p>\n

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Abramson has since last summer been working as a senior adviser in the commissioner\u2019s office. In January, the agency announced<\/a> it would soften the regulation of AI products that support clinician decision-making, and allow more wellness products to avoid FDA review. Three agency employees told STAT at the time that the push to deregulate was led by Abramson and two other officials in the commissioner\u2019s office: Jared Seehafer and Shantanu Nundy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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