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Food and Drug Administration FDA to schedule public meeting of Medical Devices Advisory Committee to discuss study results about pulse oximeter performance. Meeting consistent with agency efforts to evaluate clinical trial design transparency, diversity, AI development need.

The Food and Drug Administration is convening an advisory panel later this year to investigate

A systems engineering approach to equitable health care solutions

A newly developed open-source patient deterioration model is improving care at the University of Michigan's health system. Now, a study published in the British Medical Journal demonstrates that it is effective at 12 other hospital centers around the United States, outperforming the accuracy of t

Lets hear more from the health secretary sajid javid about his concerns over pulse oximeters, which measure oxygen in the blood. mrjavid was speaking to the bbc. i think possibly, yes, yes. i dont have the full facts, and that will be a cross... these oximeters are being used in every country and they have the same problem, and the reason is a lot of these medical devices, even some of the drugs, and some of the procedures, some of the textbooks, most of them are put together in majority—white...

I do think it would be difficult, right? these devices are used around the world and to change regulations and require additional testing is going to be a lot of work and a lot of expense so i think it is critical for government leaders too, sort of, set the tone and set a new standard because, yeah, ithink set the tone and set a new standard because, yeah, i think it is going to be work but i think it is absolutely necessary work. doctor michael from _ absolutely necessary work. doctor michael ...

The short—term question here is whether we can stay free from further covid restrictions. dan johnson, bbc news. lets stay with that concern over pulse oximeters, mentioned in danjohson�*s report. dr michael sjoding is from the university of michigan. he led research on racial bias in pulse oximetry measurement last year, finding a critical need to understand and correct racial bias in medical technologies. he told me more about his findings. this research came from the covid pandemic. i am ...

Until her clinical rotation in the earliest months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Valeria Valbuena, M.D., then a surgical resident at University of

A T THE PEAK of the coronavirus epidemic in America, hospitals needed to triage patients. Only the sickest were admitted. Others were sent home to self-monitor. One measure used to determine the severity of an individual’s illness was his blood-oxygen level. The devices typically employed to do this, known as pulse oximeters, are easy to use. They clip onto a fingertip like a clothes peg. Regrettably, they record some darker-skinned patients as being healthier than they really are. This may h...

Pulse oximeters may be inaccurate on people of color, FDA warns By Kate Gibson Doctor argues why pulse oximeters are needed Pulse oximeters — viewed as a critical in the fight against COVID-19 — may not work as advertised for people of color. "The devices may be less accurate in people with dark skin pigmentation," the U.S. Food and Drug Administration stated in a safety notice posted on Friday. The FDAs warning offers a toned-down version of recent and even years-ago ...