Europe is facing a medical device gridlock as companies wait to have old and new products certified under the recently enforced Medical Device Regulation. The European Council has extended deadlines so that existing devices will not disappear from the market, but the ever-lengthening wait for certification is crippling start-ups that need approval in order to attract investors and move their innovative new devices to the market.
Last week, a Czech team presented a study showing that an AI they developed is more accurate than human radiologists at detecting suspicious lesions in lung X-rays.