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FDA Announces AI Councils Amid Calls for Greater Agency Transparency

Recently, it was reported that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is launching two cross-agency artificial intelligence (AI) councils. One AI council will be tasked with addressing how the agency uses AI internally...more

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FDA Commissioner Makary Promises “Real Time” Release of Complete Response Letters: Can FDA Really Do That?

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On July 10, 2025, in the name of embracing “radical transparency,” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) announced that it was publishing more than 200 complete response letters (“CRLs”) issued in response to drug and...more

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The Biden Administration’s Swan Song on Digital Health: Two FDA Guidances on Artificial Intelligence and FDA’s Defense of its...

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In the waning days of the Biden administration, the FDA released a flood of new guidance documents and other agency actions, including several important items related to digital health. On January 7, FDA published two new...more

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FDA Dumps Trio of Device-Related Guidances Prior to Administration Change

Among the wave of guidance documents issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA” or the “Agency”) in the first week of 2025 were three notable draft guidance documents pertaining to medical devices (together, the...more

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FDA Issues Draft Guidance for the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Medical Devices and Drug Development

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently issued two draft guidance documents aimed at providing recommendations for the use of AI in medical devices and drug and biological product development.These guidance...more

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2024 FDA Enforcement Review: Quality and Transparency Remain Critical Concerns

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), in partnership with the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), pursued significant and, in some cases, precedent-setting enforcement actions in 2024. The government continued to...more

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FDA Draft Guidance on Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Device Software Functions

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This post is part of MoFo’s 2025 Intersection of AI and Life Sciences blog series. In this blog series, we explore how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing research, innovation, and patient care in the life sciences....more

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FDA Issues Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Device Software Functions Draft Guidance

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued its draft guidance, Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Device Software Functions: Lifecycle Management and Marketing Submission Recommendations on January 7, 2025....more

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AI On the Prize: Decoding FDA's Latest Guidance

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Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued two significant draft guidance documents concerning the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical devices and in drug and biological product development....more

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FDA Issues Draft Guidance on AI-Enabled Medical Devices

The FDA has shared draft guidance on the design and development of AI-enabled medical devices and marketing submissions for those devices. The Importance of Engaging Early Sponsors of AI-enabled devices should engage with the...more

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Navigating the Complex Regulatory Landscape for AI/ML-Enabled Medical Devices

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The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) is revolutionizing the healthcare industry. However, as these innovative devices emerge, understanding the complex regulatory landscape becomes...more

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FDA Highlights the Promise of AI in Healthcare

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On June 17, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Digital Health Center of Excellence (DHCE), published a blog article highlighting the promise of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. In the article, the...more

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FDA Publishes Machine Learning Transparency Guiding Principles for Medical Devices

Further to the guiding principles on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies jointly published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Health Canada, and the United Kingdom’s...more

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Medical Devices updates: Annual performance report, new guiding principles for PCCPs for machine learning-enabled medical devices,...

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Medical Devices Directorate Performance Annual Report - In September 2023, Health Canada published the Medical Devices Directorate Performance Annual Report for April 1, 2022, through March 31, 2023. The report provides...more

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FDA On Use Of AI/ML In Drug Development: Five Key Takeaways

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On Wednesday, May 10, 2023, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the publication of a new discussion paper titled “Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Development of Drug and Biological...more

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FDA Publishes Draft AI/ML-Enabled Medical Device Guidance. Is it Everything We Hoped?

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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

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The Evolving FDA Regulatory Landscape of Artificial Intelligence

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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

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Transatlantic Legal-Regulatory Update: Live from the Heart of Silicon Valley

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US and EU Life Sciences Law firms Fieldfisher & Gardner Law recently held a CLE event in Silicon Valley covering Healthcare Compliance, Data Privacy and Regulatory hot topics for MedTech and Pharma companies. Discussion...more

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FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Cybersecurity in Medical Devices: Quality System Considerations and Content of Premarket Submissions

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On April 8, 2022, FDA issued new, long-awaited draft guidance “Cybersecurity in Medical Devices: Quality System Considerations and Content of Premarket Submissions” (Draft Cybersecurity Guidance). 1 This draft guidance...more

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FDA Joins Other Regulators in Focus on AI and Machine Learning

The Food and Drug Administration recently sought comments on the role of transparency for artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled medical devices. The FDA invited comments in follow up to a recent workshop on the...more

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Five Key Takeaways From FDA’s Transparency Of AI/Ml-Enabled Medical Devices Virtual Workshop

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On October 14, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a virtual public workshop on transparency surrounding Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) enabled medical devices. The workshop focused on the...more

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Coverage of FDA’s AI/ML Medical Devices Workshop - Part 3: A Summary of the Panel Discussions

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

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FDA’s Action Plan for Artificial Intelligence: Highlights and Insights for Developers

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published an Action Plan for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) software on January 12, 2021 that provides near-term actions to develop a regulatory framework for...more

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FDA Continues its Focus on Breast Implant Safety and Transparency with an Eye Toward Improving Regulatory Decision-Making

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In an August 20, 2020, press release, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provided an update on the medical device reports (MDRs) received by the agency relating to breast implants, including breast implant-associated...more

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Protecting Lives Without Destroying Jobs — Using Technology To Suppress COVID-19

Many countries around the world are being forced to watch as the only tool they have to suppress COVID-19 — social distancing — causes unprecedented damage to their economies. Because suppression measures may be required...more

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