MedPage Today June 21, 2024
— FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, MD, talks tech
ORLANDO — Technologic advances aren’t fulfilling their promise for improving diabetes or overall health outcomes in the U.S., argued FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, MD.
“We are wowing the world in technology — much of it related to the field that you’re interested in [diabetes],” he told attendees at the keynote opening session of the American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions. “We are not succeeding in implementation of the things that we know. We need to bring these things together so that we harness technology, particularly digital technology and AI [artificial intelligence], to the benefit of the people that we care about.”
He pointed to the dismal numbers: “The U.S. and almost every other...