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“There is certainly not enough known about the use of [artificial intelligence] in direct-to-consumer imaging services,” said Catherine Livingston, an associate professor of family medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University School of Medicine. “We don’t even know that the benefits outweigh harms for whole body scans in asymptomatic people. ... AI is a Pandora’s box.”

After a record-breaking 2021 for the white-hot digital health sector, where the number and size of funding rounds reached new heights, the first quarter saw a slowdown in digital health dealmaking and the IPO market quieted significantly.

The paper highlights the growing trend of hospital outpatient departments and ambulatory surgery centers outsourcing anesthesiology management to profit-driven companies.