AI in Healthcare: Driving the Next Wave of Innovation
For US healthcare, the wall has never been technology or talent; it has been the FDA.
For years, getting an AI model through the FDA was like trying to get a new drug approved. The moment there was any revision, it meant a complete regulatory reset. It was like starting from the start line, each time.
It is changing, and it’s good to see regulators trying to adapt to where the world has moved. Morrison & Foerster confirmed that the FDA is creating a new, more flexible framework to oversee AI that changes on the fly.
It is not just the FDA, though; the UAE came up a few months earlier with a healthcare sandbox, which is supposed to ultimately make the product development and speed up access to regulation and compliance. The focus for this new infrastructure and compliance support globally is mostly on AI models, which can learn and adapt in real-time, based on new data, and thus help in not going to regulators each time.
So helpful in intention, but let’s see how the changes are.
Some use cases where this will be immensely helpful are:
- An AI diagnostic assistance tool that gets smarter with every new patient case it sees.
- A predictive model for sepsis that adapts to the specific patient population of your hospital.
- A drug discovery algorithm that continuously learns from new research and real-world evidence.
While faster approvals help, this is about building a healthcare system that is constantly learning and improving.
At Mind IT Systems, we are closely watching these developments across the globe. Our own healthcare projects and products require an evolved regulatory landscape, and hoping that these efforts of regulators catch up to the technology.
How much faster could you innovate if your AI models could learn and adapt in real-time without a full regulatory reset?
Source: Morrison & Foerster – AI Trends For 2026 – How AI Is Rewiring Clinical Workflows and Medical Devices
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Shailendra Gupta
(Co-Founder and CEO of Mind IT Systems)
Shailendra is Co-Founder and CEO of Mind IT Systems and is responsible for strategy and business relations.
With around two decades of experience in getting things done in marketing, sales, strategy, delivery, or technology, he has a successful track record of leading startups and mid-size companies and being a prime contributor to stakeholder management, growth, and value creation. A thought leader in the geo-social space, he is highly respected for realizing new paradigms in marketing, solutions, and approaches.