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Leo Antonicelli

Leo Anthony Celi — clinical research director and principal research scientist at MIT's Laboratory for Computational Physiology, ICU physician at Beth Israel Deaconess, and Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Digital Health.

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PODCASTS

Sep 1, 2026

Somewhere on Earth: The Global Tech Podcast

Somewhere on Earth: The Global Tech Podcast

AI Medical Devices: Are We Using Them Before We Know They Work?

Sep 1 · 25m

Ania LichtarowiczHOST

6:23

That it actually works well and that it gives you a correct reading.

Leo AntonicelliGUEST

6:28

So all it's going to ask the company to do is comparison of a pulse oximeter measurement and the actually measured content of the oxygen of the blood.

Leo AntonicelliGUEST

6:40

So that's all it needs to see.

Leo AntonicelliGUEST

6:43

But whether it saves someone who's undergoing surgery, and rightly so, I don't think that that is required for a company to provide data about what happens to the patient.

Leo AntonicelliGUEST

6:58

As I said, these are two very different types of products.

Leo AntonicelliGUEST

7:03

So what works for a static medical device will not necessarily, in fact, will fail.

Leo AntonicelliGUEST

7:09

when you use it as the framework for evaluating artificial intelligence.

Ania LichtarowiczHOST

10:18

Okay, and is there a concern as well that perhaps populations where there is less medical regulation, and obviously the Global South comes to mind here, will in effect become test populations for these medical devices?