Medtronic Endoscopy Chief AI Officer Ha Hong [Photo by Hardy Wilson for Medical Design & Outsourcing]
The latest version of the AI-powered Medtronic GI Genius system for colonoscopy is smarter, more helpful, and has room for third-party apps developed by other devicemakers.Those third-party software-as-a-medical-device (SaMD) apps “could be anything,” Medtronic Endoscopy Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer Ha Hong said in an interview with Medical Design & Outsourcing.
“The beauty of the GI Genius system is that it’s already been deployed by thousands of hospitals worldwide,” he said. “And as long as the hospital has the system already, the third-party application developers will be able to t…