In this month’s Digital Health Roundup, Medtech Insight’s Marion Webb highlights her interview with Verily’s CMO and CSO, Andrew Trister at ViVE on leveraging AI for precision health and a DHIS West conference panel discussion on use cases of generative AI. Elizabeth Orr discusses the impact on the newly adopted EU AI Act on device makers and concerns raised by industry members.

Medtech Insight's News We're Watching highlights some recent business and R&D developments you may have missed. This week, Biosense Webster’s Varipulse PFA platform earned a CE mark; Biosense Webster also announced the start the pivotal IDE study of its Laminar left atrial appendage elimination system; the FDA approved Boston Scientific's Agent paclitaxel-coated balloon and cleared Medtronic's OsteoCool 2.0 bone ablation system; three papers in Science Robotics describe magnetically controlled vascular robots that could go places wires and catheters cannot.

iRhythm CEO Quentin Blackford returned to Medtech Insight’s Cardio Conversations podcast to talk about the launch of his company’s new Zio monitor patch supported by a sophisticated neural network. He also addressed the company’s plans to improve its position in the mobile cardiac telemetry market, the impact of pulsed field ablation on the cardiac monitoring business, and more.

This week, the US government relaunched a program providing free COVID-19 tests and invested $600m in domestic test manufacturing; the European Commission revealed an antitrust investigation of Edwards LifeSciences; and a consulting firm report said the medtech industry should make big changes to address investor skepticism.