DATE: February 19, 2026 at 03:32PMSOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECH
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DATE: February 19, 2026 at 03:32PM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: FDA taps AI executive to lead digital health center
The Food and Drug Administration has tapped a former executive from a health artificial intelligence company to lead its digital health center.
Rick Abramson, formerly a chief medical officer at a subsidiary of Harrison.ai, which develops AI products to interpret radiological images, is the new director of the Digital Health Center of Excellence, according to two people familiar with the appointment. The move comes as the agency wrestles with the future regulation of AI.
Abramson has since last summer been working as a senior advisor in the commissioner’s office. In January, the agency announced it would soften the regulation of AI products that support clinician decisionmaking, and allow more wellness products to escape FDA review. Three agency employees told STAT at the time that the push to deregulate was led by Abramson and two other officials in the commissioner’s office: Jared Seehafer and Shantanu Nundy.
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