In an ongoing effort to get more AI into health care, the FDA just approved the marketing of an algorithm that detects wrist fractures.
The news: The software, called Imagen OsteoDetect, marks the location in an x-ray where a wrist is broken. Two different studies by Imagen Tech, the company behind the new product, showed that orthopedic hand surgeons were better at spotting fractures when using the tool.

Background: This isn’t the first AI to get the green light from the FDA. Earlier this year, the agency gave the go-ahead for a company to market an AI-based diagnostic device for ophthalmology, and it approved deep-learning-powered software to help detect strokes.

The future: More AI in health care could be coming soon. Last month, FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb said that AI holds a lot of promise for the future of medicine and that the agency was creating a new regulatory framework to speed up the approval process for devices and tools that use the technology.