Digital Health Roundup, May 2021: Immersive Technologies In Surgery Suite, ‘Smart’ Toilets And Pills; New SaMD Cybersecurity Standards
Executive Summary
In this new roundup feature focusing on the most notable developments in digital health, we pick the key news from May.
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