STAT+: Health tech’s 2024 hiring outlook: Balance tips toward employers
Health tech hopefuls might once have been used to a wealth of job options, especially…
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STAT+: AI tools and a desire to do more with less is expected to drive health systems’ 2024 tech spend
Hospitals and clinics are expecting a slightly better 2024 compared to last year thanks to…
STAT+: New federal rules demand transparency into AI models used in health decisions
Federal health technology regulators on Wednesday finalized new rules to force software vendors to disclose…
STAT+: Humana used algorithm in ‘fraudulent scheme’ to deny care to Medicare Advantage patients, lawsuit alleges
Medicare Advantage beneficiaries on Tuesday filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the health insurance giant…
STAT+: NEJM aims to hold AI to account with new publication
One of the most prestigious names in medical publishing is going all in on artificial…
Opinion: STAT+: Health care AI requires a new Hippocratic oath
It was no surprise when the Biden administration recently outlined in a broad executive order…
ChatGPT doesn’t know much about drugs, Hims & Hers enters weight-loss market
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STAT+: Patients wants test results now, and radiologists need time to explain. Can they meet in the middle?
One of the hardest parts about getting an X-ray or a CT scan is the…
STAT+: Radiology captures the tension between AI’s potential and concern for patients
Radiology has long led the way in the application of artificial intelligence in medicine. More…
Takeda, Janssen join wearable maker to measure scratching, and other health tech news
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Opinion: How artificial intelligence could make pregnancy discrimination in employment more common
In June 2023, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) went into effect. The federal law…
A new algorithm unveils CRISPR ‘treasure trove’
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STAT+: Health tech startups warn that overregulating AI could hamper innovation
Entrepreneurs across the country desperate to bring the power of AI into health care are…
How the shakeup at OpenAI underscores the need for AI standards in health care
The leadership turmoil within OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, is triggering calls for stepped-up efforts…
STAT+: UnitedHealth pushed employees to follow an algorithm to cut off Medicare patients’ rehab care
The nation’s largest health insurance company pressured its medical staff to cut off payments for…
STAT+: DeepMind touts AlphaFold’s new skills as protein-folding AI models face off
On Tuesday, Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs announced a significant progress update on the next…
STAT+: White House AI order calls for crackdown on abuses, harms in health care
President Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence amounts to a giant course correction in health…
In new order on AI, Biden is scrambling to catch up to emerging risks in health care
President Joe Biden ordered the nation’s leading health agencies on Monday to develop a plan…
STAT+: For Parkinson’s disease, advances spurred by Apple Watch offer a glimmer of hope
Since the Apple Watch was unveiled in 2014, it has been trumpeted not only as…
Opinion: Done right, AI can give patients crucial information on the quality of their care
Almost as soon as ChatGPT was released to the public, doctors began focusing on how…
STAT+: UnitedHealth discontinues a controversial brand amid scrutiny of algorithmic care denials
UnitedHealth Group and Optum are getting rid of the name of their tech-driven care management…
Doctor vs. ChatGPT showed promise and blind spots of generative AI
Generative AI tools, also known as large language models, are already helping doctors transcribe visits…
STAT+: After a lull, the pace of FDA authorization of AI-enabled medical devices is rising
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday released a new accounting of artificial intelligence tools…
Opinion: How good are AI health technologies? We have no idea
AI has the ability to revolutionize human health. It is used to detect potentially cancerous lesions in…
STAT+: How doctors and nurses shape Google’s AI, DEA extends telehealth flexibilities
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The ‘model-eat-model world’ of clinical AI: How predictive power becomes a pitfall
A growing number of AI tools are being used to predict everything from sepsis to…
STAT+: Venture capital firm General Catalyst wants to buy a health system
Venture firms, convinced they’re jumpstarting the world’s most helpful tech products, have struggled mightily to…
Opinion: The next frontier in biomedicine: AI models of the human immune system
If the Covid-19 pandemic has shown us one thing, it is how little we really…
Opinion: AI-driven data analysis could exacerbate misaligned incentives in biomedical research
This summer OpenAI released Code Interpreter, a plug-in for the popular ChatGPT tool that allows…
AlphaFold developers and eye scan inventors among Lasker Award winners for 2023
The prestigious Lasker Awards for biomedical research are sometimes referred to as “America’s Nobel,” and…
Researchers use AI to measure recovery from treatment-resistant depression
Researchers say they’ve been able to measure recovery from treatment-resistant depression through brain scans —…
STAT Virtual Event: Putting AI to the Test
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STAT+: AI is coming to your dentist’s office. Will it build trust, or erode it?
Open wide, AI wants a look inside your mouth. A new wave of software is…
STAT+: Machine learning biotech raises $273 million in rare successful late-stage round
Biotech startup Generate Biomedicines, which uses artificial intelligence to find new drugs, raised $273 million…
STAT+: How Silicon Valley’s hospital whisperer bridges the gap between startups and health systems
SAN FRANCISCO — As part of one of the tech industry’s most revered venture funds,…
Opinion: STAT+: Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson: The right way to bring AI into pharma
While it’s widely accepted that the pharma industry is innovative in R&D, it is also…
STAT+: Generative AI Tracker: A guide to the health systems and companies driving adoption
Health care leaders and technology companies are investing heavily in large language models, a powerful…
STAT+: Moving beyond ChatGPT: How generative AI is inspiring dreams of a health data revolution
The world’s largest technology companies are racing to build generative AI into every corner of…
Lawmakers call on FDA to issue stricter bone graft guidance
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STAT+: NYU launched private ChatGPT for its health data, and set its staff loose to experiment
NEW YORK — A fourth-year medical student, a music therapist, a child psychiatrist, and a…
Opinion: Current large language models will not fix health care. Here’s what could
Advancements in LLMs such as ChatGPT and GPT-4 have generated substantial excitement. Many see these…
YouTube cracks down on misinformation on cancer treatment
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STAT+: BMS, looking to build a market for a heart drug, turns to a Viz.ai algorithm to detect disease
As Bristol Myers Squibb works to build its treatment for a heart condition that can…
Opinion: STAT+: One way to create resilient drug supply chains: incentivize predictive models
My first exposure to pharmaceutical shortages happened in 2017 as a new-to-practice nurse working on…
TytoCare raises $49 million to build out AI-enhanced chronic care
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Opinion: ‘Oppenheimer’ is a must-watch for everyone who works in AI and health care
All great stories have complicated endings. But that doesn’t mean they can’t offer simple and…
STAT+: Verily hires former Apple Health leader Andrew Trister as chief scientific officer
As Verily aims to get on track, the Alphabet life science company has hired Andrew…
STAT+: Microsoft strikes partnership with Duke Health to advance AI in medicine
On Tuesday, Duke Health and Microsoft announced a five-year partnership that will support artificial intelligence…
STAT+: How Y Combinator’s only health care partner decides which startups are worth a shot
This story is the first in a series of profiles of influential figures and decision-makers…
A health system tests virtual reality to help train nurses
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