The AMA’s new president on medicine’s ‘AI era’ and the uncertain future of telehealth
Much has been made of Jesse Ehrenfeld’s career of firsts. The current president of the…
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A new deal aims to ramp up use of AI in rehab care decisions
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Preparation over panic: How a Boston hospital is priming medical residents for an era of AI medicine
BOSTON — On a Friday morning in July, an internal medicine resident at Beth Israel…
Opinion: Policymakers who want to regulate AI need to start talking to health care industry representatives
Recently, the fervor over artificial intelligence has given way to expressions of fears of the…
STAT+: To get better heart data from wearables, researchers train AI to separate the signal from the noise
As wearable health devices grow more popular in the U.S., there’s a growing opportunity to…
STAT+: ‘Doctors need to get on top of this’: GPT-4 displays bias in medical tasks
Diagnosis is an especially tantalizing application for generative AI: Even when given tough cases that…
Opinion: AI can’t replicate this key part of practicing medicine
I’ve heard “WebMD said it could be cancer” countless times in my 15 years working…
STAT+: As fear rises over AI, Google and Epic fight stronger regulation of the technology in health care
Big businesses poised to profit from the advance of artificial intelligence in health care are…
Digital health funding stays low as a new reality sets in
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STAT+: How UnitedHealth’s acquisition of a popular Medicare Advantage algorithm sparked internal dissent over denied care
Frustration was boiling into open conflict within NaviHealth, a company that uses computer predictions to…
STAT+: Palantir’s small but growing health-software business leans on meeting customers’ demands
PALO ALTO, Calif. — At a bustling artificial intelligence conference in June hosted by data…
Opinion: Pharma can’t let Big Tech win the race for medical AI
Five years from now, when patients walk into a doctor’s office presenting symptoms of almost…
A replacement for race: Medical experts explore how to eliminate bias in clinical algorithms
WASHINGTON — Most of the medical community has acknowledged that racism is baked into many…
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For volunteers at an eating disorder hotline, being replaced by an AI chatbot carried a painful cost
Early this spring, dozens of volunteers fielding requests from people struggling with eating disorders —…
The best AI opportunities, tech to improve 988, and an MRI fundraise
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A 988 operator, faced with a flood of calls, turns to AI to boost counselor skills
Over 1,000 times a day, distressed people call crisis support lines operated by Protocall Services….
Amid the AI gold rush, a new company forms to vet models and root out weaknesses
The market for artificial intelligence in health care is about as transparent as a brick…
Getting rid of bias in clinical calculators isn’t as simple as taking race out of the equation
Racial bias is everywhere in medicine, including the calculators doctors commonly use to predict a…
A chatbot that’s cautious about GPT, AI pronouncements, and a VC looks to Israel
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Hospitals are testing AI to communicate with patients. They still don’t know how to talk to them about it
Health systems across the country are exploring blending artificial intelligence into their communication with patients,…
Opinion: Why we created a chatbot to help people at risk for eating disorders
In May, a National Public Radio story asked, “Can a chatbot help people with eating…
How a now-retracted study got published in the first place, leading to a $3.8 million NIH grant
The scientific paper inspired international headlines with its bold claim that the combination of brain…
AI insight at BIO, Google and Mayo Clinic’s latest effort, & $13 million for health workforce tech
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STAT+: If AI invents a new medicine, who gets the patent?
Pharmaceutical and biotech companies are increasingly using artificial intelligence to discover and make drugs and…
STAT+: Google strikes deal with Mayo Clinic to comb patient records using generative AI
Google will embed its generative AI technology into computer systems at Mayo Clinic and other…
How a digital biomarker study failed, Apple’s health updates, and Carbon’s AI-driven EHR
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STAT+: Carbon Health is already using AI to write patient records
SAN FRANCISCO — Primary care tech startup Carbon Health is using artificial intelligence to listen…
Nuance’s mysterious pricing, speedier digital health evidence reviews, and new breakthrough devices
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Hospitals want to buy doctors’ happiness with Nuance’s AI scribe. What they’re paying varies
Microsoft-owned Nuance Communications sells its AI medical scribe platform to health care providers on a…
Omada tackles obesity drugs, Boston Scientific nixes deal, and Microsoft health exec on GPT
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Listen: ChatGPT in medicine, a boom in weight loss pills, & Sarepta at the FDA
Can AI diagnose a disease? Are Wegovy’s days numbered? And what makes AI hallucinate? We…
Opinion: Opportunistic CT: There’s gold in them there images
More than 80 million CT scans are performed each year in the U.S. alone. In…
Opinion: Will AI soon diagnose politicians’ mental health conditions from afar?
For psychiatrists, Donald Trump’s third run for the presidency means that we’ll once again face…
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A deep dive on generative AI in health care, Pear sold for parts, and progress on stretchable skin
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Opinion: Three ways to test medical AI for safety
This article is adapted from “The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond,” by Peter…
What does generative AI mean for health care? We asked the experts
Health care companies are racing to incorporate generative AI tools into their product pipelines and…
ChatGPT in medicine: STAT answers readers’ burning questions about AI
Artificial intelligence is often described as a black box: an unknowable, mysterious force that operates…
Making sense of AI research in medicine, in one slide
BOSTON — Scientific journals have become something of a Mad Libs game for GPT: Artificial…
Senators probing largest Medicare Advantage plans over how algorithms factor in care denials
Senators warned the country’s largest Medicare Advantage insurers at a hearing on Wednesday that they…
Opinion: Do chatbots have more time to be empathetic than physicians?
As an oncologist, Jennifer Lycette gets to know her patients particularly well. She’s doubtful that…
STAT+: AI leaders issue a plea to Congress: Regulate us, and quickly
During an extraordinary hearing Tuesday, members of a Senate subcommittee called for aggressive regulation of…
Telehealth company Included Health ventures into home care
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STAT+: General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz bet on large language models for health care
OAKLAND, Calif. — In a rare partnership, heavyweight tech venture firms General Catalyst and Andreessen…
A former health insurance executive turns to tech to make claims less of a nightmare
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Ask STAT: What do you want to know about ChatGPT in medicine?
From medical note-taking to analyzing X-rays and mammograms, new artificial intelligence tools are swiftly gaining…
STAT+: Google is training its generative AI to analyze medical images — and talk to doctors about them
Google’s generative AI system proved it can answer medical exam questions. But now the company…
Why health care needs to shift its thinking on AI, FDA’s health tech progress, & the latest on Carbon’s insurance dust-up
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STAT+: ‘Hard to catch up’: FDA commissioner on regulating new digital health tools
WASHINGTON — Digital health tools are developing faster than the Food and Drug Administration is able…
STAT+: 4 ways the health care system should shift its thinking on AI, according to experts
This week, the “Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton made news when he left Google and…
Vinod Khosla’s bold AI prediction, digital therapeutics trial updates, & a pharma AI fundraise
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