Opinion: Why a chatbot might seem more empathetic than a human physician
An April 28 article in JAMA Internal Medicine, “Comparing Physician and Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Responses…
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STAT+: Vinod Khosla predicts AI doctors could be here sooner than you think
Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla is famous for predictions that have helped usher in the…
In a small new study, scientists working on an AI ‘brain decoder’ inch closer than ever to reading minds
Alexander Huth settled into an MRI machine in the Austin, Texas, neuroscience research building where…
A research team airs the messy truth about AI in medicine — and gives hospitals a guide to fix it
In public, hospitals rave about artificial intelligence. They trumpet the technology in press releases, plaster…
Telehealth companies that provide abortion pills grapple with regulatory uncertainty
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Epic and Microsoft’s AI collaboration, Amazon and 3M, & Abbott’s CGM momentum
You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is…
STAT+: The high hopes — and high stakes — behind Microsoft and Epic’s plan to use AI to answer patient questions
Generative artificial intelligence tools have triggered a flood of speculation about the technology’s ability to…
Opinion: Generative AI’s three possibly insurmountable challenges for health care
Talk about AI in medicine often focuses on the most exiting possible innovations like precision…
STAT+: Flawed AI algorithms can cause harm in medicine. A research team has a plan to root out bias and improve accuracy
There are a lot of ways that artificial intelligence can go awry in health and…
STAT+: Google will let health care customers test its generative AI model, ramping up rivalry with GPT-4
Accelerating medicine’s AI race, Google is releasing a version of its generative language model to…
STAT+: Oracle’s Cerner Enviza launches a new effort to use AI to study asthma drug safety
Cerner Enviza is partnering with health care AI company John Snow Labs to develop artificial…
STAT+: 5 tech startups trying to solve health care’s staffing crisis to watch
Three years after the pandemic upended the health care workforce, hospital staffing is still a…
STAT+: A new AI tool aims to help surgeons quickly analyze brain tumor mutations during surgery
When it comes to treating brain tumors, sometimes less is more in the operating room….
Telehealth’s new weight loss drug pitch, a crackdown on AI to deny care, and Boston Scientific enters obesity treatment area
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STAT+: The Q2 health tech tracker: 13 key industry events and milestones to watch
Health tech companies are still plagued by a sluggish funding environment and a wobbling economy…
Why the early tests of ChatGPT in medicine miss the mark
ChatGPT has rocketed into health care like a medical prodigy. The artificial intelligence tool correctly…
STAT+: FDA proposes a new plan to streamline updates to medical devices that use AI
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday released a new plan allowing developers of medical…
STAT+: As AI promises to revolutionize medical note-taking, concerns mount about accuracy and harm
In the doctor’s offices of the future, artificial intelligence will be a fly on the…
STAT+: ‘We’re getting much more aggressive’: Microsoft’s Nuance adds GPT-4 AI to its medical note-taking tool
An AI medical scribe platform is the latest entrant into the AI arms race. On…
STAT+: To prevent emergency C-sections, researchers turn to AI to predict the course of childbirth
After more than a decade as an OB-GYN, Darine El-Chaâr still finds late-stage emergency C-sections…
Listen: SVB’s long biotech shadow, pushy AI algorithms, & Icahn v. Illumina
Is AI dictating patient care? What happens when your bank falls apart? And can Illumina…
Opinion: AI chatbots can improve health — but only with help from humans
Chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT can hold fun conversations across many topics. But when it comes…
STAT+: In Minnesota, researchers explore how to audit health AI models on a patient level
As hospitals and companies continue to leverage artificial intelligence in medicine, researchers are also grappling…
STAT+: Buyer’s remorse: How a Medicare Advantage business is strangling one of its first funders
When NaviHealth began building a business around using algorithms to scrutinize the care of older…
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Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care for seniors in need
An algorithm, not a doctor, predicted a rapid recovery for Frances Walter, an 85-year-old Wisconsin…
Opinion: Promises — and pitfalls — of ChatGPT-assisted medicine
Not long after the artificial intelligence company OpenAI released its ChatGPT chatbot, the application went…
STAT+: FDA names former Oracle executive as new digital health leader
The Food and Drug Administration has installed Troy Tazbaz, most recently a senior vice president…
ChatGPT in health care, pharma’s latest digital health deal, and long-awaited diabetes tech
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STAT+: As more never-smokers develop lung cancer, researchers test an AI model to predict patient risk
Massachusetts General Hospital is launching a prospective trial of an artificial intelligence tool designed to…
With Gates Foundation backing, a health tech company aims to speed diagnosis of some neglected tropical diseases
As it looks to curb the spread of infectious diseases, the Gates Foundation is lending…
Opinion: STAT+: 4 concrete steps to realize the AI Bill of Rights for clinical decision support software
The Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights the White House recently published didn’t come…
Medical schools are missing the mark on artificial intelligence
Ready or not, health care is undergoing a massive transformation driven by artificial intelligence. But…
Opinion: Four types of bias in medical AI are running under the FDA’s radar
Although artificial intelligence is entering health care with great promise, clinical AI tools are prone…
Opinion: Artificial intelligence: crossing the border between health care and tech
There’s been significant investment in companies creating artificial intelligence (AI) applications for health and health…
A new coalition aims to close AI’s credibility gap in medicine with testing and oversight
To read the medical literature, you might think AI is taking over medicine. It can…
An AI model to predict kidney damage, trained on data from veterans, works less well in women
The study was a page-turner: Researchers at Google showed that an artificial intelligence system could…
STAT+: Inside one startup’s quest to build proteins from scratch using artificial intelligence
A Somerville startup and an academic lab in Seattle say they have developed a way…
Opinion: STAT+: HHS’s proposed rule prohibiting discrimination via algorithm needs strengthening
The Department of Health and Human Services has proposed a rule to prohibit clinical algorithms…
STAT+: Epic’s overhaul of a flawed algorithm shows why AI oversight is a life-or-death issue
Epic, the nation’s dominant seller of electronic health records, was bracing for a catastrophe. It…
STAT+: As AI grows in medical image analysis, concern about building trust with doctors grows too
In 2018, the researcher Pranav Rajpurkar was working on an algorithm that could find blood…
STAT+: Alphabet’s AI predicted the structure of 200 million proteins. Can it really speed up drug discovery?
Every two years since 1994, scientists have come together for an experiment — better described…
To prevent unnecessary biopsies, scientists train an AI model to predict breast cancer risk from MRI scans
A biopsy that turns out to have benign results can be a relief. But in…
STAT+: Epic overhauls popular sepsis algorithm criticized for faulty alarms
Epic Systems has revamped its widely criticized sepsis prediction model in a bid to improve…
In new guidance, FDA says AI tools to warn of sepsis should be regulated as devices
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday published a list of artificial intelligence tools…
STAT+: Zuckerberg, Chan want new Harvard institute to answer questions about the brain and AI
For the first time since gifting Harvard University $500 million to launch a new research institute,…
STAT+: Minimal compliance, or meaningful change? Epic faces a crossroads as new rules put pressure on health data sharing
In the business of selling record-keeping software to hospitals, Epic Systems is breaking away from…
Opinion: 6 tactics to make artificial intelligence work on the frontlines
Artificial intelligence is a transformative tool in the workplace — except when it isn’t. For…
Google debuts a new AI tool in the global fight against tuberculosis
Tuberculosis kills 1.4 million people every year, primarily in places where poverty and deprivation conspire…
In early research, an AI model detects signs of Parkinson’s using breathing patterns
James Parkinson first flagged a link between changes in breathing patterns and the debilitating disease…
STAT+: ‘How can you not be excited?’: AI experts share enthusiasm about its future in health care
While the adoption of artificial intelligence in health care has been slow and bumpy at…