STAT+: A Johns Hopkins startup aims to shake up AI in medicine with research-first approach
The formula for launching a machine learning company in health care looks something like this:…
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STAT+: 5 companies harnessing AI for drug discovery to watch
A decade ago, the business of drug discovery changed forever. Machine learning researchers were beginning…
Machine learning is booming in medicine. It’s also facing a credibility crisis
The mad dash accelerated as quickly as the pandemic. Researchers sprinted to see whether artificial…
Virtual event: How artificial intelligence is transforming health care
AI has enormous potential to improve the quality of health care, enable early diagnosis of…
STAT+: Google debuts an AI-powered app to analyze skin conditions
Google on Tuesday debuted an artificial intelligence-powered dermatology tool that analyzes a user’s photos, asks…
STAT+: Watch: Former Google CEO Schmidt opens up on health data privacy and the future of tech in medicine
In a wide-ranging and forthcoming interview, Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO who helped steer…
STAT+: Dyno raises $100 million to bring artificial intelligence to gene therapy
Dyno Therapeutics, a Cambridge biotech that uses artificial intelligence techniques to develop gene therapies, said…
The editor of digital health’s newest journal wants to democratize medicine with data
As an ICU physician, Leo Anthony Celi knows the immense power health data can hold….
STAT+: How a startup beat health care heavyweights to win Medicare’s AI contest
A $1 million government contest to predict health problems with artificial intelligence attracted the heavyweights…
Opinion: STAT+: Improving health care means improving data diversity. Federated learning can help
Many companies are developing innovative artificial intelligence solutions for health care. Too often, though, these…
AI caught a hidden problem in one patient’s heart. Can it work for others?
Somewhere in Peter Maercklein’s heartbeat was an abnormality no one could find. He survived a…
STAT+: More surveillance is coming to the operating room. Surgeons warn that’s risky
Much of what happens in the operating room is shrouded in mystery: The patient goes…
STAT+: In a sharp rebuke, health officials toss Trump-era proposal to exempt medical AI tools from review
In a searing rebuke, the Biden administration is formally withdrawing a last-minute proposal by the…
STAT+: Heralding a ‘societal transformation’ in health care, Mayo Clinic launches two companies to harness patient data
Mayo Clinic is forming a pair of companies to collect and analyze data from remote…
STAT+: Microsoft to buy Nuance Communications for $19.7 billion
Microsoft announced on Monday that it has agreed to acquire Burlington-based artificial intelligence and technology…
Opinion: STAT+: Unprecedented development of Covid-19 vaccines, treatments points to biopharma’s future
Business as usual has not been the mantra for companies developing Covid-19 vaccines and drugs….
STAT+: How artificial intelligence could make clinical trials smarter
Clinical trials have a dirty little secret. For all the careful work that goes into…
STAT+: 5 health care projects to watch at Google Cloud
If the pieces come together, Google will be as omnipresent in health care as it…
Opinion: Lessons from Nordic countries can accelerate the impact of AI in medicine
The Swedish-made Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut is one of the fastest and most beautiful cars ever…
To dampen background noise, hearing aid makers tap AI to amplify the right sounds
For many people with hearing loss, a normal conversation at a busy restaurant is the…
STAT+: Inside the fall of Watson Health: How IBM’s audacious plan to ‘change the face of health care’ with AI fell apart
It was a summer day in 2018, and the outlook could hardly have seemed more…
FDA authorizes new test, built with machine learning, to detect past Covid-19 infections
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday issued an emergency authorization for a new test…
Opinion: 3 ways the life sciences industries can eliminate bias in AI
Advances in the life sciences over the past decade have made it possible to manipulate…
STAT+: Scientists turn to machine learning to tackle one of gene therapy’s biggest challenges
As the world charges to vaccinate the population against the coronavirus, gene therapy developers are…
Could AI tools for breast cancer worsen disparities? Patchy public data in FDA filings fuel concern
The great hope of artificial intelligence in breast cancer is that it can distinguish harmless…
STAT+: STAT+ Conversations: A conversation on the FDA’s regulation of AI
Editors Note: A livestream of this conversation will be embedded below at 1:00p.m. ET. Every…
STAT+: Explore STAT’s database of FDA-cleared AI tools
The Food and Drug Administration has cleared scores of AI tools for use in the…
STAT+: As the FDA clears a flood of AI tools, missing data raise troubling questions on safety and fairness
Artificial intelligence is the fastest-growing frontier in medicine, but it is also among the most…
STAT+: Could training AI to learn from patients give doctors a better understanding of the causes of pain?
For years, AI researchers have focused their energy on developing algorithms capable of sharpening or…
STAT+: Amid a crush of Covid-19 research, scientists hone an AI tool to rapidly screen studies
Long before the pace of scientific publishing about Covid-19 broke land speed records, researchers were…
‘Slippery slope territory’: Health officials propose waiving regulatory review of medical AI tools
Days before leaving office, President Trump’s top health official is proposing to permanently exempt from…
STAT+: 4 steps for AI developers to build trust in their clinical tools
As health systems deploy new tools that predict patients’ risk of serious medical outcomes, many…
STAT+: Health tech experts explain why trust is crucial for clinical AI tools
It was a slight departure from the usual Consumer Electronics Show panel: Rather than touting…
STAT+: 3 key questions for the health tech industry in 2021
Fueled by a seemingly endless influx of cash, technology has influenced the practice of medicine…
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STAT+: ‘It’s really on them to learn’: How the rapid rollout of AI tools has fueled frustration among clinicians
Hospice nurse Deborah Carlson had been hesitant to embrace the artificial intelligence tool her health…
New cancer patients — especially Black people — are more susceptible to severe Covid-19 infections
Recently diagnosed cancer patients are more vulnerable to Covid-19 infection and face more severe illness…
AstraZeneca’s confusing vaccine data, biotech in 2021, and a guide to the ASH conference
Can too much Covid-19 vaccine be a bad thing? Is biotech in a bubble? And…
DeepMind’s protein-folding AI stuns with a solution to one of biology’s biggest challenges
At the start of a biennial contest to predict the structure of proteins, the expectations…
STAT+: A leading AI researcher calls for standards to ensure equity and fairness
A top researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Thursday said that artificial intelligence…
Health systems are using AI to predict severe Covid-19 cases. But limited data could produce unreliable results
As the United States braces for a bleak winter, hospital systems across the country are…
STAT Plus: Medical AI systems are disproportionately built with data from just three states, new research finds
Late last year, Stanford University researcher Amit Kaushal and a collaborator noticed something striking while…
When AI is the opposite of sinister: An MIT researcher is held up as model of how algorithms can benefit humanity
In June, when MIT artificial intelligence researcher Regina Barzilay went to Massachusetts General Hospital for…
AI could help rid health care of biases. It also might make them worse
Hospitals and health care companies are increasingly tapping experimental artificial intelligence tools to improve medical…
STAT Plus: Can AI improve cancer diagnosis in real patients? Google has enlisted the U.S. military to find out
Google has published plenty of papers demonstrating the potential of artificial intelligence to detect cancer…
STAT Health Tech: Google’s government contract to use AI in cancer diagnosis & new data on virtual diabetes coaching
A version of this digest first appeared in the weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter. To…
Virtual Event: AI: Cracking Covid-19’s Code
Editor’s note: A live stream of this virtual event will be embedded above at 1…
Opinion: A NASA mindset can help end the pandemic
Eight months into the global coronavirus pandemic, the life sciences industry is ramping up drug…
Opinion: We need to forecast epidemics like we forecast the weather
Disease-modeling communities around the world have been working tirelessly since January to predict how and…
As Covid-19 surges, researchers amass lung scans to build AI systems for patient care
At first, the images of lungs infected by the novel coronavirus were hard to come…
STAT Plus: Hospitals deploy AI to send patients home earlier — and keep them there
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has a problem familiar to many hospitals: Too many patients…