Opinion: Public health needs to be transformed. Health IT can help
Covid-19 pummeled public health agencies and organizations. Future crises, whether from infectious disease, extreme weather,…
Category: Health IT
Opinion: STAT+: Clinical validation will save digital health’s reputation
The meteoric rise of telehealth and other types of virtual care during the Covid-19 pandemic…
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Opinion: Addressing social drivers of health is a big opportunity for tech entrepreneurs
Some of the best business opportunities in health care will involve developing technologies that analyze…
STAT+: One health system’s six-year odyssey to meet its patients’ needs outside the clinic
Manisha Parulekar knew her aging patients needed extra support outside the walls of her clinic….
Opinion: Real-world evidence must not become evidence for abortion-related prosecution
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn federal protection for abortion changed in an instant how…
Opinion: Digital back doors can lead down the path to health inequity
For years, racism mandated that Black people and other people of color in the United…
Opinion: If there is a digital health bubble, does it really matter for entrepreneurs?
For the better part of the last two-plus years, my colleagues and I at 7wireVentures…
Opinion: Digital health is overlooking its biggest opportunity for disruption
For years, tech behemoths and digital health innovators have attempted to “reinvent” health care, but…
Opinion: What health care must learn from meteorology about the importance of R2O
Twenty years ago, a board of atmospheric experts published a report that revolutionized the meteorology…
Opinion: Digital health: the latest iteration of medicine’s knowledge problem
When I did my residency in internal medicine and primary care a few years ago,…
Opinion: Health-related artificial intelligence needs rigorous evaluation and guardrails
Algorithms can augment human decision-making by integrating and analyzing more data, and more kinds of…
STAT+: Microsoft closes $16B acquisition of Nuance, launching a bold experiment in health AI
AI’s next big health care experiment can now begin. Microsoft closed on a $16 billion…
Opinion: Equitable access to digital health innovations requires a systems thinking approach
Over the last decade, the dawn of digital health has accelerated biopharmaceutical innovation, the pace…
Opinion: Managing mental health tech’s blitzscaling blind spots
Pro basketball player Giannis Antetokounmpo told GQ magazine last month that he and most of…
Opinion: Gatekeepers need to tame ‘Wild West’ of mental health and other digital health therapeutics
From individuals to employers, there’s growing interest in using digital services to help people work…
Opinion: It’s time to open up health care’s secret analytics
Each year as older adults begin choosing between traditional fee-for-service Medicare and Medicare Advantage, they…
Opinion: Texting saved lives during Covid. What does that mean for health care’s future?
Despite the ongoing push to increase the number of vaccinated people in the U.S., about…
Opinion: It’s time for individuals — not doctors or companies — to own their health data
Health data should be like a mountain stream, flowing in a single direction with a…
Opinion: Broadband access: Health care’s newest challenge
The past two years have underscored the long-standing but always disturbing reality that millions of…
STAT+: The new vision for the now-merged Doctor on Demand and Grand Rounds begins to take shape
In May, two privately held health tech startups — Doctor on Demand and Grand Rounds…
STAT+: ‘My jaw dropped’: Basic security flaws in third-party apps leave millions of patient records at risk
In the last year, cyberattacks on hospitals have surged, putting a spotlight on the need…
STAT+: STAT+ Conversation: Can tech improve health care’s value proposition?
Editor’s note: A livestream of the conversation will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET….
Opinion: STAT+: Rewriting the playbook for digital therapeutics
The acceleration of investment in digital health and adoption of health-related apps triggered by the…
Opinion: STAT+: Digital clinical trials can personalize patient engagement, accelerate therapy development
Biopharmaceutical companies were conducting more than 9,000 clinical trials in the U.S. in March 2020…
Feinberg to leave Google Health for Cerner
David Feinberg has left his post as the leader of Google Health for health care…
STAT+: If Apple takes aim at fall-prevention, will the rest of the health system hear it?
Using troves of data from iPhone users, Apple thinks it’s cracked an elusive problem: Identifying…
STAT+: The most intriguing health tech deals of the year (so far)
In the world of digital health, money is flying around like never before. All that…
STAT+: How one startup is turning unwieldy health records into a patient-friendly platform
Once seen as the place technological innovation went to die, health records are seeing a…
Opinion: Health depends on the strength of the doctor/technology relationship
For the past few decades, technology has been gradually revolutionizing health care for patients. It…
Opinion: STAT+: How the FDA’s ‘master plan’ will affect NIH funding for digital medicine projects
The term B.C. took on a new meaning — Before Covid — last year when…
Opinion: Low-tech but high-value: Don’t stop reimbursing phone-only telehealth visits
At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and…
Opinion: It’s time to get health care value assessment right
Trying to gauge the value of new drugs and devices is becoming increasingly important in…
Opinion: Adding social determinants gives public health maps a sense of place and time
Before becoming a public health researcher, I trained as a geologist. That may seem like…
Facing data gaps on trans populations, researchers turn to health records for answers
Electronic health records are enabling a new generation of health care researchers to study thousands…
STAT+: Amy Abernethy, deputy commissioner who aimed to amp up FDA’s tech knowhow, to leave post
Amy Abernethy, the number two official at the Food and Drug Administration, plans to depart…
Opinion: Why drug prescriptions should include diagnoses
The Covid-19 pandemic is teaching us many tragic lessons along with some instructive ones, like…
Opinion: The pandemic slingshot: propelling from national crisis to a resilient health care system
A year into the Covid-19 pandemic and the U.S. is still battling this crisis. As…
STAT+: Federal watchdog raises concerns about increasing telehealth fraud during pandemic
WASHINGTON — A federal government watchdog is sounding the alarm that Americans’ growing enthusiasm for…
STAT+: Atul Gawande says Haven experience is helping shape his Covid-19 response work
The storied health tech startup Haven may have shuttered, but its famous former CEO, Atul…
Opinion: Telehealth’s critics have it right: The industry must evolve
For many people, January is a time for new beginnings. But for many telehealth patients,…
Opinion: It’s time to be more open-minded to newcomers moving into health, even from tech
Silicon Valley types like to talk about disrupting things. But health care doesn’t want to…
Opinion: Startups should focus on innovations that truly improve mental health
An unexpected side effect of the tragedy of the Covid-19 pandemic is unprecedented opportunity for…
Opinion: Using technology to help heal health care disparities
For the first time in its 54-year history, CES (formerly known as the Consumer Electronics…
Opinion: States and hospitals: overhaul your vaccine plans with data before it’s too late
The first phase of the vaccine rollout, which is supposed to deliver shots to roughly…
Opinion: Stopping the syndemic: Covid-19 plus other debilitating and deadly diseases
With Covid-19 vaccines beginning to be distributed in the United States and other countries, and…
Opinion: The mental health dilemma: If technology is the problem, can it also be the solution?
The must-see Netflix documentary, “The Social Dilemma,” released early this year, draws attention to the…
Opinion: Interoperability: an untapped tool in America’s fight against Covid-19
As the coronavirus pandemic collides with flu season, barriers to accessing medical information could undermine…
Opinion: Online privacy loss: another Covid-19 aftershock
Since the coronavirus pandemic first emerged in the United States, millions of Americans have gone…
Opinion: America’s mental health care system fell short for my brother. Access to that care should be a legal right for all
The year 2020 has put an exclamation point on the need for robust mental health…
Doctors are increasingly using remote monitoring technology, raising questions about inclusivity and usability
Remote monitoring technologies let doctors keep tabs on how you’re doing, even when you’re nowhere…