Telehealth grew wildly popular amid Covid-19. Now visits are dropping, forcing providers to recalibrate
A nationwide dropoff in telemedicine visits is forcing providers who raced to ramp up virtual…
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Opinion: Telehealth and the new choreography of ‘anywhere care’
Covid-19 has transformed the traditional doctor’s office visit as we know it, moving it away…
Opinion: Telehealth makes me aspire to be a different kind of physician: the kind I used to be
In my nearly quarter-century as a primary care pediatrician, I have always aspired to be…
Opinion: Quality issues may be the stumbling block in the race for contact tracing apps
The world is in a rush to find ways to fight Covid-19. This urgency makes…
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…
Opinion: My patients want the good old days of office visits. That’s not happening any time soon
I recently got a note from my secretary with this message from a patient: “Tell…
STAT Plus: Telemedicine is more convenient during Covid-19. It’s also a magnet for fraud and data theft
The increased convenience of telemedicine visits during the Covid-19 pandemic is spurring calls among patients…
Opinion: Learning from Taiwan about responding to Covid-19 — and using electronic health records
Covid-19 is not an evenly distributed pandemic. The United States is an outlier — and…
Opinion: What to expect from ‘Modernizing the FDA’s Data Strategy’ meeting
After being called off because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the FDA’s public meeting to discuss…
‘I cant imagine going back’: Medicare leader calls for expanded telehealth access after Covid-19
President Trump’s top Medicare official said Tuesday that expanded access to telemedicine should continue after…
At Mayo Clinic, sharing patient data with companies fuels AI innovation — and concerns about consent
ROCHESTER, Minn. — The patients of Mayo Clinic, whether they know it or not, have…
STAT Plus: Two years of halting progress and high turnover preceded Atul Gawande’s exit as Haven CEO
Atul Gawande’s announcement last week that he was stepping down as CEO of a high-profile…
Opinion: Lifesaving ventilators will sit unused without a national data-sharing effort
In Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s book “Poverty and Famines,” he argues that famines arise not…
STAT Plus: Major health-record company drops opposition to federal data-sharing rule
After months of fierce opposition, the electronic health record company Epic said Thursday it is…
Opinion: Telehealth overpromises during the Covid-19 pandemic
“No more germy waiting rooms.” That’s the pitch from telehealth companies as we face the…
Opinion: Telemedicine could blunt the cost of unnecessary ED visits for Covid-19
Conversations that dominated the health policy discourse only a few weeks ago have been suspended…
Trump lifts restrictions on telehealth services for seniors in hopes of limiting coronavirus spread
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday announced an unprecedented expansion of telehealth services for…
Changes in language on Facebook posts could signal need for hospitalization or emergency services
Can Facebook posts predict who might soon end up in the emergency department? They can,…
Opinion: Covid-19 will be the ultimate stress test for electronic health record systems
Just as the levees of New Orleans stood little chance against the wrath of Hurricane…
STAT Plus: Hospitals turn to big tech companies to store and analyze their data — leaving patients in the dark on privacy protections
The nation’s largest hospital systems are rapidly shifting sensitive health data into cloud storage platforms…
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STAT Plus: ‘Unleash that data’: Medicare chief promotes freer exchange of medical records, highlights efforts to protect privacy
After a year of intense lobbying, the Trump administration on Monday finalized federal rules to…
New Trump rules aim to fuel sharing of patient health records by smartphone
President Trump’s top health care aides on Monday said they will finalize federal rules requiring…
STAT Plus: What to expect at health tech’s big HIMSS conference — if it happens
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STAT Plus: Google’s labors to anonymize patient data suggest health systems face an uphill battle
Google has been exploring creative ways to protect sensitive health data, even as it has…
STAT Plus: Nuance begins selling AI system to automate physician note-taking during exams
The medical speech recognition company Nuance said Monday it will begin widely selling an artificial…
Opinion: Without oversight, electronic prescribing can harm patients
The use of electronic health record systems in doctors’ offices and hospitals has hit a…
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Health apps collecting sensitive data need more transparent terms of service, law experts argue
We’ve all been there. We’ve downloaded a new app or visited a website that requires…
STAT Plus: Prosecutors identified ‘Pharma Co. X’ as central to alleged opioid kickback scheme. Was it Purdue?
Federal prosecutors this week announced a $145 million settlement with an electronic health records company…
Opinion: Epic’s call to block a proposed data rule is wrong for many reasons
Epic, the nation’s largest electronic health record (EHR) company and a major beneficiary of a…
STAT Plus: These 10 startups acquired by Alphabet reveal a health care play centered on surveillance
At a gathering of the world’s business and political titans last week, Google CEO Sundar…
STAT Plus: Pfizer’s big data exec on pharma’s ‘arms race’ to partner with companies like Fitbit, 23AndMe, and others
Pharmaceutical giants are hunting for ways to tap into the data from your smart watch,…
STAT Plus: These 7 startups acquired by Apple are central to its health care strategy
Of all the tech companies aiming to shakeup health care, few have proclaimed as bold a…
Opinion: Machine learning for clinical decision-making: pay attention to what you don’t see
Even as machine learning and artificial intelligence are drawing substantial attention in health care, overzealousness…
Mayo Clinic taps Boston health tech leader to guide data strategy
On the heels of forming a new partnership with Google, Mayo Clinic announced it has…