Opinion: Checklists to screen for patients’ social needs aren’t helping
I once saw a patient who came to the emergency room with injuries that were…
Category: Health Tech
Making sense of AI research in medicine, in one slide
BOSTON — Scientific journals have become something of a Mad Libs game for GPT: Artificial…
STAT+: Pear Therapeutics sold for parts at $6 million auction
Four different companies agreed to buy the assets of Pear Therapeutics at auction on Thursday…
Soft, stretchable electronic skin could reconstruct the sense of touch
The largest organ in the body is a wonder. Skin is soft, flexible, and sensitive…
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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+: Biotech and pharma execs wrestle with the ‘nightmare’ of developing digital biomarkers
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. — As post-lunch drowsiness settled on an auditorium full of leaders from the…
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…
STAT+: In Silicon Valley, a venture capital firm gives health tech startups a crash course in getting paid
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Over two blustery spring days earlier this month, 30 hopeful tech…
STAT+: Masimo’s CEO on battling Apple for the health wearable market
It’s been a chaotic three years for Masimo CEO Joe Kiani. First came the pandemic,…
An ultrasound device may unlock brain cancer treatment, early study shows
Brain cancer patients are left with few options when tumor cells spread, as most potent…
A former health insurance executive turns to tech to make claims less of a nightmare
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STAT+: How the FDA’s pandemic flexibilities boosted mental health apps — and what happens now
In April 2020, the Food and Drug Administration announced a pandemic enforcement policy allowing mental…
STAT+: Lawmakers press CMS to release new breakthrough device coverage rule
WASHINGTON — An array of lawmakers called for a simpler reimbursement pathway for breakthrough devices…
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…
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Vinod Khosla’s bold AI prediction, digital therapeutics trial updates, & a pharma AI fundraise
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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…
STAT+: In early glimpse at data, Akili’s video game shows positive results with adults with ADHD
Akili Interactive on Wednesday revealed earlier-than-expected top-line clinical trial results suggesting its video game treatment…
STAT+: The CEO of 23andMe says people are willing to share health data — if ‘treated like adults’
When it comes to personal health information, many people are actually willing to share their…
STAT+: Legal battle between Apple and Masimo over trade secrets ends in mistrial
A California jury was unable to reach a verdict in a messy, drawn-out legal battle…
STAT+: Carbon Health blasts a major insurer in rare public dispute over coverage
OAKLAND, Calif. — Primary care startup Carbon Health blasted health insurer Elevance on Monday for…
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…
STAT+: Once bullish on digital health, Orexo hits a wall on reimbursement
After several quarters of promising to deliver concrete progress on key digital therapeutics projects, Swedish…
GoodRx hires former tech exec as CEO, Amazon shutters Halo, and Teladoc beats expectations
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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…
STAT+: Facing headwinds, Teladoc tests its bet on whole-person care
Virtual care incumbent Teladoc beat Wall Street revenue estimates in the 2023’s first quarter —…
Opinion: STAT+: At-home clinical trials are the future
In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, much of the clinical trials industry came…
Telehealth companies that provide abortion pills grapple with regulatory uncertainty
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Dying patients protest looming telehealth crackdown
At age 93, struggling with the effects of a stroke, heart failure and recurrent cancer,…
Epic and Microsoft’s AI collaboration, Amazon and 3M, & Abbott’s CGM momentum
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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+: Amazon strikes partnership with 3M to advance conversational AI in medicine
Health care companies are joining forces with big tech players as they race to integrate…
STAT+: Define Ventures raises $460 million to fuel early-stage health tech startups
At a challenging time for digital health startups, Define Ventures announced on Tuesday it has…
Opinion: What the recent failures of Mindstrong and Pear tell us about the future of digital mental health
Over the past five years, digital mental health has risen from a niche topic to…
Free Uber rides helped patients keep their prenatal appointments. Now the company wants insurers to pay for it
For patients of the Community of Hope and Mary’s Center clinics in Washington, D.C., getting…
STAT+: Weight-loss startup Calibrate cuts 18% of workforce as obesity drugs spark growing competition
Calibrate, a telehealth company that prescribes obesity drugs and provides weight loss coaching, cut 18%…
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+: Pear Therapeutics dreamt of huge revenues and ‘commercial scale.’ It never came close
In January, Pear Therapeutics was quickly running out of money. The digital health startup embarked…
Opinion: Harvey Washington Wiley campaigned for food and drug safety in the early 20th century. Digital mental health needs its own Wiley moment
Prior to the early 20th century, America had no regulation of medications or food additives….
Wireless pacemakers may work for children with slow heart rhythms — but first, doctors need child-sized catheters
Pacemakers, relied upon by many patients with irregular heart rhythms, are not built for children….
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…
EPA proposes limits on carcinogenic gas used to sterilize medical devices
On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed new limits on the use of a carcinogenic…