Biotech employees cash in health care’s largest salaries, while people working at providers sit near the bottom
It pays to be in the lab. It pays way less to be at the…
Category: Health Tech
Health care’s high rollers: As the pandemic raged, CEOs’ earnings surged
Health care’s top executives sat comfortably atop their perch during the second year of the…
Google’s latest cloud deal, the FTC’s privacy fight, and the future of brain-computer interfaces
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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….
Abortion providers embrace virtual assistants and automation to prepare for new flood of patients
As abortion clinics shutter across the country, providers in states where abortion is still legal…
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STAT+: Health tech funding is down. Here’s what investors make of the market
In 2021, funding for health technology companies went on a tear and by July, a…
Former Theranos exec Ramesh Balwani convicted of fraud
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A jury on Thursday convicted former Theranos executive Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani…
Remote technology could nudge patients to join cancer clinical trials
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STAT+: Under new ownership, IBM Watson Health’s core assets get a rebranding
The IBM Watson Health brand comes with baggage. But for its new owners, the core…
STAT+: The Q3 health tech tracker: 11 key industry events and debates to watch
It’s been a humbling first half of the year for health tech companies. Previously abundant…
Supreme Court’s decision on abortion sparks health tech’s Cambridge Analytica moment
In 2018, the tech industry found itself in a harsh spotlight amid a scandal involving…
Baking trust into tech, Cerebral’s prescribing, & the evolution of post-Roe privacy
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‘It’s not going to work’: Keeping race out of machine learning isn’t enough to avoid bias
As more machine learning tools reach patients, developers are starting to get smart about the…
STAT+: Cognito Therapeutics raises $50 million for Alzheimer’s treatment tech
Cognito Therapeutics has raised $50 million in funding as it seeks to advance treatments for…
STAT+: Cue Health rode Covid-19 to an NBA deal and a $3 billion valuation. Now it faces layoffs and a rocky future
It didn’t have the brand recognition of Abbott, or the billions of the medical technology…
How pregnancy could prove the potential of smartwatches
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Wearables are collecting a flood of data. An ambitious new study of pregnancy aims to prove that’s valuable for health
When Stephen Friend left Apple in 2017 after a stint helping to jumpstart its health…
The pitfalls of pandemic apps, Epic’s data network, & Medicare’s race data problem
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STAT+: Smartphone apps promised to help combat the pandemic. How well did they work?
When the pandemic hit, tech giants like Apple and Google as well as upstart technology…
Hospital data is funneled to Facebook, Verily’s business model, and virtual reality surgery
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STAT+: Facebook is receiving sensitive medical information from hospital websites
A tracking tool installed on many hospitals’ websites has been collecting patients’ sensitive health information…
STAT+: Verily co-founder lays out vision for how real-world data can transform health care
SAN DIEGO — The real world’s a messy place, but there’s a lot you can…
Health tech companies are facing a wave of layoffs
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Rune Labs’ Apple Watch tracking for Parkinson’s earns FDA greenlight
Software that enables Apple Watch-based tracking of Parkinson’s disease symptoms has received clearance from the…
STAT+: With Cerner deal closed, Oracle chair pitches sweeping vision for health records and artificial intelligence
Oracle chairman and chief technology officer Larry Ellison vowed to prioritize the cloud giant’s health…
Apple unveils a medication-tracking app and new heart health features for smartwatches
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STAT+: The graveyard of health tech pilots: why some experiments flourish and others fizzle
Pilot programs are health tech’s proving ground: they let health systems test-drive new devices and…
STAT+: With new research, health tech companies try to make a case for virtual diabetes care
For all the time and money health tech companies have poured into developing virtual care…
Early pregnancy detection, wearables for Parkinson’s, and health in the cloud
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STAT+: Carbon Health, citing concerns about path to profitability, lays off 250 employees
Carbon Health, which runs dozens of brick-and-mortar clinics and a virtual care business, laid off…
Can wearables turn temperature into a pregnancy test?
Your smartwatch can ping you about an irregular heartbeat. Your phone can assess your fall…
STAT+: Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz on lessons learned, venture capital, and shutting down his own business
SAN FRANCISCO — During the worst moments at Theranos, Tyler Shultz ran. To burn off…
No low-hanging fruit: Experts pitch their four big ideas for changing health care
If you could pitch any idea to transform health care, what would you pitch? Four…
STAT+: ‘We have to test’: A Google AI leader on why it’s imperative to move slow in health tech
Google has big ideas for machine learning in medicine. Greg Corrado, who helps lead health…
‘Information is a determinant of health’: Google executive on monkeypox and other challenges
Karen DeSalvo’s latest challenge came in the nanometer-sized envelope of a virus: monkeypox. Since becoming…
Top privacy researchers urge the health care industry to safeguard patient data
Patient data might be the biggest business you’ve never heard of. As a STAT investigation…
Amazon accessibility researcher says inclusion of people with disabilities is ‘lacking’ in health tech
SAN FRANCISCO — Something as simple as getting a Covid-19 test can be complicated for…
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Are smartphones making us miserable? A Google study aims to find out
Google is teaming up with researchers to investigate how the mobile devices glued to our…
STAT+: How a complex web of businesses turned private health records from GE into a lucrative portrait of patients
It was supposed to be a routine client meeting. Instead, one of GE Healthcare’s largest…
STAT+: ‘No real clear path’: Insurance coverage for cutting-edge diagnostics remains a major challenge for personalized medicine
DANA POINT, Calif. — Even the best treatment for a disease is no help if…
STAT+: Google taps FDA’s former digital health chief for global strategy role
Google has hired the former head of digital health at the U.S. Food and Drug…
STAT+: 3 burning questions about the future of prescribing drugs online
Online companies prescribing and dispensing medications like Adderall are garnering increasing scrutiny from clinicians and…
Can Google’s Google Pixel Watch compete with Apple on health?
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STAT+: The FDA eased rules for mental health apps during the pandemic. Now companies are bracing for it to tighten the reins
In April 2020, as the horrors of the pandemic were beginning to unspool, the Food…
STAT+: Researchers look to deliver ‘unbiased judgment of AI bias’ in medicine
After an explosion of excitement in the potential for machine learning in medicine, cracks in…
Telehealth aims to crack open Paxlovid’s prescription bottleneck
After months of shortages, pharmacies across the United States are being stocked with drugs to…
STAT+: Cerebral, under intense scrutiny, is ‘actively adjusting’ strategy on ADHD ads
Amid intense scrutiny of its prescribing practices, the online mental health company Cerebral launched a…
New funding for Curebase and Sidekick Health, Talkspace earnings, and Cerebral setbacks
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Telemedicine abortion providers prepare for surges in states where the procedure will remain legal
Federal protections around abortion will leap back half a century if the Supreme Court repeals…
A clash over online Adderall prescriptions is raising new questions about telehealth
Online pharmacy startups have pledged to make it faster and easier than ever to get…