Mental health giants Headspace and Ginger to merge into $3 billion company
Headspace and Ginger, two of the most prominent companies in the increasingly competitive mental health…
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A Theranos redux & and vaccine outreach via EHRs
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STAT+: Will breaking apart Google’s health bets give them a better shot at success?
Google is once again overhauling its ambitious health efforts. But this time around, some experts…
To boost Covid-19 vaccine uptake, one health system hunts for patients who fell through the cracks
As public health leaders double down on their efforts to get shots to the 30%…
STAT+: Elizabeth Holmes will be on trial. But the evidence will expose a bigger collision between tech culture and health care
When the long-awaited trial of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Homes opens at the end of…
Feinberg to leave Google Health for Cerner
David Feinberg has left his post as the leader of Google Health for health care…
A unicorn in women’s health & machine learning skepticism
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STAT+: Verily makes its first major acquisition as it looks to transform clinical trials
On the heels of a series of prominent recent hires, Verily announced plans on Tuesday…
STAT+: STAT+ Conversation: Recapping HIMSS21 and looking ahead
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STAT+: With $110 million and a boost from Oprah, maternal health startup Maven hits $1 billion valuation
On Tuesday, maternal and family virtual care platform Maven raised $110 million in late-stage financing…
At a leading health tech conference, enthusiasm for machine learning mixes with calls for greater scrutiny
Any digital health conference features its share of machine learning evangelism. Technology executives give fervent…
Facebook and YouTube execs say removing Covid-19 misinformation isn’t enough
New falsehoods have emerged to match every stage of pandemic response. Unquestionably, that misinformation has…
Amazon and Google reawaken sleep tracking & WHO calls for a global misinfo plan
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Opinion: Algorithmic bias is pervasive in health care. It needn’t be
The World Health Organization issued its first global report on artificial intelligence in late June,…
A WHO official on why we need a global tech strategy to fight vaccine misinformation
The creation of effective vaccines has offered a lifeline in the worst pandemic in world…
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STAT+: As tech giants double down on sleep tracking, providers want more proof it’s useful
Wearable sleep tracking has been an alluring target for tech giants for nearly a decade….
STAT+: ‘We don’t unlearn’: What the pandemic has taught regulators about real-world data
During the pandemic, regulatory agencies deployed emergency measures left and right to speed care to…
A ‘frothy’ digital health market, Verily partners with Colgate, & a HIMSS dispatch
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STAT+: In the feeding frenzy of health tech dealmaking, the little fish wield power
The fickle market only lets executives at health care startups control so much, but for…
As HIMSS approaches, plans for health tech’s biggest gathering are clashing with a need for caution
It was supposed to be a coming out party for the digital health industry after…
Radiology software company Sirona Medical emerges from stealth mode
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With a nudge from AI, ketamine emerges as a potential rare disease treatment
In the seven difficult years since their son Mateo was diagnosed with a rare disease,…
Artificial pancreases were a breakthrough for type 1 diabetes. The research in type 2 is just beginning
For the first time, a team of researchers has published research into how a closed-loop…
A heart attack app, misinfo crackdowns, and MRI-safe headphones
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With Apple’s backing, can an app help heart attack patients navigate recovery?
In July 2016, two cardiologists and a handful of computer scientists and developers rolled up…
‘A mini-engineering feat’: High-tech headphones drown out the scary noises inside an MRI
For many people, entering the confinement of an MRI machine can be harrowing: Scans can…
With Amwell’s deal, the acquisition race heats up in telehealth
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STAT+: Deep Genomics raises $180 million to automate drug discovery
Brendan Frey, the founder and chief executive of Deep Genomics, thinks the wrong people are…
Investigating Epic’s AI, an unhealthy digital divide, & a new day for interoperability
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STAT+: STAT+ Conversations: A conversation on scrutiny facing Epic’s health care algorithms
Editor’s note: A livestream of the conversation will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET….
Researchers analyzed 4,063 papers on tools to help guide care. Only 12 were replications
Clinical decision support is one of digital health’s great promises. Faced with a surplus of…
STAT+: Epic’s AI algorithms, shielded from scrutiny by a corporate firewall, are delivering inaccurate information on seriously ill patients
Several artificial intelligence algorithms developed by Epic Systems, the nation’s largest electronic health record vendor,…
Alphabet firm DeepMind releases massive database of 3D protein structures
With the advent of cheap genetic sequencing, the world of biology has been flooded with…
STAT+: Happify to release prescription app to treat depression under loosened FDA rules
Leveraging Food and Drug Administration regulations loosened during the pandemic, Happify Health, which is best…
STAT+: Therapy chatbot startup Woebot raises $90 million
Woebot announced Wednesday that it raised a $90 million Series B investment to further the…
Amazon’s health cloud, Pichai on AI, and digital Alzheimer’s screens
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STAT+: DeepMind and and a rival release dueling code for protein-folding AI
Computational biologists have been on tenterhooks for the past seven months, ever since DeepMind took…
A slice of Apple’s health research, Teladoc for Teams, & combating health misinfo
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STAT+: Apple provides narrow glimpse at research behind new walking steadiness feature
Apple is gearing up to release a new metric called Walking Steadiness aimed at preventing…
Researchers use machine learning to translate brain signals from a paralyzed patient into text
Assistive technologies such as handheld tablets and eye-tracking devices are increasingly helping give voice to…
Rest stop telehealth, a data aggregator gets buy-in, & the EHR time drain
Truveta scores $95 million, adds hospital partners Truveta, a company formed to aggregate patient data…
STAT+: Patient data company Truveta raises $95 million, secures new hospital partners
A company formed to aggregate and sell de-identified data on millions of American patients has…
‘The party is winding down’: States and insurers resurrect barriers to telehealth, putting strain on patients
Telemedicine is here to stay. But its free-for-all era may be coming to an end….
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:…
STAT+: Sonde’s voice health tracking comes to Qualcomm’s smartphone chips
Vocal biomarker startup Sonde has been quietly plotting a way to make tracking respiratory and…
How Doximity parlayed its popularity with doctors into a blockbuster IPO
Doximity exploded onto the public markets last month with an IPO that saw share values…
Apple’s fall risk feature, 2021 in deals, & the fax facts
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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+: Inside the ‘land grab’ for virtual-first care: how an unprecedented flurry of deals is shaping the new digital health landscape
Teladoc’s blockbuster merger with Livongo in 2020 would’ve been unthinkable just a few years ago….