Wastewater surveillance group funded by Google founder, Bloomberg sheds dozens of testing sites
WastewaterSCAN, one of the United States’ largest private entities that provide real-time data on pathogens…
Category: Health Tech
Microsoft global outage forces health systems to cancel appointments, delay procedures
On Thursday, a widespread outage to Microsoft systems took down computers in health systems around…
STAT+: Broad Institute, facing end of Microsoft cloud contract, shuffles data science leadership
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is perhaps best known for the trailblazing work…
STAT+: Startup Q Bio raises $27 million to build its own full-body scanner
A prevention-focused co-founded by the head of a Stanford research lab is making an expensive…
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STAT+: Data privacy startup raises $30 million, to ease health care providers’ regulatory burden
Federal guidance restricting hospital websites’ use of third-party trackers along with the proliferation of direct-to-consumer…
STAT+: Why clinical trials for digital therapeutics are getting more rigorous
Faced with widespread skepticism about the value of digital therapies, Swing Therapeutics in early 2022…
STAT+: UnitedHealth CEO concedes company was ‘over-optimistic’ about Change cyberattack recovery
UnitedHealth Group’s CEO said Tuesday that his team was “over-optimistic” about the pace at which…
STAT+: A cancer care startup is making a new bet with payers and providers: only pay if it works
A cancer care navigation startup has raised $95 million from prominent tech investors to help…
STAT+: Medicare proposes to cover some digital therapies in a breakthrough for health tech firms
In what could prove to be a lifeline for a new crop of health tech…
STAT+: AI leads the way as health tech funding inches toward a post-pandemic stability
Funding for health tech startups in the first half of 2024 remained far below the…
STAT+: Top Biden administration officials withdraw from Coalition for Health AI
Top Biden administration officials have withdrawn from an industry body formed to set safety standards…
STAT+: Regulating artificial intelligence doesn’t have to be complicated, some experts say
Artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize how drugs are discovered and change how hospitals…
STAT+: This AI chat bot was trained on drag queens, and she wants to help protect your sexual health
A few months ago, a young Black gay patient in a southern state tapped out…
STAT+: Novel amputation procedure makes walking with a prosthetic leg feel more seamless
A novel surgical technique could dramatically improve walking for people with below-the-knee amputations and help…
Blind employee takes VA to court saying new EHR from Oracle is inaccessible
A blind employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs is suing the federal agency on…
Hospital at home program is waiting on Congress, but this New Jersey hospital isn’t
You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology…
STAT+: Are expensive whole-body MRI scans medically useful? A new clinical trial aims to find out
A startup selling elective whole-body scans for upward of $1,000 is launching a 10-year, 100,000…
STAT+: Q&A: Defining responsible AI in health care, with CHAI CEO Brian Anderson
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Artificial intelligence is increasingly infused into many aspects of health care,…
Opinion: AI and rural health care: A paradigm shift in America’s heartland
The use of artificial intelligence is happening in “unlikely places.” So says a recent working…
STAT+: Q&A: How Flagship’s Cellarity is using AI to understand cell disease biology before treating it
Flagship Pioneering launched Cellarity in December 2019. The startup says it’s using artificial intelligence and…
Stop blindly allowing MA plans to use AI to deny care, lawmakers urge Biden administration
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging the Biden administration to prohibit Medicare Advantage insurers…
STAT+: AliveCor gets FDA nod for portable 12-lead, AI-powered ECG device
AliveCor has spent years battling with Apple over the market for consumer heart monitoring technology….
STAT+: Experts split on whether Eli Lilly’s Zepbound will hamper CPAP sales
Continuous positive airway pressure “is here to stay,” sleep medicine doctor Atul Malhotra declared in…
STAT+: HHS finalizes penalties for providers resorting to ‘information blocking’
The federal government has cemented a key part of its strategy for making patients’ medical…
STAT+: Oral ketamine tablets effective for treating depression, new study finds
The results of a randomized controlled trial published Monday showed oral ketamine tablets were safe…
STAT+: Ateev Mehrotra, the researcher the telehealth lobby loves to hate, isn’t backing down
WASHINGTON — He hardly seems the part of the telehealth industry’s public enemy No. 1….
STAT+: How the medical device tracking director at Kaiser Permanente weeds out risky devices
When a new medical device hits the market, there’s typically still some uncertainty about whether…
STAT+: Federal judge rules in favor of hospital lobby in privacy lawsuit
A federal judge has sided with a powerful hospital lobby in a legal battle with…
Change Healthcare to begin notifying patients that cyberattack compromised their private info
Change Healthcare is beginning the process of notifying a “substantial proportion” of Americans that their…
STAT+: Bold’s CEO on fall prevention, ageism in health care, and ‘movement is medicine’
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – When Amanda Rees was in her twenties she moved in with…
STAT+: Republican lawmakers criticize FDA’s partnership with CHAI on regulating AI in medicine
Republican lawmakers are sharply criticizing the Food and Drug Administration’s relationship with a nonprofit group…
STAT+: Boston Scientific to buy vascular device maker for $1.16 billion
Boston Scientific said on Tuesday it will buy Silk Road Medical, a medical device company…
STAT+: Freespira bets on slow and steady, amid spectacular digital health collapses
Many digital health companies have crashed and burned after promising investors speedy adoption and huge…
STAT+: To feed an AI that designs new enzymes, Basecamp hunts rare proteins at the world’s end
Not many AI companies have expeditions to the rainforest on the calendar, or need scientists…
STAT+: Former medical device CEO who sold fake plastic parts sentenced to 6 years in prison
The former CEO of Stimwave, a company that sold pain-relief devices with dummy pieces of…
STAT+: Telehealth startup Done’s top leadership arrested under fraud charges
The CEO and clinical president of a closely watched telehealth startup prescribing ADHD-medication Adderall online…
STAT+: New AI for biopsies can analyze microscopic images, talk to pathologists about your tumor
To non-pathologists, the histology slide looked, as all histology slides do, a sea of mottled…
STAT+: Why Google and Microsoft can’t defuse U.S. health care’s ticking cybersecurity problem
Facing a worsening cybersecurity crisis in health care, the Biden administration has followed a familiar…
STAT+: Google’s Verily to offer GLP-1 drugs through Lightpath, its retooled chronic care app
For the second time in as many years, Google’s health tech spinout Verily is pivoting….
STAT+: Tweezers? Wrenches? Researchers plot prosthetics’ future with tools, not hands
Nearly half of people with upper-limb prosthetics abandon them. They’re often uncomfortable, dysfunctional or just…
STAT+: Medical device trials still don’t enroll enough women, study finds
Women have always been underrepresented in medical research. A new study reveals that not much…
STAT+: Teladoc names insurance, finance exec as its new CEO
Virtual care company Teladoc has a new chief executive officer following the abrupt departure of…
STAT+: Watch: How Harvard researchers boosted an ALS patient’s independence with a box and a balloon
John Goodson practiced medicine for almost 50 years at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. As…
Do digital physical therapy solutions work? New report has some insights
You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology…
STAT+: As Washington mulls new AI rules, startup leaders want a seat at the table
WASHINGTON — In San Francisco, Y Combinator’s firebrand chief executive Garry Tan is one of…
STAT+: How a device maker inundated pain patients with unwanted batteries and surprise bills
Michelle Bean is drowning in batteries she doesn’t need. For two years, the batteries and…
5 takeaways from STAT’s look at unwanted supplies and surprise bills from device maker Zynex Medical
Sending patients heaps of medical supplies to score more money from insurers is common in…
STAT+: Becton Dickinson to buy Edwards patient monitoring unit for $4.2 billion
Becton Dickinson plans to pay $4.2 billion for Edwards Lifesciences’ critical care business, which sells…
STAT+: Elevance PBM’s president out as customers complain of prescription chaos
Paul Marchetti, the head of insurer Elevance Health’s pharmacy benefit manager, has left the company…
STAT+: ASCO Daily Recap: AstraZeneca’s hat trick, a GSK turnaround, and palliative care as telehealth
You’re reading the web edition of ASCO in 30 Seconds, STAT’s guide to the American…