STAT+: Amazon Care signs first customer for burgeoning health business
Amazon Care signed its first enterprise customer this week, a significant milestone as the virtual-first…
Category: Health Tech
STAT+: Dyno raises $100 million to bring artificial intelligence to gene therapy
Dyno Therapeutics, a Cambridge biotech that uses artificial intelligence techniques to develop gene therapies, said…
The editor of digital health’s newest journal wants to democratize medicine with data
As an ICU physician, Leo Anthony Celi knows the immense power health data can hold….
STAT+: 5 virtual physical therapy startups to watch
Virtual physical therapy could almost be considered an oxymoron. Physical therapy, key to recovering from…
STAT+: How a startup beat health care heavyweights to win Medicare’s AI contest
A $1 million government contest to predict health problems with artificial intelligence attracted the heavyweights…
STAT+: 5 startups seizing the moment to shake up the electronic health record industry
The road to shake up the health record industry is littered with failures. But a…
STAT+: Uber names a new head of its growing health business
Uber hailed a new lead for its expanding health business on Thursday, naming Caitlin Donovan…
AI caught a hidden problem in one patient’s heart. Can it work for others?
Somewhere in Peter Maercklein’s heartbeat was an abnormality no one could find. He survived a…
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STAT+: Accolade to acquire PlushCare as telehealth competition intensifies
In a bid to beef up the services it can provide directly to customers, Accolade…
STAT+: With $12 million in new funding, data-syncing platform Seqster takes aim at health records
If health tech challenges were mountains, patient medical records would be a kind of Everest,…
A new crop of medical devices are trying to hack the vagus nerve to treat disease
The vagus nerve, also known as the “wandering nerve,” winds a path all around your…
STAT+: More surveillance is coming to the operating room. Surgeons warn that’s risky
Much of what happens in the operating room is shrouded in mystery: The patient goes…
STAT+: STAT+ Conversations: A conversation on building infrastructure for population health
Editors note: A livestream of the conversation will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET….
STAT+: The future of voice tech in medicine is here. Can reality live up to the promise?
Microsoft’s high-profile of acquisition of Nuance Communications is a seeming win for patients and providers….
STAT+: In a sharp rebuke, health officials toss Trump-era proposal to exempt medical AI tools from review
In a searing rebuke, the Biden administration is formally withdrawing a last-minute proposal by the…
Glucose monitors revolutionized diabetes care. Now digital health startups want to bring them to the masses
For the 1.6 million people in America living with type 1 diabetes, a continuous glucose…
STAT+: Heralding a ‘societal transformation’ in health care, Mayo Clinic launches two companies to harness patient data
Mayo Clinic is forming a pair of companies to collect and analyze data from remote…
STAT+: Microsoft to buy Nuance Communications for $19.7 billion
Microsoft announced on Monday that it has agreed to acquire Burlington-based artificial intelligence and technology…
STAT+: Amazon established a foothold in diagnostics during Covid-19. Now it’s doubling down
Vin Gupta’s hiring in January 2020 could not have come at a better time for…
Google is exploring a health record tool for patients
After 13 years, Google is coming back for patient health records. The tech giant has…
STAT+: Digital pharmacy startup Thirty Madison taps former Lilly exec as president
After nearly three decades working at two of the world’s pharmaceutical giants, Michelle Carnahan is…
STAT+: ‘Here to stay’: How the pandemic helped build a burgeoning home testing industry
Just a few years ago, the idea of at-home testing was practically antithetical to Caesar…
STAT+: How artificial intelligence could make clinical trials smarter
Clinical trials have a dirty little secret. For all the careful work that goes into…
Akili’s therapeutic video game will be tested as a treatment for Covid ‘brain fog’
Akili, which made history last summer by earning regulatory clearance for the first video-game based…
Opinion: A skeptic’s take on Neuralink and other consumer neurotech
The titans of Silicon Valley say that the brain-computer interface revolution is coming, and neurotech…
‘Who is going to protect me?’: Ratings app aims to remove bias from the birthing experiences of Black and brown mothers
Thirty weeks into my first pregnancy, I developed some concerning abdominal pain. The clinicians in…
Virtual therapy startups tackle the gap in mental health care for kids and teens
When Alex Alvarado and his co-founders started their virtual therapy company Daybreak Health in February…
STAT+: Former Medicare leader Seema Verma joins board of health tech firm Lumeris
She was President Trump’s top Medicare official. Now, Seema Verma, the former Centers for Medicare…
STAT+: The health tech tracker for the second quarter: 15 pivotal industry events to watch
Securing a billion dollars of yearly funding was once considered a landmark achievement in health…
STAT+: 5 health care projects to watch at Google Cloud
If the pieces come together, Google will be as omnipresent in health care as it…
Facing data gaps on trans populations, researchers turn to health records for answers
Electronic health records are enabling a new generation of health care researchers to study thousands…
Opinion: Lessons from Nordic countries can accelerate the impact of AI in medicine
The Swedish-made Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut is one of the fastest and most beautiful cars ever…
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Inside the battle over Talkspace and a grand experiment in mental health
Late last year, Reno, Nev., Mayor Hillary Schieve proposed a novel idea to try to…
Amazon, on the move in health care, is granted authorization for its own Covid-19 test
Amazon is now the developer of an authorized Covid-19 test. The company on Thursday received…
STAT+: With Amazon and Ro on its heels, Uber expands its prescription delivery business
After steering into prescription delivery in two cities last summer with digital pharmacy startup NimbleRx,…
STAT+: Amy Abernethy, deputy commissioner who aimed to amp up FDA’s tech knowhow, to leave post
Amy Abernethy, the number two official at the Food and Drug Administration, plans to depart…
STAT+: Digital therapeutics startups are ready for more regulation, not less
Digital therapeutics companies are eager to show their work. Five days before President Biden took…
STAT+: How the wave of telehealth SPACs during the pandemic could create a ‘perfect storm’ for investors
In little more than a year, telehealth has gone from a backwater of American health…
Backed by Amazon Care and Intermountain, a new coalition lobbies for policy changes around at-home care
The telehealth boom has made one thing clear: The era of health care provided exclusively…
STAT+: What Amazon Care’s nationwide expansion means for the telehealth industry
Amazon is officially starting its ascent to the national telehealth stage — and its nationwide…
STAT+: 4 health startups racing to shake up diabetes care
If you’re a digital health startup looking to make an impact, it makes sense to…
To dampen background noise, hearing aid makers tap AI to amplify the right sounds
For many people with hearing loss, a normal conversation at a busy restaurant is the…
STAT+: VC firm General Catalyst taps expertise of former Ancestry, Livongo, and Gilead executives
General Catalyst’s Hemant Taneja realized he had created a unique playbook for health care startups…
STAT+: Google continues its wellness expansion with sleep sensing technology for Nest Hub
Google is turning another device into a wellness gadget. A month after introducing two health…
STAT+: Inside Color’s big — and highly bankrolled — pivot to public health tech
Mark Evans may just have the fastest tests in the west. In La Cañada, Calif.,…
How will doctors talk to patients about contraception apps like Natural Cycles and Clue?
Two years ago, Danielle Castillo decided to end her 13-year relationship with the pill. She…
Listen: A U.K. take on Covid vaccines, the demise of Watson Health, and a ‘synbio’ explainer
Who is better at making and distributing Covid vaccines, the U.S. or the U.K.? What…
STAT+: 4 lessons from IBM’s failure to transform medicine with Watson Health
The demise of IBM’s Watson Health would be easy to file away as another ill-fated…
STAT+: ‘We are on a collision course’: As virtual care booms, experts call for new health data privacy protections
A drop in your daily step count. A missed period. A loss of hearing. If…
STAT+: Inside the fall of Watson Health: How IBM’s audacious plan to ‘change the face of health care’ with AI fell apart
It was a summer day in 2018, and the outlook could hardly have seemed more…