FDA authorizes new test, built with machine learning, to detect past Covid-19 infections
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday issued an emergency authorization for a new test…
Category: Health Tech
STAT+: FDA releases a new plan to bring its data skills up to speed
When Ram Iyer started his new job at the Food and Drug Administration in 2020,…
STAT+: Apple Watch research plows ahead, revealing the device’s health potential
Apple has marketed its Watch for years as a tool to monitor and improve your…
STAT+: Amazon Care’s health provider has quietly filed paperwork to operate in 17 more states
The clinical provider for Amazon Care, the tech giant’s virtual-first medical platform, is quietly gearing…
STAT+: 5 names to know: the key players steering Amazon’s sprawling push into health care
Its spinout Haven may have shuttered, but Amazon’s appetite for health care disruption has only…
‘A full court press’: Banking on tech backup, CDC launches nationwide VaccineFinder tool
On Wednesday, federal officials quietly opened up access to VaccineFinder, a site that allows the…
How Covid-19 could usher in a new role for continuous glucose monitoring in hospitals
In early May, a wing of Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center was eerily empty….
Backed by Google, epidemiologists launch a sweeping Covid-19 data platform
Last January, Samuel Scarpino wasn’t sure what to make of Covid-19. The director of Northeastern…
STAT+: Google reveals new progress on controversial project using patient data
More than a year after facing widespread criticism over its patient data-sharing arrangement with hospital…
STAT+: ‘Following the Amazon playbook’: As digital pharmacy grows more crowded, startups scramble to stand out
Ever since Amazon launched its digital pharmacy late last year, industry rivals have been worried…
STAT+: Federal watchdog raises concerns about increasing telehealth fraud during pandemic
WASHINGTON — A federal government watchdog is sounding the alarm that Americans’ growing enthusiasm for…
As All of Us moves to diversify medicine, its tech partners push to democratize research
Everyone working from home this year has figured out their own ways to stay focused….
STAT+: Covid crushed in-person pharma sales. Tech is pitching itself as a solution
The pandemic grounded tens of thousands of pharmaceutical reps who usually roam the country urging…
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STAT+: Backed by big hospitals, a former Microsoft executive wades into the messy business of selling patient data
He was once dubbed “the most important man at Microsoft,” a prodigiously talented software engineer…
Opinion: 3 ways the life sciences industries can eliminate bias in AI
Advances in the life sciences over the past decade have made it possible to manipulate…
STAT+: Soaring mental health unicorns race to meet employer needs
Companies scrambling to provide employees with expanded mental health care options are propping up a…
STAT+: Scientists turn to machine learning to tackle one of gene therapy’s biggest challenges
As the world charges to vaccinate the population against the coronavirus, gene therapy developers are…
STAT+: Zocdoc, staking its future on the promise of hybrid care, raises $150 million
Less than a year since Zocdoc reinvented itself as a telehealth platform in the face…
Could AI tools for breast cancer worsen disparities? Patchy public data in FDA filings fuel concern
The great hope of artificial intelligence in breast cancer is that it can distinguish harmless…
Equip, a startup providing virtual therapy for eating disorders, raises $13 million
A vanguard of virtual behavioral health startups are attracting investor interest. The latest: Equip, which…
STAT+: Atul Gawande says Haven experience is helping shape his Covid-19 response work
The storied health tech startup Haven may have shuttered, but its famous former CEO, Atul…
Opinion: A digital option is the right investment for at-home Covid-19 testing
The Biden administration’s recent investment of $230 million to expedite rapid production of the Ellume…
Opinion: Telehealth’s critics have it right: The industry must evolve
For many people, January is a time for new beginnings. But for many telehealth patients,…
STAT+: 5 burning questions on the business of big genetics based on 23andMe’s filing to go public
It seemed a foregone conclusion: Despite the early popularity of companies offering health and ancestry…
STAT+: The Pajama Interview: A conversation with Anne Wojcicki and Richard Branson
When consumer genetics firm 23andMe announced Thursday that it will go public through a deal…
Google expands its health goals with new wellness features for Pixel phones
Google is taking a bite out of another piece of the health care pie. On…
23andMe to go public via Richard Branson’s SPAC
The genetics testing company 23andMe will enter the public markets via a special purpose acquisition…
Apple Watches can help track Parkinson’s disease symptoms
Apple’s quest to put a smartwatch on every wrist continues with its latest health research:…
STAT+: Explore STAT’s database of FDA-cleared AI tools
The Food and Drug Administration has cleared scores of AI tools for use in the…
STAT+: As the FDA clears a flood of AI tools, missing data raise troubling questions on safety and fairness
Artificial intelligence is the fastest-growing frontier in medicine, but it is also among the most…
Verily spinout Onduo expands virtual care to Spanish speakers
The virtual care company Onduo is widening its reach: On Tuesday, the Alphabet-owned company announced…
STAT+: Could training AI to learn from patients give doctors a better understanding of the causes of pain?
For years, AI researchers have focused their energy on developing algorithms capable of sharpening or…
STAT+: Amid a crush of Covid-19 research, scientists hone an AI tool to rapidly screen studies
Long before the pace of scientific publishing about Covid-19 broke land speed records, researchers were…
For states, tracking Covid-19 vaccination data poses a huge challenge
After a long day of doling out Covid-19 vaccines, workers in Utah County toil late…
STAT+: How Teladoc is teeing itself up to dominate in telehealth after the pandemic subsides
Teladoc is teeing itself up to remain a dominant digital health provider long after the…
‘Slippery slope territory’: Health officials propose waiving regulatory review of medical AI tools
Days before leaving office, President Trump’s top health official is proposing to permanently exempt from…
Two ways Fitbit could boost Google’s health ambitions
Google’s newly-finalized purchase of Fitbit is poised to provide the tech giant with a potentially…
Vaccine registration technology is failing. Here’s how the Biden administration could fix it
The crashes of online vaccine scheduling systems have become a sad symbol of how technology…
STAT+: What comes after the telehealth boom? Hybrid care models are drawing investor interest
Buoyed by the pandemic, 2020 was undoubtedly the year that telehealth turned the corner to…
STAT+: ‘This is the foundation’: Health tech leaders discuss access, inequity, and community at CES
For all the focus on digital health at the Consumer Electronics Show for the past…
STAT+: 4 steps for AI developers to build trust in their clinical tools
As health systems deploy new tools that predict patients’ risk of serious medical outcomes, many…
Talkspace to go public in $1.4 billion SPAC deal
In a sign of the red-hot market for telemental health care, Talkspace announced Wednesday it…
STAT+: Health tech experts explain why trust is crucial for clinical AI tools
It was a slight departure from the usual Consumer Electronics Show panel: Rather than touting…
STAT+: STAT+ Conversations: The health tech news to watch at CES 2021
Editor’s note: A livestream of the conversation will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET. …
Listen: Biden’s plans for biopharma, a CES preview, & the next phase of the pandemic
What does a Democratic Senate portend for the drug industry? Is software eating health care?…
STAT+: Inside the collapse of a disrupter: How Haven’s high hopes of redefining health care came to a crashing halt
The dissolution of Haven marks one of the most stunning collapses in modern health care…
Haven, ambitious health venture backed by Amazon, to shut down
After a tumultuous three years marked by halting progress and high rates of employee turnover,…
STAT+: The health tech tracker for the first quarter: 13 important events to watch
It will be a quarter unlike any other in recent memory for the health tech…
STAT+: 3 key questions for the health tech industry in 2021
Fueled by a seemingly endless influx of cash, technology has influenced the practice of medicine…
STAT+: Health tech’s newest unicorn is running toward Medicaid patients long marginalized in medicine
It has become a business imperative in American medicine to marginalize patients on Medicaid. Their…