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3 lessons from Stanford’s Covid-19 vaccine algorithm debacle
Stanford found itself in hot water last week after deploying a faulty Covid-19 vaccine distribution…
Category: Health Tech
STAT+: ‘It’s really on them to learn’: How the rapid rollout of AI tools has fueled frustration among clinicians
Hospice nurse Deborah Carlson had been hesitant to embrace the artificial intelligence tool her health…
After experts criticized its approach, Facebook overhauls its Covid-19 misinformation policy
Facebook has overhauled its approach to harmful Covid-19 health misinformation, announcing major changes that would…
Early data suggest wearables can catch some cases of Covid-19 before symptoms emerge
The results of several ambitious studies testing wearables as early predictors of for Covid-19 are…
New cancer patients — especially Black people — are more susceptible to severe Covid-19 infections
Recently diagnosed cancer patients are more vulnerable to Covid-19 infection and face more severe illness…
STAT+: Marking a new rivalry with Apple, Google launches its own health studies app
Google made a major move into health research on Wednesday, unveiling a new smartphone app…
CommonHealth, the Android answer to Apple health records, expands to 230 health systems
A cohort of researchers and developers announced Friday that the Android app CommonHealth — which…
STAT+: Steered by a former Uber Health exec, a new startup aims to bridge in-home care and telemedicine
Telemedicine has become a lifeline during the Covid-19 pandemic, but it is not enough help…
STAT+: Covid-19 vaccines will arrive before the data sharing technology that could help track them
Scientists have produced Covid-19 vaccines in record time. But the digital connectivity needed to closely…
DeepMind’s protein-folding AI stuns with a solution to one of biology’s biggest challenges
At the start of a biennial contest to predict the structure of proteins, the expectations…
STAT+: ‘The trend is irreversible’: How Covid-19 could drive a shift toward decentralized trials
Covid-19 started as a disaster for clinical research, halting or delaying 3 of every 4…
STAT+: A leading AI researcher calls for standards to ensure equity and fairness
A top researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Thursday said that artificial intelligence…
STAT+: How Amazon Pharmacy could ramp up pressure on the prescription drug industry
The launch of Amazon Pharmacy on Tuesday sent shockwaves through the pharmacy pipeline, with industry…
Health systems are using AI to predict severe Covid-19 cases. But limited data could produce unreliable results
As the United States braces for a bleak winter, hospital systems across the country are…
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STAT+: Amazon, expanding its growing health empire, launches Amazon Pharmacy
Amazon added new territory to its burgeoning health care empire on Tuesday, launching Amazon Pharmacy,…
STAT Plus: Telehealth startup Ro expands partnership with Pfizer to provide generic drugs
Telehealth startup Ro is expanding its partnership with pharma giant Pfizer’s generics arm to offer…
STAT Plus: The health tech tracker for the fourth quarter: 14 pivotal industry events to watch
Welcome to STAT’s Health Tech Tracker, a ledger of all the major data readouts, product…
As insurers move this week to stop waiving telehealth copays, patients may have to pay more for virtual care
Starting Oct. 1, several private health insurers will no longer fully pay for virtual visits…
STAT Plus: Medical AI systems are disproportionately built with data from just three states, new research finds
Late last year, Stanford University researcher Amit Kaushal and a collaborator noticed something striking while…
STAT Plus: Teladoc’s tussle with Amwell raises questions about defining property rights in digital health
The field of health tech is facing a big question: Can it establish strong patent…
When AI is the opposite of sinister: An MIT researcher is held up as model of how algorithms can benefit humanity
In June, when MIT artificial intelligence researcher Regina Barzilay went to Massachusetts General Hospital for…
STAT Plus: In another health bet, Amazon expands virtual care program for employees
Amazon is expanding a virtual health care initiative for employees called Amazon Care on Tuesday…
STAT Plus: Teladoc accuses Amwell of infringing on its telehealth patents
Telehealth provider Teladoc last week accused Amwell of infringing on its patents and demanded that…
How Pinterest beat back vaccine misinformation — and what Facebook could learn from its approach
The battle over misinformation amid the Covid-19 pandemic has pitted health experts, parts of the…
STAT Plus: 5 takeaways from venture capital’s growing focus on mental health
Research suggests that only half of the tens of millions of people in the U.S….
STAT Plus: Amwell rides IPO wave with expanded stock sale
Taking advantage of a pickup in demand for new stocks, American Well Corp. expanded its…
Remote monitoring is rapidly growing — and a new class of patient-consumer is driving the shift
A cardiac patient in Carlsbad sends their doctor in San Francisco a readout of their…
AI could help rid health care of biases. It also might make them worse
Hospitals and health care companies are increasingly tapping experimental artificial intelligence tools to improve medical…
STAT Plus: Venture capitalist donates BrainGate, brain-machine interface company, to Tufts University
For more than a decade, scientist and entrepreneur Jeff Stibel’s company BrainGate has been developing…
How Lyft’s growing medical business is trying to close gaps in health care access
When Megan Callahan was weighing whether to join Lyft’s burgeoning health care business two years…
As health tech flourished, Teladoc and Livongo saw an opportunity to ‘accelerate,’ executives say
It took a lot of late-night and early-morning Zoom calls plus some socially distanced in-person…
Doctors are increasingly using remote monitoring technology, raising questions about inclusivity and usability
Remote monitoring technologies let doctors keep tabs on how you’re doing, even when you’re nowhere…
STAT Plus: Is the Covid-19 pandemic a tipping point for digital health?
Covid-19 may turn out to be digital health’s tipping point, two Silicon Valley venture capitalists…
STAT Plus: Can AI improve cancer diagnosis in real patients? Google has enlisted the U.S. military to find out
Google has published plenty of papers demonstrating the potential of artificial intelligence to detect cancer…
STAT Plus: Dan Trigub, head of Uber Health, is leaving to launch a health care startup
Dan Trigub, who for the last two years has led Uber Health, is leaving the…
STAT Plus: Biofourmis raises $100 million for remote patient monitoring tools
Biofourmis, a Boston startup that makes technology to remotely monitor patients with chronic conditions and…
STAT Health Tech: Google’s government contract to use AI in cancer diagnosis & new data on virtual diabetes coaching
A version of this digest first appeared in the weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter. To…
STAT Plus: What we learned about the business of telemedicine from Amwell and GoodRx’s IPO filings
Last week, two virtual care providers filed paperwork to go public — offering an unprecedented…
STAT+ Conversations: A conversation with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Editor’s note: A live stream of the conversation will be embedded above at 1 p.m….
Telehealth grew wildly popular amid Covid-19. Now visits are dropping, forcing providers to recalibrate
A nationwide dropoff in telemedicine visits is forcing providers who raced to ramp up virtual…
STAT Plus: Nearly a year since opening its doors, here’s how Verily’s addiction medicine campus is taking shape
Verily drew widespread praise last year when it announced an “ambitious endeavor” to combat the…
Elon Musk’s Neuralink unveils prototype of brain implants — and looks toward clinical trials
Elon Musk on Friday unveiled a coin-sized prototype of a brain implant developed by his…
STAT Plus: Amazon debuts wrist wearable Halo, marking its entry into health tracking
Joining the ranks of other health tech giants, Amazon on Thursday debuted a wrist wearable…
STAT Plus: Telehealth company Amwell files to sell shares to public, Google
American Well Corp., a Boston telehealth company known as Amwell, said it plans to sell…
STAT+ Conversations: A conversation with 23andMe
Editor’s note: A livestream of the conversation will be embedded above at 1 p.m. ET. …
STAT Plus: As Elon Musk’s Neuralink prepares to draw back the curtain, ex-employees describe rushed timelines clashing with science’s slow pace
The hype from Elon Musk has been coming for weeks: This Friday, his secretive brain-implants…
STAT Plus: Otsuka approved to buy bankrupt smart-pill maker Proteus’ assets, overcoming effort by Novartis to block purchase
The Japanese drug maker Otsuka has been approved to purchase the assets of bankrupt smart…
STAT Health Tech: How Teladoc won and Lyft’s Medicaid transportation business
A version of this digest first appeared in the weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter. To…
Virtual Event: AI: Cracking Covid-19’s Code
Editor’s note: A live stream of this virtual event will be embedded above at 1…
STAT Plus: How Teladoc won: The inside story of how well-timed bets propelled it ahead of the competition
The unquestioned leader in a virtual care sector that has surged in the Covid-19 era,…