STAT Plus: Johnson & Johnson invests in Thirty Madison, signaling the resilience of pharma’s interest in health tech
Late last year, several high-profile partnerships between big pharma companies and health tech startups fell…
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STAT Plus: Teladoc rival MDLive is preparing to go public next year
On the heels of Teladoc’s landscape-shifting deal to buy Livongo, telemedicine rival MDLive is setting…
STAT Plus: With Livongo’s arsenal of health devices, Teladoc is poised to move into remote monitoring
As part of its landmark $18.5 billion deal to buy Livongo, telehealth giant Teladoc Health…
As mindfulness app Headspace booms, its popularity outpaces its scientific evidence
This has, by all accounts, been a banner year for Headspace. Demand for the mindfulness…
STAT Plus: 10 burning questions about Teladoc’s $18.5 billion deal to buy Livongo
It’s hard to recall a deal that scrambled the dynamics of the health tech industry…
Blackstone agrees to buy Ancestry in $4.7 billion deal
Investment firm Blackstone announced on Wednesday that it was scooping up direct-to-consumer genetics company Ancestry…
Teladoc Health and Livongo merge in an $18.5 billion deal
Telemedicine provider Teladoc Health and diabetes coaching company Livongo have agreed to merge in an…
STAT Plus: Earnings season highlights how health tech companies fared in the first full quarter of the pandemic
It’s earnings season for health tech companies — and that’s opening a window into how…
Telemedicine is booming — but many people still face huge barriers to virtual care
As Covid-19 drives many patients away from in-person care and toward virtual visits, experts warn…
STAT Plus: Haven was supposed to reimagine health care. An exodus of talent has gutted it
Haven, the audacious health venture founded by three of America’s most storied companies, was once…
Covid-19 apps and wearables are everywhere. Can they actually benefit patients?
With Covid-19 cases again climbing, health tech companies and researchers are renewing their pitch for…
Webinar: Inside the virtual care boom: What happens when the point of care becomes anywhere?
Virtual care and digital health tools are soaring in popularity amid the Covid-19 pandemic. A…
STAT Plus: MacKenzie Scott, with a massive Amazon fortune, emerges as a public health philanthropist
You may not know the name MacKenzie Scott – the author just started going by…
‘It’s like you injected adrenaline into them’: Facebook’s vaccine misinformation problem faces a new test with Covid-19
As scientists begin to clear a path to a potential coronavirus vaccine, researchers and advocates…
As Covid-19 surges, researchers amass lung scans to build AI systems for patient care
At first, the images of lungs infected by the novel coronavirus were hard to come…
STAT Plus: New research finds a wide gulf in engagement with digital mental health tools
A first-of-its-kind analysis, conducted in collaboration with researchers at Microsoft, paints a detailed picture of…
‘X to the Z’: San Francisco official pushes city to condemn public hospital’s Zuckerberg name
A San Francisco city official is introducing a resolution to condemn the city’s public hospital…
STAT Plus: Eyeing an IPO, Hims expands further into virtual mental health care
San Francisco startup Hims & Hers took a further step into the mental health realm…
STAT Plus: Health tech companies are shelling out more to lobby Washington during the pandemic
In the first half of 2020, the pandemic spurred a surge in the use of…
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STAT Plus: Hospitals deploy AI to send patients home earlier — and keep them there
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has a problem familiar to many hospitals: Too many patients…
STAT Plus: As new users flock to health apps, experts raise questions about public understanding of data privacy
As digital health tools proliferate, health data experts are raising a new round of alarms…
STAT+ Conversations: AI’s march into the clinic
Editor’s note: A livestream of the conversation will be embedded above at 1 p.m. ET…
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STAT Plus: As Amazon builds new health ventures, Haven struggles to gain ground
Amazon’s sprawling, sometimes stilted approach to employee health care is growing more complicated — and…
An invisible hand: Patients aren’t being told about the AI systems advising their care
Since February of last year, tens of thousands of patients hospitalized at one of Minnesota’s…
STAT Plus: Seeking EU approval on acquisition, Google pledges not to use Fitbit health data to target ads
With the clock ticking on a European Commission probe into Google’s $2.1 billion bid for…
STAT Plus: Telemedicine is more convenient during Covid-19. It’s also a magnet for fraud and data theft
The increased convenience of telemedicine visits during the Covid-19 pandemic is spurring calls among patients…
STAT Plus: A new tool aims to help patients sort through 200 mental health apps — and counting
There are nearly 20,000 mental health apps that will do everything from tracking a person’s…
STAT Plus: Proving predictions wrong, health tech funding keeps climbing
Despite forecasts that investments in health tech would dry up by mid-year, venture funding for…
Tech giants are well-positioned to help close racial gaps in health. They have little to show for it
As the nation confronts a reckoning over racial inequality, tech giants — with their vast…
An experiment in end-of-life care: Tapping AI’s cold calculus to nudge the most human of conversations
The daily email that arrived in physician Samantha Wang’s inbox at 8 a.m., just before…
An app for football fans became a digital contact tracing tool — and could be a litmus test for Covid-19 technology
Software engineer Tim Brookins didn’t build his Bison Tracker app with the coronavirus pandemic in…
STAT Plus: Can a prescription video game actually make money? Akili is about to find out
Akili Interactive Labs proved last week that it could convince the Food and Drug Administration…
STAT Plus: Smart pill maker Proteus files for bankruptcy, reveals it has held acquisition talks with Otsuka
Smart pill maker Proteus Digital Health on Monday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the latest…
STAT Plus: Telehealth is a ‘silver lining’ of the pandemic, but implementing it permanently won’t be easy
The coronavirus pandemic has stretched hospital resources beyond their capacity, disrupted the delivery of care,…
Can location data capture how well the Covid-19 response is working? A joint effort aims to find out
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, tech giants have chipped in on a panoply of…
Meet STACI: your interactive guide to the rapid advances of AI in health care
Artificial intelligence has become its own sub-industry in health care, driving the development of products…
In unusual revolt, scientists funded by Mark Zuckerberg criticize Facebook’s inaction on President Trump’s posts
Dozens of scientists who have received research funding from Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropic vehicle have signed…
Your boss wants you to take a Covid-19 test and track your symptoms. There’s software for that
As more employers reopen their offices, stores, and warehouses, a growing number of health tech…
At Mayo Clinic, sharing patient data with companies fuels AI innovation — and concerns about consent
ROCHESTER, Minn. — The patients of Mayo Clinic, whether they know it or not, have…
STAT Plus: Despite economic downturn, big names in health tech are drawing in significant funding
It was expected to be a last-minute salvo: As much of the world braced for…
AI systems are worse at diagnosing disease when training data is skewed by sex
The artificial intelligence model showed great promise in predicting which patients treated in U.S. Veterans…
STAT Plus: AI startup transcribes and annotates doctor visits for patients
Most attempts to use artificial intelligence to transcribe doctor visits are aimed at limiting documentation…
Digital event: Confronting a Pandemic — Part 3
Editor’s note: The livestream will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET. The need to…
Federal legislation to protect health data has made little progress. Will that change in the Covid-19 era?
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, health data privacy wasn’t exactly a hot topic on Capitol Hill….
STAT Plus: Two years of halting progress and high turnover preceded Atul Gawande’s exit as Haven CEO
Atul Gawande’s announcement last week that he was stepping down as CEO of a high-profile…
STAT Plus: Google develops AI to identify patients at high risk of blindness
Artificial intelligence has shown an increasing ability to detect and diagnose eye diseases by analyzing…
Gawande says leaving Haven CEO job will allow him to focus on Covid-19
Atul Gawande on Wednesday confirmed that he will step down as chief executive of the…
Fueled by the Covid-19 pandemic, remote heart monitoring could become tech’s next big target
It was a shift that began long before the pandemic: Tech companies, health providers, and…
STAT Plus: Hospitals are reluctant to share data. A new effort to map brain tumors with AI is getting their help another way
It’s a contradiction that’s long slowed the forward march of artificial intelligence in medicine: Machine…
STAT Plus: AI-centric health companies landed crucial funding in early 2020
Artificial intelligence-focused health care companies raised nearly $1 billion in funding in the first quarter…