STAT Plus: ‘Unleash that data’: Medicare chief promotes freer exchange of medical records, highlights efforts to protect privacy
After a year of intense lobbying, the Trump administration on Monday finalized federal rules to…
Category: Health Tech
New Trump rules aim to fuel sharing of patient health records by smartphone
President Trump’s top health care aides on Monday said they will finalize federal rules requiring…
Listen: Pharma’s response to coronavirus, Google’s appetite for health data, and biotech’s rise in China
Does “The Art of the Deal” cover vaccines? Is patient privacy a relic of the…
Covid-19 epidemic forces cancellation of HIMSS health tech conference
The health care technology trade group HIMSS has canceled its annual conference for the first…
STAT Plus: What to expect at health tech’s big HIMSS conference — if it happens
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STAT Plus: Contract spells out how the University of Chicago shared patient data with Google
SAN FRANCISCO — In December 2016, Google and the University of Chicago signed a contract…
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Telehealth can help fight the novel coronavirus, but U.S. challenges could limit its potential
As the world braces for the spread of disease caused by the new coronavirus, public…
STAT Plus: AI has arrived in medical imaging. Now the FDA needs to monitor its impact on patients
BETHESDA, Md. — This is the moment of truth for the FDA’s regulation of artificial…
Researchers develop AI-based intervention for kids with autism
Everyday social interactions with family members and peers can be challenging for children with autism…
STAT Plus: This CEO running clinics for Apple and Facebook wants to ‘flip’ the primary care model
It’s been two years since tech behemoth Amazon launched its joint venture in health care…
STAT Plus: Contract offers unprecedented look at Google deal to obtain patient data from the University of California
SAN FRANCISCO — It was the fall of 2015 when researchers from Google and the…
STAT Plus: Google’s labors to anonymize patient data suggest health systems face an uphill battle
Google has been exploring creative ways to protect sensitive health data, even as it has…
STAT Plus: Nuance begins selling AI system to automate physician note-taking during exams
The medical speech recognition company Nuance said Monday it will begin widely selling an artificial…
STAT Plus: FDA names genes that may interact with specific drugs, offering clarity to genetic testing industry
The burgeoning industry built around telling patients how their genes may interact with specific drugs…
Aided by machine learning, scientists find a novel antibiotic able to kill superbugs in mice
For decades, discovering novel antibiotics meant digging through the same patch of dirt. Biologists spent…
STAT Plus: European Union proposes independent audits for high-risk AI systems
A version of this story appeared in STAT’s Health Tech newsletter. Click here to subscribe. European regulators…
Webinar: From computer to clinic: The challenges of implementing artificial intelligence in practice
It’s one thing to train an algorithm to produce headline-grabbing results on paper. It’s quite…
Health apps collecting sensitive data need more transparent terms of service, law experts argue
We’ve all been there. We’ve downloaded a new app or visited a website that requires…
STAT Plus: For homebound people and their distant caregivers, smarter speakers to keep track of their health
Every day, Kathleen McVicar of Cotuit, Mass., has a few simple questions for her 85-year-old…
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FDA approves AI-based software that helps doctors take ultrasound pictures of the heart
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a software product from an artificial intelligence startup…
STAT Plus: Big Tech aimed to disrupt health care. Big Retail may be better positioned to do so
Move aside, Big Tech. If 2017 was the year technology giants like Apple set their…
STAT Plus: New ‘real world evidence’ company leverages medical societies to produce data for pharma
Two years ago, Roche spent $1.9 billion to buy a startup, Flatiron Health, which uses…
Chatbots are screening for the new coronavirus — and turning up cases of the flu
SAN FRANCISCO — As the new coronavirus spreads, health-tech startups with medical chatbots are scrambling…
STAT Plus: This VC firm once pledged to never invest in health care. Now it’s launching its third life sciences fund
Marc Andreessen, famous for proclaiming that software was “eating the world,” said in 2009 that…
STAT Plus: ‘It’s very easy to get starry-eyed about AI’: Experts offer warnings on digital disruption in health care
Jenni West’s job is to spot innovative technology that improves people’s lives. As associate director…
STAT Plus: Medical data startup Syapse cuts 10% of workforce as it prioritizes data analytics and insights
SAN FRANCISCO — Syapse, among the highest profile companies in a wave of startups seeking…
In coronavirus response, AI is becoming a useful tool in a global outbreak, data experts say
A version of this story appeared in STAT’s Health Tech newsletter. Click here to subscribe. Artificial intelligence…
STAT Plus: Prosecutors identified ‘Pharma Co. X’ as central to alleged opioid kickback scheme. Was it Purdue?
Federal prosecutors this week announced a $145 million settlement with an electronic health records company…
STAT Plus: These 10 startups acquired by Alphabet reveal a health care play centered on surveillance
At a gathering of the world’s business and political titans last week, Google CEO Sundar…
STAT Plus: Amid a competitor’s struggles, a startup with a fraction of its funding takes on ‘digital pills’
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STAT Plus: Verily’s top health leaders: We’re ‘trying to solve problems that many of us have lived’
SAN FRANCISCO — Andy Conrad, the CEO of Verily, the life sciences unit of search…
Will the FDA give the go-ahead to a prescription video game? The wait goes on, as new data come in
SAN FRANCISCO — In mid-2018, the startup Akili Interactive Labs asked the Food and Drug…
STAT Plus: Pfizer’s big data exec on pharma’s ‘arms race’ to partner with companies like Fitbit, 23AndMe, and others
Pharmaceutical giants are hunting for ways to tap into the data from your smart watch,…
STAT Plus: This CEO wants to make telehealth more than ‘an exercise in convenience’
SAN FRANCISCO — The year was 2007. To raucous applause, Apple CEO Steve Jobs proudly…
STAT Plus: How swallowing a star might keep you from missing a dose of medicine
SAN FRANCISCO — Plenty of drug industry executives who take over this city for a…
A forerunner in ‘smart pills’ adopts a new tack as key pharma partnership unravels
SAN FRANCISCO — It was supposed to be a showcase for the way in which…
STAT Plus: Eyeing more data, Livongo will integrate continuous glucose monitor into diabetes coaching program
SAN FRANCISCO — For companies that monitor and coach patients with chronic disease, there are…
STAT Plus: Facebook’s new tool promotes preventive health. But the company can’t tell if it’s working
LAS VEGAS — As Facebook’s newest health tool makes its way to your feed, the…
STAT Plus: Apple came to the world’s biggest tech conference for the first time in 28 years. It barely talked about health
Breaking a 28-year hiatus, Apple made an appearance this week at the annual Consumer Electronics…
At CES, digital health gadgets gave me a detailed accounting of my flaws and failures
LAS VEGAS — I have 905 pores, 20 wrinkles, and a face that looks 13%…
STAT Plus: A Q&A with FDA’s Amy Abernethy on how the agency is grappling with digital health regulation
LAS VEGAS — The Food and Drug Administration announced this week it will hold a…
STAT Plus: Pear Therapeutics licenses voice biomarkers for dementia and psychiatric disorders
Pear Therapeutics has struck a deal to license voice biomarkers to try to improve treatment…
Google AI tool can pinpoint breast cancer better than clinicians, new study suggests
Researchers at Google, working alongside experts at Northwestern University and three British medical institutions, have…
What will 2020 bring for medicine and science? We asked 16 leaders for predictions
Last year, when we asked science and health care soothsayers to peak ahead to 2019,…
3 stories to watch in health tech in 2020
Judging by the numbers, digital health companies had another huge year in 2019. Total investment…
Opinion: Tech and health care need their own ‘Hippocratic oath’ to make digital health work
When a whistleblower revealed the details of Project Nightingale, a collaboration between Google and the…
At Mayo Clinic, AI engineers face an ‘acid test’: Will their algorithms help real patients?
ROCHESTER, Minn. — It would be easy to wonder what Zachi Attia is doing in…
STAT Plus: These 7 startups acquired by Apple are central to its health care strategy
Of all the tech companies aiming to shakeup health care, few have proclaimed as bold a…
Mayo Clinic taps Boston health tech leader to guide data strategy
On the heels of forming a new partnership with Google, Mayo Clinic announced it has…
A glitch in diabetes monitors serves as a cautionary tale for health tech
Here’s the challenge for technology in health care: Success means that new tech also becomes…