STAT+: HHS: Change Healthcare can make data breach notifications in lieu of hospitals
Change Healthcare can notify patients whose sensitive health information has been exposed as a result…
Category: Health Tech
STAT+: Clinical lab trade group sues FDA over plan to regulate lab-developed tests
A group representing clinical labs across the country sued the Food and Drug Administration on…
STAT+: Akili, maker of a video game to treat ADHD, acquired for $34 million
A month after announcing it was seeking strategic alternatives, Akili Interactive, maker of a video…
STAT+: Scientists install ‘window’ in the skull to record brain activity using ultrasound
Researchers may have a new way to watch the human brain pulse, thanks to an…
The new menstruation: Girls are getting their periods earlier and less regularly
Menstruation is a critical indicator of health. Whether and when someone with a uterus gets…
STAT+: Health insurers boast to investors about using AI, but they’d rather not talk about it
Health insurers are telling shareholders that they are ramping up the use of artificial intelligence…
STAT+: Gene therapies for deafness dredge up an old question: Do deaf people want a ‘cure’?
When Yilai Shu was training to be an otolaryngologist in Shanghai, in the mid 2000s,…
STAT+: Cue Health, Covid-19 testing company, is shutting down
In an abrupt change of course from plans earlier in the month, at-home test maker…
UnitedHealth argues algorithm lawsuit should be dismissed because patients didn’t spend years appealing denials
UnitedHealth Group should be released from a lawsuit that alleges its algorithm-based technology prematurely cut…
STAT+: Eyeing GLP-1 opportunity, Click buys assets of Better Therapeutics
Digital therapeutics company Click Therapeutics announced Wednesday it will acquire the assets of Better Therapeutics,…
Opinion: Digital health: a case of mistaken identity
History and literature are replete with cautionary tales on the dangers of pretending to be…
STAT+: AI & drug discovery: A biotech CEO, a scientist, and a venture capitalist separate hype from reality
Artificial intelligence is a rapidly improving technology. But its progress in drug development faces an…
STAT+: A novel spinal cord stimulator treats paralysis without surgery. FDA will rule on it soon
After his spinal cord injury in 2014, Sherown Campbell worked hard to regain as much…
STAT+: Venture capitalist Bob Kocher on generative AI startups, Change Healthcare cyberattack
SAN FRANCISCO — Health tech investor Bob Kocher has seen some bad AI-related startup pitches…
STAT+: Wearable devices generate powerful data but it’s not useful to doctors, yet
Just because the Food and Drug Administration has given the Apple Watch and other wearable…
STAT+: NVIDIA’s Kimberly Powell touts progress on AI in drug discovery
SAN FRANCISCO — In the world of drug discovery, AI progress is often measured by…
STAT+: Microsoft’s Peter Lee says ChatGPT shouldn’t be used for initial diagnosis
SAN FRANCISCO — Surging interest in generative AI among medical professionals since ChatGPT’s launch is…
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Second House panel advances two-year telehealth extension
WASHINGTON — A House subcommittee on Thursday advanced legislation that would extend some pandemic-era telehealth…
STAT+: Abbott’s dissolvable stent, which failed in heart disease patients, may help vascular patients
An Abbott device that failed in heart disease patients is getting a new life in…
STAT+: The White House hikes tariffs on Chinese medical products
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it’s raising taxes on a range of…
STAT+: Cue Health’s Covid-19 tests could give false results, FDA warns
The Food and Drug Administration warned consumers Monday to not use Cue Health’s at-home Covid-19…
STAT+: Software glitch caused Tandem insulin pumps to prematurely shut down, FDA warns
At least 224 diabetes patients have been harmed by a software error causing their insulin…
STAT+: In fundamental advance, Google says AlphaFold 3 can map a vast universe of biomolecules
Google on Wednesday unveiled an artificial intelligence tool capable of predicting the structure and interaction…
STAT+: Apple pushes into clinical trials with new FDA nod for Apple Watch
The Apple Watch has secured a new qualification from the Food and Drug Administration that…
STAT’s Casey Ross and Bob Herman named 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalists
Dear Readers, We are enormously proud that STAT reporters Casey Ross and Bob Herman have…
STAT+: House panel eyes PBM reform to pay for telehealth extensions
A new bill set to be considered on Wednesday by the House Ways & Means…
STAT+: Assistants, not replacements: How AI can accelerate research and health care
When patients are dealing with a sexually transmitted infection, they don’t always get advice on…
Opinion: Digital devices can help clinicians prescribe physical activity
Physical inactivity is the fourth leading risk factor for death. With most adolescents and one-quarter…
STAT+: Lawmakers unlikely to permanently extend telehealth flexibilities this year
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress appear poised to advance another short-term extension of pandemic-era telehealth…
STAT+: Health economist marks up UnitedHealth CEO’s Senate hearing on the Change Healthcare cyberattack
For lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, Wednesday’s congressional hearings about the Change Healthcare…
STAT+: Transcarent, Glen Tullman’s health tech unicorn, raises $126 million
Transcarent, the fast-moving company helmed by health tech investor and former Livongo CEO Glen Tullman,…
STAT+: Lawmakers grill UnitedHealth CEO on Change cyberattack. ‘Your company let the country down’
On Wednesday, UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty appeared before Congress to answer for what lawmakers called…
After private equity firms gobbled up wheelchair makers, users pay the price in long repair times
When Maureen Amirault purchased her first electric wheelchair in 2020, she had been living with…
STAT+: In a big reversal, Walmart to shut down medical clinics and online care
Walmart had grand ambitions, back in 2019, to grow a network of cheaper primary care…
STAT+: Akili to lay off 46% of its staff, explore strategic options amid sluggish sales
Akili Interactive on Tuesday announced it will lay off 46% of its staff and evaluate…
STAT+: FDA finalizes plan to regulate some lab-developed tests
The Food and Drug Administration will start actively regulating tests developed in laboratories, with some…
Philips will pay $1.1 billion to resolve U.S. lawsuits over breathing machines that expel debris
WASHINGTON — Medical device maker Philips said Monday it will pay $1.1 billion to settle…
STAT+: AI is becoming the exclusive province of academic medicine. A new initiative aims to change that
In Kingman, Ariz., a windswept city of 35,000 at the eastern edge of the Mojave…
STAT+: Generative AI is supposed to save doctors from burnout. New data show it needs more training
After stratospheric levels of hype, early evidence may be bringing generative artificial intelligence down to…
STAT+: HCA to expand the use of AI tool to automate clinical documentation in ER
HCA Healthcare, the largest for-profit hospital chain in the United States, is planning to expand…
STAT+: Telehealth startups see an opportunity in long-ignored, complex chronic diseases
If her neurologist moved to China, Lauren Stiles says she’d follow him there. “There’s so…
STAT+: Accreditation agencies take on telehealth with new virtual care standards
In the early days of the pandemic, as social distancing forced patients out of doctors’…
STAT+: Medicare official says breakthrough device reimbursement rule coming in early summer
WASHINGTON — A federal rule aiming to make reimbursement for breakthrough devices easier is slated…
STAT+: Microsoft is selling AI in health care, and helping to set its standards. Is that a problem?
For a company moving as quickly as possible to build artificial intelligence into everything —…
STAT+: The next frontier in data privacy? Your brain
Consumer neurotechnology is booming. You can buy a funky-looking headband for $500 on the internet…
Teladoc became a household name under Jason Gorevic. Investors wanted more
At the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in January, Teladoc CEO Jason Gorevic dismissed the growing…
STAT+: Hospital price transparency rules are seeding a new crop of health tech startups
Federal rules forcing hospitals and insurers to post rates for medical procedures have taken effect,…
STAT+: UnitedHealth skips hearing in the wake of Change cyberattack, triggering call for subpoena
In the first federal hearing focused on the massive cyberattack on Change Healthcare, lawmakers had…
STAT+: Cerebral to pay $7 million fine and limit health data use for ads under federal order
Telehealth company Cerebral will limit the consumer health data it uses for advertising purposes under…
STAT+: FTC cracks down on telehealth addiction service Monument for sharing health data
On Thursday, the Federal Trade Commission took action against alcohol addiction telehealth company Monument, affirming…