STAT+: Health care industry fights back against crackdowns on health data tracking
Wherever you go on the internet, trackers follow. These ubiquitous bits of code, invisibly embedded…
Category: Health Tech
STAT+: Apple pauses sales of latest watches in the US after ITC decision
Apple is temporarily pulling certain Apple Watches from the U.S. market to comply with an…
STAT+: New Jersey’s telehealth restrictions cut off access to lifesaving care, lawsuit alleges
Since states started rolling back pandemic-inspired flexibilities that allowed physicians to easily practice telehealth across…
STAT+: Amputees have better balance, less pain after electrical stimulation, study finds
For years, Lauren Gavron relied on oxycodone to quiet the pain in her missing lower…
Health records don’t always show when patients are dead. One researcher is trying to change that
Health professor Neil Wenger was deep into a years-long study on seriously ill primary care…
STAT+: Bankrupt Pear’s addiction treatments acquired by virtual care company
Half a year after selling its assets at bankruptcy auction, Pear Therapeutics’ most significant digital…
STAT+: New federal rules demand transparency into AI models used in health decisions
Federal health technology regulators on Wednesday finalized new rules to force software vendors to disclose…
STAT+: Humana used algorithm in ‘fraudulent scheme’ to deny care to Medicare Advantage patients, lawsuit alleges
Medicare Advantage beneficiaries on Tuesday filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the health insurance giant…
STAT+: GE HealthCare CEO named chair of medical device lobby AdvaMed’s new imaging division
AdvaMed named Peter Arduini, CEO of GE HealthCare, chair of its board of directors on…
STAT+: NEJM aims to hold AI to account with new publication
One of the most prestigious names in medical publishing is going all in on artificial…
Morning Rounds: 3D-printed organs, antimicrobial resistance in Ukraine, and other major health stories of the day
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Opinion: STAT+: Health care AI requires a new Hippocratic oath
It was no surprise when the Biden administration recently outlined in a broad executive order…
In pigs, researchers show ultrasound could be used for 3D printing inside the body
Imagine getting surgery without ever being cut open. Researchers at Duke University and Harvard Medical…
STAT+: Medtronic cancels $738 million acquisition of diabetes tech company EOFlow
Medtronic is no longer buying EOFlow, a Korean maker of wearable insulin pumps. The news…
Proposal to protect abortion patients’ records faces pushback from Epic, UnitedHealth
At a time when abortion access can vary widely across the U.S., many reproductive health…
ChatGPT doesn’t know much about drugs, Hims & Hers enters weight-loss market
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STAT Morning Rounds: The health news you need to read today
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STAT+: Patients wants test results now, and radiologists need time to explain. Can they meet in the middle?
One of the hardest parts about getting an X-ray or a CT scan is the…
STAT+: Radiology captures the tension between AI’s potential and concern for patients
Radiology has long led the way in the application of artificial intelligence in medicine. More…
Takeda, Janssen join wearable maker to measure scratching, and other health tech news
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STAT+: Mayo Clinic to spend $5 billion on tech-heavy redesign of its Minnesota campus
Mayo Clinic will spend $5 billion to reinvent its flagship medical campus in Rochester, Minn.,…
STAT+: Health tech startups warn that overregulating AI could hamper innovation
Entrepreneurs across the country desperate to bring the power of AI into health care are…
How the shakeup at OpenAI underscores the need for AI standards in health care
The leadership turmoil within OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, is triggering calls for stepped-up efforts…
STAT+: How the CEO of the largest medical device accelerator molds medtech startups
If Paul Grand weren’t the CEO of MedTech Innovator, the largest medical device accelerator in…
STAT+: Hospitals put tech spending on a tight leash, raise the bar for pilots
Health systems whose budgets were squeezed dry during the pandemic are creeping back into the…
STAT+: FDA approves Medtronic high blood pressure device despite a negative advisory panel vote
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a Medtronic device to lower blood pressure, the…
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STAT+: A digital pill shows early promise in detecting opioid overdose, sleep apnea
Gathering health data remotely is a pain. Forgetting to slip on a wearable is easy,…
Opinion: We tried to quantify how harmful hospital ransomware attacks are for patients. Here’s what we found
This article is part of a partnership between First Opinion and Tradeoffs, a nonprofit news organization…
STAT+: Hospitals say violence against health workers is surging. Tech companies are stepping in to help
One day in early 2020, just weeks before Philadelphia entered lockdown, Thomas Jefferson University’s public…
STAT+: UnitedHealth faces class-action lawsuit over algorithmic care denials in Medicare Advantage plans
A class-action lawsuit was filed Tuesday against UnitedHealth Group and a subsidiary alleging that they…
STAT+: UnitedHealth pushed employees to follow an algorithm to cut off Medicare patients’ rehab care
The nation’s largest health insurance company pressured its medical staff to cut off payments for…
NYU radiologists tackle the challenge of making MRI machines less expensive
How many radiologists does it take to build a working MRI from scratch? New York…
STAT+: Patients loved Carbon Health’s diabetes program. That couldn’t save it
A diabetes diagnosis was not what Jason had in mind when he set out on…
STAT+: What Amazon Prime’s new One Medical offering reveals about the future of health care
Amazon Prime members have a new offer in addition to the usual delivery and streaming…
Apple and Anthem’s experimental asthma app shows promising results but an uncertain future
Apple has for years promised that its devices can help people live healthier, but it…
Opinion: Digital health startups need more doctor CEOs
In my decade living in Silicon Valley as a digital health journalist and now an…
STAT+: FDA approves high blood pressure device from ReCor Medical
The Food and Drug Administration approved a surgical system used to reduce blood pressure from…
STAT+: FTC’s Lina Khan makes a stop at Y Combinator, how telehealth helps rural America
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STAT+: Remote patient monitoring helped manage hypertension better, but at a higher cost
During the pandemic, in search of tools to keep patients healthy and virus-free, doctors turned…
Opinion: STAT+: The PATCH Act’s approach to securing medical devices actually gives malicious actors a blueprint
In August 2013, the FDA made news when it issued cybersecurity guidance for medical devices….
Experts talk detecting disease from voice biomarkers with AI, privacy concerns
Over the past few years, researchers have started using AI to capture signals from our…
STAT+: Data backing prescription digital therapeutics found lacking in rigor, inclusivity
The fast-evolving world of digital therapeutics offers the promise of lowering barriers to accessing health…
In experiment, electrical stimulation of the spinal cord helps a patient with Parkinson’s to walk
An experimental treatment that delivers an electrical current to the spinal cord appeared to notably…
Inari Medical to buy last-line amputation prevention company LimFlow
Vascular device maker Inari Medical announced plans to buy LimFlow, a company selling a last-line…
Treating Rural America: The telehealth solution
There is a persistent shortage of primary care doctors in the rural United States. Specialists,…
With a new center, All of Us tackles health data silos to power precision medicine
Over the past five years, two unique federal efforts have collected the health records of…
STAT+: Venture capitalists want to own hospitals. Can they do better than private equity?
General Catalyst’s plan to take over a hospital in the coming months could be the…
STAT+: DeepMind touts AlphaFold’s new skills as protein-folding AI models face off
On Tuesday, Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs announced a significant progress update on the next…
STAT+: White House AI order calls for crackdown on abuses, harms in health care
President Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence amounts to a giant course correction in health…
In Gaza, the Glia Project 3D prints tourniquets and stethoscopes
Tarek Loubani looked around at his fellow doctors at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City…