Giving blood thinners to severely ill Covid-19 patients is gaining ground
Treating Covid-19 patients with medicines to prevent blood clots might help reduce deaths in patients…
Category: hospitals
Opinion: Lifesaving ventilators will sit unused without a national data-sharing effort
In Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s book “Poverty and Famines,” he argues that famines arise not…
Opinion: Striking down DACA would eliminate thousands of health care workers, thwarting America’s pandemic response
The health care community has a responsibility to anticipate worst-case scenarios and develop response plans…
Doctors anticipate patient requests for experimental remdesivir before all the evidence comes in
Before Wednesday’s hopeful news about the experimental antiviral remdesivir broke, doctors treating patients hospitalized for…
Opinion: Public-private partnerships for contact tracing can help stop Covid-19
As the biomedical community works to develop treatments and vaccines for Covid-19, a national strategy…
Hospitals are using AI to predict the decline of Covid-19 patients — before knowing it works
Dozens of hospitals across the country are using an artificial intelligence system created by Epic,…
STAT Plus: Major health-record company drops opposition to federal data-sharing rule
After months of fierce opposition, the electronic health record company Epic said Thursday it is…
Opinion: Our hospital’s community management strategy for Covid-19 works. Yours can, too
The Covid-19 pandemic is overwhelming hospital and emergency response systems in the U.S., much as…
For respiratory therapists on Covid-19 wards, a catheter shortage increases work — and risk
This is one in a series of reports from hospitals responding to the Covid-19 pandemic….
Opinion: The view from two residents inside an ICU’s pandemic crew: Covid brain, relentless sorrow, and kindness in calamity
“Welcome to the Covid crew,” read the email we received in mid-March. With that quick…
Transplants plummet as overwhelmed hospitals focus on the coronavirus
Fred Banks apologizes for pausing mid-sentence to catch his breath. “I’m on oxygen 24/7,” explains…
Opinion: You are waiting for the surge
The death toll from the march of Covid-19 through New York City soars past 10,000….
Who gets the last ventilator? Facing the coronavirus, a hospital ponders the unthinkable
This is one in a series of reports from hospitals responding to the Covid-19 pandemic….
As Covid-19 surges among San Francisco’s homeless, doctors face difficult choices
SAN FRANCISCO — As a doctor at San Francisco’s safety net hospital, Katie Brooks takes…
Who gets hospitalized for Covid-19? Report shows differences by race and sex
The first federal report on who requires hospital care for Covid-19 in the U.S. has…
With ventilators running out, doctors say the machines are overused for Covid-19
Even as hospitals and governors raise the alarm about a shortage of ventilators, some critical…
Discovery of racial bias in health care AI wins STAT Madness ‘Editors’ Pick’
Although “garbage in, garbage out” has been a software truism for more than half a…
A new Covid-19 problem: Shortages of medicines needed for placing patients on ventilators
On top of the overwhelming shortages of medical equipment required to combat Covid-19, there are…
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Opinion: Hospitalized adults need their caregivers — they aren’t visitors
Social distancing, self-isolation, quarantine: These are among the essential public health interventions for the Covid-19…
Opinion: Abandoned by U.S. leaders, the only Covid-19 protection I can count on in my emergency department is trust
I step through the sliding glass doors of my hospital’s emergency department and immediately look…
With masks dwindling, a hospital’s Covid-19 crisis team searches for a way out
This is one in a series of reports from hospitals responding to the Covid-19 pandemic….
Opinion: If Covid-19 will peak in June, teaching hospitals should consider delaying the start of new medical residents
Some projections place the peak of Covid-19 infections in the U.S. between May and June….
Tech companies are crucial players in the coronavirus response. Are they contributing what’s most needed?
A version of this story appeared in STAT’s Health Tech newsletter. Click here to subscribe….
Opinion: In a pandemic, hospital staffers need to get better at hand-washing
After visiting Ellis Island in 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt noted the lack of hand-washing by…
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Hospitals turn to remote monitoring tools to free up beds for the sickest coronavirus patients
Desperate to free up beds for only the sickest Covid-19 patients, hospitals nationwide are weighing…
A sports medicine office morphs into a coronavirus clinic, braced for the onslaught
First in a series of reports from hospitals responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. The doctor…
Desperate for Covid-19 answers, U.S. doctors turn to colleagues in China
Even as the Covid-19 outbreak has already overwhelmed some U.S. hospitals, in many cities anxious…
Listen: Trump’s coronavirus pivot, life inside the ICU, drug development in a pandemic
Why did the U.S. change its tune on coronavirus? What’s it like to be an…
‘It’s been kind of rough’: At the epicenter of the pandemic, a Seattle ICU nurse treats two patients at a time
Stephanie Bandyk is on the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic: A registered nurse who…
Frustrated and afraid about protective gear shortages, health workers are scouring for masks on their own
Health care workers across the country tell STAT they are grappling with new hospital restrictions…
Surge in patients overwhelms telehealth services amid coronavirus pandemic
Telehealth services are sagging under the weight of an unprecedented surge in patients as hospitals…
Hospital in Boston will be converted into Covid-19 treatment center
A Texas-based health care system announced Tuesday that it would convert one of its hospitals…
Coronavirus model shows individual hospitals what to expect in the coming weeks
Spurred by reports of doctors in Italy rationing ventilators for coronavirus patients and of overwhelmed…
Opinion: Medical students can help combat Covid-19. Don’t send them home
Last week, while seeing a patient in the emergency department of Stanford Hospital, I witnessed…
Hospital workers across the U.S. present sharply different pictures of their preparedness for the coronavirus
U.S. hospitals are bracing for an onslaught of patients sickened by the new coronavirus, shoring…
Opinion: What does the coronavirus mean for the U.S. health care system? Some simple math offers alarming answers
Much of the current discourse on — and dismissal of — the Covid-19 outbreak focuses…
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…
How the psychology of a $4.99 price tag might influence who undergoes heart surgery
Health economists aren’t generally known for their humor. There’s something about Medicaid that’s just deeply…
STAT Plus: After a new version of a decades-old drug gets orphan status, the price suddenly skyrockets
For years, hospitals and clinics have used an injectable medicine called dehydrated alcohol to treat…
‘We need everyone for this’: U.S. hospitals harnessing resources to brace for any spike in coronavirus cases
When the H1N1 flu began spreading a decade ago, U.S. hospitals were flooded with patients….
Opinion: In hospitals, housekeepers are truly the ‘keepers of the house’
Malcolm cleans patient rooms and offices in the large medical center where we both work…
Opinion: Clinician-led quality improvements can transform a hospital’s care
In hospitals across the country, doctors and nurses often feel like small cogs in very…
STAT Plus: Civica Rx teams with Blue Cross Blue Shield to widen its alternative market for generics
In its latest bid to rework the marketplace for generic drugs, the Civica Rx nonprofit…
Opinion: Using states as living laboratories to solve surprise medical billing
Although surprise billing has been the subject of vigorous debate in federal and state legislatures,…
Opinion: 3 legal challenges could derail out-of-network surprise medical bills
Surprise medical bills have become the bane of many Americans who are seen in emergency…
Opinion: Lost, and sometimes found, in the emergency department at Christmas
Last Christmas, I traded my cozy bed for a shift working in my hospital’s accident…
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…
My baby needed expensive intensive care, but my insurer was taking a long weekend. How can this be?
On Thanksgiving evening my baby spiked a high fever. By Friday morning her little head…
STAT Plus: More hospital drug spending is going toward cancer immunotherapies
Amid intense scrutiny over prescription drug costs, a new analysis finds some hospitals are spending…