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Hospitals are testing AI to communicate with patients. They still don’t know how to talk to them about it
Health systems across the country are exploring blending artificial intelligence into their communication with patients,…
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Opinion: How predominantly white hospital leadership teams hurt care for people of color
Last year, my father, a Jamaican immigrant with Medicaid insurance, passed away from a heart…
STAT+: Fed up with exorbitant health costs, employers and workers are taking insurers to court
Companies, unions, and workers are at a breaking point over how much they pay for…
STAT+: Top Senate Republican signals interest in site-neutral reform for hospitals
WASHINGTON — A top Senate Republican signaled his interest in pursuing hospital payment reform to…
STAT+: Google strikes deal with Mayo Clinic to comb patient records using generative AI
Google will embed its generative AI technology into computer systems at Mayo Clinic and other…
Opinion: How the conversation about moral injury in health care is changing
In the new book “If I Betray These Words,” I tell the story, with Simon…
Opinion: When should hospitals require masks?
Is the pandemic over? On the one hand, Covid-19 is clearly still with us. In…
STAT+: UnitedHealth starts bidding war with $3.3 billion offer for Amedisys
There’s now a two-party showdown for one of the largest home health companies in the…
STAT+: Carbon Health is already using AI to write patient records
SAN FRANCISCO — Primary care tech startup Carbon Health is using artificial intelligence to listen…
Cross-border ‘twinning programs’ may reduce survival disparities for childhood leukemia
A few miles can mean a life or death difference to children with cancer, if…
After outcry, UnitedHealthcare softens prior authorization policy for colonoscopies
After weeks of protest from physician organizations and patients, UnitedHealthcare has put a controversial new…
Hospitals want to buy doctors’ happiness with Nuance’s AI scribe. What they’re paying varies
Microsoft-owned Nuance Communications sells its AI medical scribe platform to health care providers on a…
Opinion: More hospitals are offering child care. But they shouldn’t have to
Since the pandemic began, thousands of child care locations have closed, exacerbating an already acute…
STAT+: With Fat Joe concerts and Super Bowl ads, a cadre of billionaires is mounting an unorthodox campaign against hospitals
WASHINGTON — At a waterfront concert in one of this city’s swankiest neighborhoods, rappers Busta…
Opinion: How ‘screen and refer’ systems fail to help patients
We’ve all had the experience of a doctor or other health care worker staring at…
A deep dive on generative AI in health care, Pear sold for parts, and progress on stretchable skin
You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is…
What does generative AI mean for health care? We asked the experts
Health care companies are racing to incorporate generative AI tools into their product pipelines and…
ChatGPT in medicine: STAT answers readers’ burning questions about AI
Artificial intelligence is often described as a black box: an unknowable, mysterious force that operates…
Making sense of AI research in medicine, in one slide
BOSTON — Scientific journals have become something of a Mad Libs game for GPT: Artificial…
Opinion: Fix the rural physician shortage by expanding support for resident training
As the deans of the two public medical schools in Nevada, we are watching with…
STAT+: House panel takes first steps toward reining in hospitals with ‘site-neutral’ changes
WASHINGTON — A key House panel on Wednesday advanced several health care bills on Wednesday,…
STAT+: General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz bet on large language models for health care
OAKLAND, Calif. — In a rare partnership, heavyweight tech venture firms General Catalyst and Andreessen…
STAT+: Envision Healthcare files for bankruptcy
Physician staffing firm Envision Healthcare officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday, a move…
STAT+: Hospital-insurer tussle in Arizona puts care denials front and center
UnitedHealthcare and Phoenix Children’s Hospital are embroiled in a bitter contract dispute that would lock…
Ask STAT: What do you want to know about ChatGPT in medicine?
From medical note-taking to analyzing X-rays and mammograms, new artificial intelligence tools are swiftly gaining…
STAT+: Google is training its generative AI to analyze medical images — and talk to doctors about them
Google’s generative AI system proved it can answer medical exam questions. But now the company…
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Opinion: Health care coaches are the next big thing. They’re also completely unregulated
John, a hypothetical middle-aged man, is told at his job about a new workplace wellness…
Gail Wilensky on the Geisinger deal, the earnings bonanza, and medical credit cards proliferate
You’re reading the web version of Health Care Inc., STAT’s weekly newsletter following the flow…
STAT+: Geisinger board member: Local consolidation influenced Kaiser-Geisinger deal
A long-running flurry of hospital and medical group acquisitions in Pennsylvania — especially among the…
STAT+: 4 ways the health care system should shift its thinking on AI, according to experts
This week, the “Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton made news when he left Google and…
STAT+: Option Care takes over Amedisys in ‘perplexing’ $3.6 billion home care deal
Option Care Health is buying Amedisys in an all-stock merger valued at $3.6 billion, creating…
Opinion: Listen: Two medical residents debate their hospital’s unionization drive
In training to become a physician, medical residency can be a grueling period. Residents and…
Rise in suicide-related ED visits among youth raises larger questions around mental health care
Visits to the emergency department related to suicide among children and adults aged 6 to…
Hospitals that denied emergency abortion broke the law, feds say
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two hospitals that refused to provide an emergency abortion to a pregnant woman who…
Babies born to opioid users have shorter hospital stays with parental involvement: study
Babies born to opioid users had shorter hospital stays and needed less medication when their…
STAT+: New mega-deal highlights Geisinger’s fall, and raises concerns about where Kaiser is going next
In 2009, when President Barack Obama was touring the country and ginning up support for…
Opinion: There’s a surprisingly easy way to avoid a huge number of major amputations
More than 400 Americans undergo major amputation of a leg, either above or below the…
A research team airs the messy truth about AI in medicine — and gives hospitals a guide to fix it
In public, hospitals rave about artificial intelligence. They trumpet the technology in press releases, plaster…
STAT+: Kaiser Permanente, Geisinger to merge into national health system
Kaiser Permanente and Geisinger have agreed to combine into a new national not-for-profit system that…
Telehealth companies that provide abortion pills grapple with regulatory uncertainty
You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is…
STAT+: How a small hospital in Nebraska has thrived through the pandemic
Great Plains Health is a small hospital system in a part of Nebraska surrounded by…
STAT+: HCA bags big first quarter as patient volumes soar
Patient volumes are back in a big way, at least for the country’s largest for-profit…
Opinion: I’m a medical resident. I want to pause the drive to unionize hospital trainees
Medicine is a calling. But far too often, trainees — residents and fellows — at…
Opinion: I’m a medical resident. Here’s why I think my hospital should unionize
As a third-year neurology resident at Mass General Brigham, I started my career at the…
STAT+: FTC countersues HCA, Louisiana hospital system to stop acquisitions
The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sued two hospital systems, HCA Healthcare and LCMC Health,…
STAT+: HCA, Louisiana hospital system sue FTC over review of hospital deal
HCA Healthcare and LCMC Health each sued the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice…
STAT+: Congress targets reducing hospital outpatient payments in new bills
WASHINGTON — House Republicans are floating several draft bills that would significantly affect the hospital…
STAT+: Amazon strikes partnership with 3M to advance conversational AI in medicine
Health care companies are joining forces with big tech players as they race to integrate…
Opinion: Rural hospitals are closing labor and delivery services. Babies’ lives are in jeopardy
A hospital in Idaho recently announced it will shutter its labor and delivery services due…
STAT+: UnitedHealth says medical costs aren’t soaring. The reality is murkier
Executives at UnitedHealth Group hinted Friday that hospitalizations are not rising and that people are…