With the pandemic sidelining routine care, a trade group urges the government to pay for digital therapeutics
A prominent trade group is calling on the federal government to cover digital health tools…
Category: medical technology
After 9/11, we gave up privacy for security. Will we make the same trade-off after Covid-19?
In a span of weeks, the novel coronavirus has turned the nation’s roiling health privacy…
Coronavirus-related layoffs hit health tech startups
With the economy in freefall amid the coronavirus pandemic, some health tech startups have started…
MIT’s Koch Institute wins STAT Madness with technology to see tiny ovarian tumors
Carbon nanotubes rule. In this year’s STAT Madness, a bracket-style competition to honor the best…
STAT Plus: Digital health startups scored a critical cash infusion at the start of this year
As much of the world prepares for the possibility of a coronavirus-driven recession, a new…
Covid-19 spreads too fast for traditional contact tracing. New digital tools could help
Every strategy for releasing Covid-19’s vise-grip on daily life starts with identifying cases and tracing…
Tech companies are stepping up in the coronavirus pandemic response. Here’s how they’re dedicating resources
Tech giants are stepping up to the plate to play a part in the coronavirus…
‘We’re racing against the clock:’ Researchers test wearables as an early warning system for Covid-19
Researchers at two prominent California universities launched ambitious new studies this week to test whether…
STAT Plus: Digital therapy for chronic insomnia gains FDA signoff
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized the use of a digital product that…
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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…
Surge in patients overwhelms telehealth services amid coronavirus pandemic
Telehealth services are sagging under the weight of an unprecedented surge in patients as hospitals…
Trump lifts restrictions on telehealth services for seniors in hopes of limiting coronavirus spread
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday announced an unprecedented expansion of telehealth services for…
STAT Plus: Trump official behind health data rules has a message for privacy critics: Try helping patients, instead of your bottom line
For the past year, Don Rucker has been in the middle of one of the…
Rollout of Verily coronavirus triage tool Monday will be more limited than Trump seemed to suggest
Verily, the Google spinout focused on life sciences, on Monday will launch an online screening…
STAT Plus: Hospitals turn to big tech companies to store and analyze their data — leaving patients in the dark on privacy protections
The nation’s largest hospital systems are rapidly shifting sensitive health data into cloud storage platforms…
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…
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…
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…
Opinion: Digital therapeutics vs. digital care: defining the landscape
The conversations I had at this year’s J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference were a microcosm of…
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…
Opinion: 10 reasons why health care startups fail
In our roles at MedTech Innovator, a global accelerator for medtech startups, we’ve worked with…
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…
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: 4 ways Walmart is hoping its retail savvy can overhaul the health care system
Walmart made waves in September when it announced an ambitious plan to create new, freestanding…
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…
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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: 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…
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,…
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…