‘Slippery slope territory’: Health officials propose waiving regulatory review of medical AI tools
Days before leaving office, President Trump’s top health official is proposing to permanently exempt from…
Category: medical technology
Two ways Fitbit could boost Google’s health ambitions
Google’s newly-finalized purchase of Fitbit is poised to provide the tech giant with a potentially…
Vaccine registration technology is failing. Here’s how the Biden administration could fix it
The crashes of online vaccine scheduling systems have become a sad symbol of how technology…
STAT+: What comes after the telehealth boom? Hybrid care models are drawing investor interest
Buoyed by the pandemic, 2020 was undoubtedly the year that telehealth turned the corner to…
STAT+: ‘This is the foundation’: Health tech leaders discuss access, inequity, and community at CES
For all the focus on digital health at the Consumer Electronics Show for the past…
STAT+: 4 steps for AI developers to build trust in their clinical tools
As health systems deploy new tools that predict patients’ risk of serious medical outcomes, many…
Opinion: Using technology to help heal health care disparities
For the first time in its 54-year history, CES (formerly known as the Consumer Electronics…
Talkspace to go public in $1.4 billion SPAC deal
In a sign of the red-hot market for telemental health care, Talkspace announced Wednesday it…
STAT+: Health tech experts explain why trust is crucial for clinical AI tools
It was a slight departure from the usual Consumer Electronics Show panel: Rather than touting…
Opinion: To make Covid-19 exposure apps work, integrate them with existing popular apps like Facebook
The beginning of the end of the Covid-19 pandemic may be at hand in the…
STAT+: ‘What was left for Haven?’: How Amazon’s health ambitions devoured Haven’s plans
It’s tempting to see Haven as another casualty of entrenched interests in American medicine. But…
STAT+: Inside the collapse of a disrupter: How Haven’s high hopes of redefining health care came to a crashing halt
The dissolution of Haven marks one of the most stunning collapses in modern health care…
Haven, ambitious health venture backed by Amazon, to shut down
After a tumultuous three years marked by halting progress and high rates of employee turnover,…
STAT+: The health tech tracker for the first quarter: 13 important events to watch
It will be a quarter unlike any other in recent memory for the health tech…
STAT+: 3 key questions for the health tech industry in 2021
Fueled by a seemingly endless influx of cash, technology has influenced the practice of medicine…
STAT+: Health tech’s newest unicorn is running toward Medicaid patients long marginalized in medicine
It has become a business imperative in American medicine to marginalize patients on Medicaid. Their…
3 lessons from Stanford’s Covid-19 vaccine algorithm debacle
Stanford found itself in hot water last week after deploying a faulty Covid-19 vaccine distribution…
STAT+: ‘It’s really on them to learn’: How the rapid rollout of AI tools has fueled frustration among clinicians
Hospice nurse Deborah Carlson had been hesitant to embrace the artificial intelligence tool her health…
After experts criticized its approach, Facebook overhauls its Covid-19 misinformation policy
Facebook has overhauled its approach to harmful Covid-19 health misinformation, announcing major changes that would…
Early data suggest wearables can catch some cases of Covid-19 before symptoms emerge
The results of several ambitious studies testing wearables as early predictors of for Covid-19 are…
STAT+: Marking a new rivalry with Apple, Google launches its own health studies app
Google made a major move into health research on Wednesday, unveiling a new smartphone app…
CommonHealth, the Android answer to Apple health records, expands to 230 health systems
A cohort of researchers and developers announced Friday that the Android app CommonHealth — which…
STAT+: Steered by a former Uber Health exec, a new startup aims to bridge in-home care and telemedicine
Telemedicine has become a lifeline during the Covid-19 pandemic, but it is not enough help…
STAT+: Covid-19 vaccines will arrive before the data sharing technology that could help track them
Scientists have produced Covid-19 vaccines in record time. But the digital connectivity needed to closely…
DeepMind’s protein-folding AI stuns with a solution to one of biology’s biggest challenges
At the start of a biennial contest to predict the structure of proteins, the expectations…
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STAT+: How Amazon Pharmacy could ramp up pressure on the prescription drug industry
The launch of Amazon Pharmacy on Tuesday sent shockwaves through the pharmacy pipeline, with industry…
Health systems are using AI to predict severe Covid-19 cases. But limited data could produce unreliable results
As the United States braces for a bleak winter, hospital systems across the country are…
STAT+: Amazon, expanding its growing health empire, launches Amazon Pharmacy
Amazon added new territory to its burgeoning health care empire on Tuesday, launching Amazon Pharmacy,…
STAT Plus: Telehealth startup Ro expands partnership with Pfizer to provide generic drugs
Telehealth startup Ro is expanding its partnership with pharma giant Pfizer’s generics arm to offer…
STAT Plus: The health tech tracker for the fourth quarter: 14 pivotal industry events to watch
Welcome to STAT’s Health Tech Tracker, a ledger of all the major data readouts, product…
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As insurers move this week to stop waiving telehealth copays, patients may have to pay more for virtual care
Starting Oct. 1, several private health insurers will no longer fully pay for virtual visits…
STAT Plus: Medical AI systems are disproportionately built with data from just three states, new research finds
Late last year, Stanford University researcher Amit Kaushal and a collaborator noticed something striking while…
STAT Plus: Teladoc’s tussle with Amwell raises questions about defining property rights in digital health
The field of health tech is facing a big question: Can it establish strong patent…
When AI is the opposite of sinister: An MIT researcher is held up as model of how algorithms can benefit humanity
In June, when MIT artificial intelligence researcher Regina Barzilay went to Massachusetts General Hospital for…
STAT Plus: In another health bet, Amazon expands virtual care program for employees
Amazon is expanding a virtual health care initiative for employees called Amazon Care on Tuesday…
STAT Plus: Teladoc accuses Amwell of infringing on its telehealth patents
Telehealth provider Teladoc last week accused Amwell of infringing on its patents and demanded that…
STAT Plus: 5 takeaways from venture capital’s growing focus on mental health
Research suggests that only half of the tens of millions of people in the U.S….
STAT Plus: Amwell rides IPO wave with expanded stock sale
Taking advantage of a pickup in demand for new stocks, American Well Corp. expanded its…
Remote monitoring is rapidly growing — and a new class of patient-consumer is driving the shift
A cardiac patient in Carlsbad sends their doctor in San Francisco a readout of their…
STAT Plus: Venture capitalist donates BrainGate, brain-machine interface company, to Tufts University
For more than a decade, scientist and entrepreneur Jeff Stibel’s company BrainGate has been developing…
How Lyft’s growing medical business is trying to close gaps in health care access
When Megan Callahan was weighing whether to join Lyft’s burgeoning health care business two years…
As health tech flourished, Teladoc and Livongo saw an opportunity to ‘accelerate,’ executives say
It took a lot of late-night and early-morning Zoom calls plus some socially distanced in-person…
Listen: AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine problem, charged coronavirus politics, and a recap of STAT’s Health Tech Summit
Is AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine in jeopardy? Why can’t politicians and scientists in Washington get along?…
STAT Plus: Is the Covid-19 pandemic a tipping point for digital health?
Covid-19 may turn out to be digital health’s tipping point, two Silicon Valley venture capitalists…
STAT Plus: Dan Trigub, head of Uber Health, is leaving to launch a health care startup
Dan Trigub, who for the last two years has led Uber Health, is leaving the…
STAT Plus: Biofourmis raises $100 million for remote patient monitoring tools
Biofourmis, a Boston startup that makes technology to remotely monitor patients with chronic conditions and…
STAT Health Tech: Google’s government contract to use AI in cancer diagnosis & new data on virtual diabetes coaching
A version of this digest first appeared in the weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter. To…
STAT Plus: What we learned about the business of telemedicine from Amwell and GoodRx’s IPO filings
Last week, two virtual care providers filed paperwork to go public — offering an unprecedented…
STAT Plus: Nearly a year since opening its doors, here’s how Verily’s addiction medicine campus is taking shape
Verily drew widespread praise last year when it announced an “ambitious endeavor” to combat the…
Elon Musk’s Neuralink unveils prototype of brain implants — and looks toward clinical trials
Elon Musk on Friday unveiled a coin-sized prototype of a brain implant developed by his…