Measuring blood sugar in real time is a game changer for patients — and a health tech success story
Kylene Redmond and Deb Foerster both are converts to their continuous glucose monitors, quarter-size devices…
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There’s a gold rush in health tech. Here’s how the smart money stays ahead
Investors are pouring into the health tech sector, with venture funding roughly doubling in 2020….
How Cityblock Health is tapping into technology to better care for Medicaid patients
Health tech startup Cityblock Health, with its mission of delivering stepped-up primary care to Medicaid…
STAT+: ‘More Amazon and less pharmacy’: one exec on the company’s strategy for prescription drugs
Amazon’s objectives for its nascent pharmacy business are straightforward: “better selection, better convenience, and better…
STAT+: Watch: Former Google CEO Schmidt opens up on health data privacy and the future of tech in medicine
In a wide-ranging and forthcoming interview, Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO who helped steer…
Amazon, Salesforce execs weigh in on how tech can help with Covid — and how it can’t
For all the progress on Covid-19, we are still far from a post-pandemic world. “If…
Former Google CEO Schmidt says AI ‘will have its biggest impact’ in health care
For the myriad applications of artificial intelligence, Eric Schmidt, the onetime Google CEO, sees one…
Illumina CEO insists GRAIL merger will be good for competition, and ultimately, patients
Before the pandemic, most people had never heard of Illumina, the California-based sequencing behemoth whose…
How digital pharmacies can expand access to specialized care
Even the most aggressive proponents of telehealth must concede that while technology can open the…
From big tech to small tech: A health care visionary pushes for a patient-centric approach to technology
Each step in the career of Ashwini Zenooz is less comfortable than the last. She…
AI could help rid health care of biases. It also might make them worse
Hospitals and health care companies are increasingly tapping experimental artificial intelligence tools to improve medical…
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…
Doctors are increasingly using remote monitoring technology, raising questions about inclusivity and usability
Remote monitoring technologies let doctors keep tabs on how you’re doing, even when you’re nowhere…
23andMe’s next challenge: ensuring its customers can get drugs developed with their data
23andme has long been known as a consumer genetic testing unicorn. But CEO Anne Wojcicki…