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NaviHealth built a billion-dollar business using AI to scrutinize care in Medicare Advantage. Now, one of its first funders is publicly bashing the company it once backed. → Read More
An algorithm, not a doctor, predicted a rapid recovery for Frances Walter, an 85-year-old Wisconsin woman with a shattered left shoulder and an allergy to → Read More
Stephen Gillett's breakthrough executive job, far from the halls of science or medicine, was at Starbucks. Now, he finds himself at the helm of Verily's effort to transform health care with technology. → Read More
A new antidepressant study may hold clues about the future direction of Verily, the high-profile Alphabet spinout. → Read More
“This tool is giving you a heads-up that this little thing you see is actually going to be a tumor,” said Robert Smith of the American Cancer Society. → Read More
Verily plans to lean on its chronic disease care spinout Onduo as it looks to build a door into the lucrative world of running research. → Read More
“We don’t have the tools today to understand whether machine learning algorithms and these new technologies being deployed are good or bad for patients,” said Mayo Clinic's John Halamka. → Read More
Google researchers trained an AI model to predict potentially deadly kidney damage using data from veterans. New research makes clear it's difficult to get the model to work as well on women as it does on men. → Read More
"It’s been stories about large drug price increases that have driven the national conversation around drug pricing, so loss of this information is a net loss for the public.” → Read More
"The patient has to have a larger voice in what’s happening with these types of decisions," the CEO of Merative — a new company built using datasets bought from IBM Watson Health — told STAT. → Read More
Mile Bluff Medical Center is a long way from Silicon Valley. But the tiny Wisconsin hospital is about to help launch Google’s next big experiment in medicine. → Read More
Microsoft and Nuance are selling an AI tool that makes doctors' lives easier by generating appointment notes. Is the data-sharing it requires a dealbreaker? → Read More
Data sharing is essential to developing everything from medicines to artificial intelligence-based tools, but often ulterior commercial motives corrupt it. → Read More
Epic's overhaul of its sepsis algorithm is a case study in the challenges of ensuring that AI protects patients rather than endangering them. → Read More
No more long delays. No more fax machines. No more exorbitant charges for printed pages. Under a new federal law, you can now get your health information digitally. → Read More
Here's STAT's health tech tracker for the fourth quarter, featuring 17 key industry events and milestones to watch. → Read More
Exclusive: Epic has revamped its widely criticized sepsis prediction model in a bid to improve its accuracy, according to documents obtained by STAT. → Read More
Researchers and regulatory experts are sharply divided on whether the FDA's new guidance on AI tools marks a much-needed change, or a dramatic overreach. → Read More
In new guidance, the FDA specified that AI tools designed to warn providers about sepsis should come under regulatory review. Health software vendors have been selling such tools for years without obtaining clearance. → Read More
For years, the health data company IQVIA has quietly purchased detailed information on tens of millions of Americans from the credit reporting company Experian. → Read More