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Webinar: From computer to clinic: The challenges of implementing artificial intelligence in practice

By Casey Ross

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Health apps collecting sensitive data need more transparent terms of service, law experts argue

By Shraddha Chakradhar

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For homebound people and their distant caregivers, smarter speakers to keep track of their health

By Hiawatha Bray — Boston Globe

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FDA approves AI-based software that helps doctors take ultrasound pictures of the heart

By Matthew Herper

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Big Tech aimed to disrupt health care. Big Retail may be better positioned to do so

By Erin Brodwin

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New ‘real world evidence’ company leverages medical societies to produce data for pharma

By Matthew Herper

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Chatbots are screening for the new coronavirus — and turning up cases of the flu

By Rebecca Robbins and Erin Brodwin

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This VC firm once pledged to never invest in health care. Now it’s launching its third life sciences fund

By Erin Brodwin

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‘It’s very easy to get starry-eyed about AI’: Experts offer warnings on digital disruption in health care

By Elizabeth Cooney

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Medical data startup Syapse cuts 10% of workforce as it prioritizes data analytics and insights

By Rebecca Robbins

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In coronavirus response, AI is becoming a useful tool in a global outbreak, data experts say

By Casey Ross

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Prosecutors identified ‘Pharma Co. X’ as central to alleged opioid kickback scheme. Was it Purdue?

By Andrew Joseph

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These 10 startups acquired by Alphabet reveal a health care play centered on surveillance

By Erin Brodwin

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Amid a competitor’s struggles, a startup with a fraction of its funding takes on ‘digital pills’

By Rebecca Robbins

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Verily’s top health leaders: We’re ‘trying to solve problems that many of us have lived’

By Erin Brodwin and Matthew Herper

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Will the FDA give the go-ahead to a prescription video game? The wait goes on, as new data come in

By Rebecca Robbins

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Pfizer’s big data exec on pharma’s ‘arms race’ to partner with companies like Fitbit, 23AndMe, and others

By Megan Thielking

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Health Tech

This CEO wants to make telehealth more than ‘an exercise in convenience’

By Erin Brodwin

Biotech

How swallowing a star might keep you from missing a dose of medicine

By Jonathan Saltzman — Boston Globe

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Verily tangos at JPM with a health tech partner — and steps on a few toes

By Erin Brodwin

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A forerunner in ‘smart pills’ adopts a new tack as key pharma partnership unravels

By Rebecca Robbins

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Eyeing more data, Livongo will integrate continuous glucose monitor into diabetes coaching program

By Rebecca Robbins

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Health Tech

Facebook’s new tool promotes preventive health. But the company can’t tell if it’s working

By Megan Thielking and Erin Brodwin

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Apple came to the world’s biggest tech conference for the first time in 28 years. It barely talked about health

By Erin Brodwin

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At CES, digital health gadgets gave me a detailed accounting of my flaws and failures

By Megan Thielking

Health Tech

A Q&A with FDA’s Amy Abernethy on how the agency is grappling with digital health regulation

By Megan Thielking

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Pear Therapeutics licenses voice biomarkers for dementia and psychiatric disorders

By Casey Ross

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Google AI tool can pinpoint breast cancer better than clinicians, new study suggests

By Erin Brodwin

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