Health Tech

The latest on how tech giants and startups are trying to disrupt the delivery of health care and the development of drugs.

AI palliative care
Health Tech

An experiment in end-of-life care: Tapping AI’s cold calculus to nudge the most human of conversations

By Rebecca Robbins

Care19 app
Health Tech

An app for football fans became a digital contact tracing tool — and could be a litmus test for Covid-19 technology

By Erin Brodwin

endeavor new
Health Tech

Can a prescription video game actually make money? Akili is about to find out

By Rebecca Robbins

Digital pill illustration part deux
Health Tech

Smart pill maker Proteus files for bankruptcy, reveals it has held acquisition talks with Otsuka

By Rebecca Robbins

Boy holding up Endeavor
Health Tech

In a landmark decision, FDA greenlights a video game for kids with ADHD

By Rebecca Robbins

stethoscope & tablet on table
Health Tech

Telehealth is a ‘silver lining’ of the pandemic, but implementing it permanently won’t be easy

By Casey Ross

b&w contact tracing
Health Tech

Can location data capture how well the Covid-19 response is working? A joint effort aims to find out

By Erin Brodwin

STAT Plus Conversations

‘I can’t imagine going back’: Medicare leader calls for expanded telehealth access after Covid-19

By Casey Ross

Health Tech

Meet STACI: your interactive guide to the rapid advances of AI in health care

By Dominic Smith and Casey Ross

Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan
Health Tech

In unusual revolt, scientists funded by Mark Zuckerberg criticize Facebook’s inaction on President Trump’s posts

By Rebecca Robbins

NYC CITYSCAPE
Health Tech

Your boss wants you to take a Covid-19 test and track your symptoms. There’s software for that

By Rebecca Robbins

Patient Data and hospitals
Health Tech

At Mayo Clinic, sharing patient data with companies fuels AI innovation — and concerns about consent

By Casey Ross

Franklin faces
Health Tech

Despite economic downturn, big names in health tech are drawing in significant funding

By Erin Brodwin

Chest X-Ray pneumonia
Health Tech

AI systems are worse at diagnosing disease when training data is skewed by sex

By Rebecca Robbins

doc with patient
Health Tech

AI startup transcribes and annotates doctor visits for patients

By Casey Ross

Health Tech

Digital event: Confronting a Pandemic — Part 3

By Casey Ross

Blumenthal & Wicker
Health Tech

Federal legislation to protect health data has made little progress. Will that change in the Covid-19 era?

By Rebecca Robbins

Atul Haven photo illustration
Special Report

Two years of halting progress and high turnover preceded Atul Gawande’s exit as Haven CEO

By Erin Brodwin and Casey Ross

ophthalmologist with patient
Health Tech

Google develops AI to identify patients at high risk of blindness

By Casey Ross

Atul Gawande Innovation
Business

Gawande says leaving Haven CEO job will allow him to focus on Covid-19

By Casey Ross

EKG tablet heart monitoring
Health Tech

Fueled by the Covid-19 pandemic, remote heart monitoring could become tech’s next big target

By Erin Brodwin

MRI brain tumor
Health Tech

Hospitals are reluctant to share data. A new effort to map brain tumors with AI is getting their help another way

By Rebecca Robbins

medical cost, stethoscope
Health Tech

AI-centric health companies landed crucial funding in early 2020

By Erin Brodwin

telemedicine/headset & laptop
Health Tech

Telehealth rules have shifted rapidly during the pandemic. Are the changes here to stay?

By Casey Ross

Fitbit
Health Tech

Taking a page from Apple, Fitbit launches a sweeping heart study

By Erin Brodwin

FL Unemployment Line
Health Tech

Will employers still shell out for health tech benefits in an unemployment crisis? The industry is about to find out

By Rebecca Robbins

SF Facial Recognition
Health Tech

The fight over facial recognition technology gets fiercer during the Covid-19 pandemic

By Rebecca Robbins

Facebook Covid, illo
Health Tech

Facebook’s Covid-19 misinformation campaign is based on research. The authors worry Facebook missed the message

By Erin Brodwin

3D illustration crowd of peopl
Health

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative funds Bay Area effort to track coronavirus as the economy reopens

By Erin Brodwin

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