Health Tech

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

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Health Tech

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

By Rebecca Robbins

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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

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Special Report

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

By Erin Brodwin and Casey Ross

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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

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Health Tech

AI-centric health companies landed crucial funding in early 2020

By Erin Brodwin

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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

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Health Tech

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

By Erin Brodwin

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Health

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

By Erin Brodwin

Truemann Mills 7
Health Tech

In fading steel towns, chronically ill patients hope video visits stay after the pandemic goes

By Casey Ross

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Health Tech

A gulf emerges in health tech: While some companies surge, others lay off their workers

By Rebecca Robbins and Erin Brodwin

ICU beds CA
Health Tech

Hospitals are using AI to predict the decline of Covid-19 patients — before knowing it works

By Casey Ross

smart phone med records
Health Tech

Major health-record company drops opposition to federal data-sharing rule

By Casey Ross

Singapore's contact-tracing
Health Tech

‘It’s noisy’: Competing Covid-19 efforts could hamper progress, experts warn

By Erin Brodwin and Rebecca Robbins

Endeavor_4 vid game
Health Tech

Awaiting an FDA decision, Akili rolls out its video game for kids with ADHD under relaxed rules

By Rebecca Robbins

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Health Tech

How a coronavirus symptom checker came to steer patients to care from Texas to Estonia

By Casey Ross

Holmes
Health Tech

Pandemic will delay blockbuster trial of ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes

By Rebecca Robbins

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Health Tech

5 burning questions about tech efforts to track Covid-19 cases

By Casey Ross

Medical office closed
Health Tech

With Covid-19 delaying routine care, chronic disease startups brace for a slew of complications

By Erin Brodwin

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Health Tech

Coronavirus pandemic sets up potential breakout moment for virtual mental health care

By Rebecca Robbins

FDA through the window
Health Tech

Startups spar with FDA over what constitutes a home coronavirus test

By Erin Brodwin

UPMC
Health Tech

International trial uses AI to rapidly identify optimal Covid-19 treatments

By Casey Ross

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