Artificial Intelligence

A STAT Investigation By Casey Ross

From a small town in North Carolina to big-city hospitals, how software infuses racism into U.S. health care

Health Tech By Rebecca Robbins

FDA issues rare emergency authorization for an algorithm used to inform Covid-19 care

Health Tech By Erin Brodwin

With ‘nutrition labels’ and an anthropologist’s eye, Duke pioneers a new approach to AI in medicine

First Opinion By Sam Surette

How should the FDA regulate adaptive AI, software that designs itself?

Health Tech By Rebecca Robbins

Medical AI systems are disproportionately built with data from just three states, new research finds

Health Tech By Rebecca Robbins

When AI is the opposite of sinister: An MIT researcher is held up as model of how algorithms can benefit humanity

Health Tech By STAT staff

AI could help rid health care of biases. It also might make them worse

Health Tech By Rebecca Robbins

Federal judge dismisses lawsuit over patient data sharing by Google and the University of Chicago

Health Tech By Casey Ross

Can AI improve cancer diagnosis in real patients? The U.S. military has enlisted Google to find out

Health Tech By Rebecca Robbins, Casey Ross, and Erin Brodwin

STAT Health Tech: Google’s government contract to use AI in cancer diagnosis & new data on virtual diabetes coaching

Health Tech By Casey Ross

Virtual Event: Cracking Covid-19’s Code with AI

First Opinion By Suresh Katta

A NASA mindset can help end the pandemic

First Opinion By Sara Del Valle

We need to forecast epidemics like we forecast the weather

Health Tech By Casey Ross

As Covid-19 surges, researchers amass lung scans to build AI systems for patient care

Health Tech By Rebecca Robbins

Hospitals deploy AI to send patients home earlier — and keep them there

Health Tech By Rebecca Robbins and Erin Brodwin

STAT+ Conversations: AI’s march into the clinic

Special Report By Rebecca Robbins and Erin Brodwin

An invisible hand: Patients aren’t being told about the AI systems advising their care

Health Tech By Rebecca Robbins

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

Health Tech By Casey Ross

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

Health Tech By Rebecca Robbins

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

Health Tech By Casey Ross

AI startup transcribes and annotates doctor visits for patients

Health Tech By Casey Ross

Google develops AI to identify patients at high risk of blindness

Health Tech By Rebecca Robbins

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

Health Tech By Erin Brodwin

AI-centric health companies landed crucial funding in early 2020

Health Tech By Rebecca Robbins

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

Health Tech By Casey Ross

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

Health Tech By Casey Ross

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

First Opinion By Patricia S. Calhoun and Patricia M. Carreiro

De-identified data exception in HIPAA poses a litigation risk

Health Tech By Casey Ross

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