Health IT

Exclusive By Matthew Herper

Amy Abernethy, deputy commissioner who aimed to amp up FDA’s tech knowhow, to leave post

First Opinion By Christi A. Grimm and Julie K. Taitsman

Why drug prescriptions should include diagnoses

First Opinion By Melinda B. Buntin and Kristine Martin Anderson

The pandemic slingshot: propelling from national crisis to a resilient health care system

Health Tech By Alicia Diaz

Federal watchdog raises concerns about increasing telehealth fraud during pandemic 

First Opinion By Gary Shapiro

Using technology to help heal health care disparities

First Opinion By Gary Velasquez

States and hospitals: overhaul your vaccine plans with data before it’s too late

First Opinion By Vas Narasimhan

Stopping the syndemic: Covid-19 plus other debilitating and deadly diseases

First Opinion By Payal Marathe and Ravi N. Shah

The mental health dilemma: If technology is the problem, can it also be the solution?

First Opinion By Bruce Broussard

Interoperability: an untapped tool in America’s fight against Covid-19

First Opinion By Andrea Bastek

The pandemic is accelerating transformation agendas in the clinical research industry

First Opinion By Ivor Horn

New survey establishes a data-driven baseline for diversity in digital health

Health Tech By Casey Ross

Covid-19 is pushing pharma to the cloud — and convincing the industry of its value

First Opinion By Mark LaRow

Cell phone numbers could provide a fast-track solution to matching patients with their health records

First Opinion By Andrey Ostrovsky

Medicare should break an old rule to let breakthrough digital therapeutics save lives

Health Tech By Casey Ross

Five takeaways from STAT’s investigation of bias in the use of health-cost analytics software

First Opinion By Jenna Carl

To maintain trust and respectability, digital health companies must commit to the highest standards

First Opinion By Matthew S. McCoy, Timothy Libert, and Ari B. Friedman

Online privacy loss: another Covid-19 aftershock

First Opinion By Ron Wyden

America’s mental health care system fell short for my brother. Access to that care should be a legal right for all

Health Tech By STAT staff

Doctors are increasingly using remote monitoring technology, raising questions about inclusivity and usability

Health Tech By Casey Ross

Telehealth grew wildly popular amid Covid-19. Now visits are plunging, forcing providers to recalibrate

First Opinion By Roy Schoenberg

Telehealth and the new choreography of ‘anywhere care’

First Opinion By Dorothy Novick

Telehealth makes me aspire to be a different kind of physician: the kind I used to be

First Opinion By Elissa M. Redmiles

Quality issues may be the stumbling block in the race for contact tracing apps

First Opinion By Sara Del Valle

We need to forecast epidemics like we forecast the weather

First Opinion By Amy E. Wheeler

My patients want the good old days of office visits. That’s not happening any time soon