Healthcare Tech

A cohort of researchers and developers announced Friday that the Android app CommonHealth — which lets users see and share health data such as lab test results, immunizations, and medications from their records — is now connected to 230 U.S. health systems. Similar to Apple Health Records for iPhone users, the free app — produced

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At the start of a biennial contest to predict the structure of proteins, the expectations for Google’s artificial intelligence unit DeepMind couldn’t have been higher. Think Mike Tyson in the mid-1980s: Everyone was expecting a knockout. The results of the contest, known as CASP, came out Monday — and DeepMind didn’t disappoint, stunning the field

Covid-19 started as a disaster for clinical research, halting or delaying 3 of every 4 trials worldwide. But in the months since, it has also become a showcase for decentralized research that uses telemedicine and mobile technologies to accelerate the pace of discovery — and potentially cut its costs. Clinical investigators have been forced to

A top researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Thursday said that artificial intelligence systems developed for medicine must be more transparent and judged against a set of common standards to ensure fairness and equity. “It’s really important, whenever we are developing these models, to train them on diverse populations and report their accuracy,

The launch of Amazon Pharmacy on Tuesday sent shockwaves through the pharmacy pipeline, with industry observers speculating that the shipping giant’s latest move would spur major competition across the sector. Above all else, Amazon’s new service — which lets customers buy prescription drugs online and have them delivered — further centralizes the home as a

As the United States braces for a bleak winter, hospital systems across the country are ramping up their efforts to develop AI systems to predict how likely their Covid-19 patients are to fall severely ill or even die. Yet most of the efforts are being developed in siloes and trained on limited datasets, raising crucial

Amazon added new territory to its burgeoning health care empire on Tuesday, launching Amazon Pharmacy, a service that lets customers buy prescription medications online using cash or insurance coverage. Health care providers can also send patient prescriptions through the offering, which now includes PillPack, the medication delivery startup Amazon acquired in 2018. People who were

The artificial intelligence Maithra Raghu studies at Google Brain doesn’t have a bedside manner. But she’s betting it can still help restore a deeply human, disappearing aspect of modern medicine: personal connection. In a health care system flooded with paperwork and patient data, Raghu sees a natural place for neural networks, which analyze vast amounts

Artificial intelligence is gaining new ground in nearly every corner of the clinic — including, increasingly, in vitro fertilization. IVF has helped millions of families conceive. But it’s also expensive, often emotionally and physically grueling, and requires many patients to go through numerous rounds to get pregnant. Researchers are looking to see if AI can

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X, the Alphabet subsidiary trying to use artificial intelligence to discover a biomarker for depression and anxiety in brainwave data, reported this week that its initiative had failed to home in on a single indicator that could make measuring mental health as simple as reading a glucose meter. Given the mystery that still shrouds the

The pandemic has driven unprecedented demand for remote patient monitoring tools. But for all their tech-savvy convenience, they have yet to overcome major barriers that prevent their adoption among larger swaths of the U.S. population. Once dominated by bulky devices designed for patients with a narrow set of severe chronic disorders, the RPM space has

Digital health company Omada Health presented encouraging research results on Tuesday suggesting its diabetes prevention platform — which virtually connects prediabetic patients with health coaches and clinicians — could help curb the symptoms of the disease as well as an equivalent program delivered in person. The research is in some ways the biggest test yet

No boy should have a last stretch of days. But Bertrand Might lived his as well as any boy could: There was a “Star Trek” marathon with his brother and sister, sunrises on the lakeshore, and visits with family in parks, beaches, and backyards — anywhere they could safely gather during the pandemic. His father,

In the first project of their sweeping data partnership, Google and the Mayo Clinic will build an artificial intelligence tool to guide the targeting of radiation therapy in cancer patients, the organizations said Wednesday. The tool will draw contours around tumors in the head and neck, dividing them from healthy tissue, and help to determine

Pinterest has built its massive brand around its identity as a cheery, curated hub of health and wellness content — complete with a widely praised, hardline policy against medical misinformation. But behind the scenes, Pinterest’s battle against misinformation has been just as much a fight inside the company’s own doors. A STAT investigation has found

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