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DATE: August 12, 2026 at 08:09AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: The secret AI-startup project I’ve been working on the last six months
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DATE: August 12, 2026 at 08:09AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: The secret AI-startup project I’ve been working on the last six months
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DATE: August 12, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Inside a $7 billion Silicon Valley startup’s mad dash to automate the business of health care
From its inception, Commure was built on the dream of automation.
The Silicon Valley technology company set out in 2020 to build a new operating system for health care. Its executives began to cast the company as a kind of Robin Hood: It would leverage artificial intelligence to take power and money from massive insurers and other industry giants — and give it back to doctors.
“I would love a world where the market cap of a UnitedHealth is a fifth, but every doctor is a millionaire,” Commure CEO Tanay Tandon said in a recent interview with Y Combinator, an investor in the company, currently valued at $7 billion.
But Commure isn’t just promising to fatten doctors’ wallets with money from insurers. For those willing to talk up its AI, it also offers to kick in compensation of its own.
A STAT investigation found the company offers thousands of dollars, in various forms, to medical clinics and other parties who refer its products to new business prospects. The compensation is part of a strategy to swiftly sell AI tools it says can unburden clinicians burned out by health care’s endless bureaucratic morass.
Based in Mountain View, Calif., Commure is among the most ambitious and all-encompassing efforts to automate the administrative tasks that underlie these businesses. Many of its customers speak of the company in heroic terms. In marketing videos and podcast interviews, they testify that its products for billing, scheduling, and clinical documentation have restored joy, and reliable revenue, to their practices. The company claims its tools are used by more than 500 health care organizations across the country, including “130 of the nation’s largest health systems,” such as for-profit giants HCA Healthcare and Tenet Healthcare.
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STAT News reports "from the frontiers of health and medicine".
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DATE: August 12, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Inside a $7 billion Silicon Valley startup’s mad dash to automate the business of health care
From its inception, Commure was built on the dream of automation.
The Silicon Valley technology company set out in 2020 to build a new operating system for health care. Its executives began to cast the company as a kind of Robin Hood: It would leverage artificial intelligence to take power and money from massive insurers and other industry giants — and give it back to doctors.
“I would love a world where the market cap of a UnitedHealth is a fifth, but every doctor is a millionaire,” Commure CEO Tanay Tandon said in a recent interview with Y Combinator, an investor in the company, currently valued at $7 billion.
But Commure isn’t just promising to fatten doctors’ wallets with money from insurers. For those willing to talk up its AI, it also offers to kick in compensation of its own.
A STAT investigation found the company offers thousands of dollars, in various forms, to medical clinics and other parties who refer its products to new business prospects. The compensation is part of a strategy to swiftly sell AI tools it says can unburden clinicians burned out by health care’s endless bureaucratic morass.
Based in Mountain View, Calif., Commure is among the most ambitious and all-encompassing efforts to automate the administrative tasks that underlie these businesses. Many of its customers speak of the company in heroic terms. In marketing videos and podcast interviews, they testify that its products for billing, scheduling, and clinical documentation have restored joy, and reliable revenue, to their practices. The company claims its tools are used by more than 500 health care organizations across the country, including “130 of the nation’s largest health systems,” such as for-profit giants HCA Healthcare and Tenet Healthcare.
Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
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STAT News reports "from the frontiers of health and medicine".
Learn more at https://www.statnews.com/category/health-tech/ .
See also their complete Mastodon account at @STAT .
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Healthcare security & privacy posts not related to IT or infosec are at @HIPAABot . Even so, they mix in some infosec with the legal & regulatory information..
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DATE: August 11, 2026 at 09:15AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: A RAPID proposal for breakthrough coverage, and nurses push back on AI
You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday.
Happy Tuesday, health tech readers! Mario is out on a very well-deserved break, so you’ll get dispatches from the rest of STAT’s health tech team this week.
Today, a word from nurses on how AI really impacts their work. And finally, more details on the RAPID pathway that aims to help medical devices escape the valley of death.
Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
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STAT News reports "from the frontiers of health and medicine".
Learn more at https://www.statnews.com/category/health-tech/ .
See also their complete Mastodon account at @STAT .
This robot is NOT affiliated with STAT news and merely rebroadcasts from their site. Responses posted here are not monitored.
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DATE: August 11, 2026 at 09:15AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: A RAPID proposal for breakthrough coverage, and nurses push back on AI
You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday.
Happy Tuesday, health tech readers! Mario is out on a very well-deserved break, so you’ll get dispatches from the rest of STAT’s health tech team this week.
Today, a word from nurses on how AI really impacts their work. And finally, more details on the RAPID pathway that aims to help medical devices escape the valley of death.
Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
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STAT News reports "from the frontiers of health and medicine".
Learn more at https://www.statnews.com/category/health-tech/ .
See also their complete Mastodon account at @STAT .
This robot is NOT affiliated with STAT news and merely rebroadcasts from their site. Responses posted here are not monitored.
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Healthcare security & privacy posts not related to IT or infosec are at @HIPAABot . Even so, they mix in some infosec with the legal & regulatory information..
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DATE: August 11, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Nurses seek a seat at the table as they fight expanding clinical AI
URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/11/nurses-seek-involvement-clinical-ai-decisions/?utm_campaign=rss
Nurses, who make up the largest part of the health care workforce, are getting more vocal about the risks posed by clinical artificial intelligence to their jobs and patient care as the technology makes deeper inroads into the practice of medicine.
At Montefiore hospital in the Bronx, laid-off nurses have raised the alarm about administrative AI they say is replacing them. Across the country in California, nurses at Kaiser Permanente are striking and picketing against the AI surveilling their work and playing a growing role in patient care. Collectively, the loudest voices have come from unions like National Nurses United, which represents over 200,000 nurses, including those at Kaiser and Montefiore.
As that workplace advocacy and bargaining continue, educators and researchers also have their eyes on the future: They’re trying to build solutions to support the next generation of nurses through training and involvement in how patient-facing AI is developed and deployed. By giving nurses a voice in AI’s inevitable disruption of health care, they hope to make the current adversarial relationship more collaborative.
Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/11/nurses-seek-involvement-clinical-ai-decisions/?utm_campaign=rss
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STAT News reports "from the frontiers of health and medicine".
Learn more at https://www.statnews.com/category/health-tech/ .
See also their complete Mastodon account at @STAT .
This robot is NOT affiliated with STAT news and merely rebroadcasts from their site. Responses posted here are not monitored.
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Healthcare security & privacy posts not related to IT or infosec are at @HIPAABot . Even so, they mix in some infosec with the legal & regulatory information..
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DATE: August 11, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Nurses seek a seat at the table as they fight expanding clinical AI
URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/11/nurses-seek-involvement-clinical-ai-decisions/?utm_campaign=rss
Nurses, who make up the largest part of the health care workforce, are getting more vocal about the risks posed by clinical artificial intelligence to their jobs and patient care as the technology makes deeper inroads into the practice of medicine.
At Montefiore hospital in the Bronx, laid-off nurses have raised the alarm about administrative AI they say is replacing them. Across the country in California, nurses at Kaiser Permanente are striking and picketing against the AI surveilling their work and playing a growing role in patient care. Collectively, the loudest voices have come from unions like National Nurses United, which represents over 200,000 nurses, including those at Kaiser and Montefiore.
As that workplace advocacy and bargaining continue, educators and researchers also have their eyes on the future: They’re trying to build solutions to support the next generation of nurses through training and involvement in how patient-facing AI is developed and deployed. By giving nurses a voice in AI’s inevitable disruption of health care, they hope to make the current adversarial relationship more collaborative.
Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/11/nurses-seek-involvement-clinical-ai-decisions/?utm_campaign=rss
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STAT News reports "from the frontiers of health and medicine".
Learn more at https://www.statnews.com/category/health-tech/ .
See also their complete Mastodon account at @STAT .
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Tho’ I’d seen the word B4, I just now learned what an #Endocrinologist does; basically your #Diabetes #Doctor
Was @ #Hospital from Wed mid-day to Mon mid-day due to #STEMI #HeartAttack
Very emergency shit. Lucky to have guessed correctly fast, 911, rushed to #StJohns #Fairview #CathLab
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Tho’ I’d seen the word B4, I just now learned what an #Endocrinologist does; basically your #Diabetes #Doctor
Was @ #Hospital from Wed mid-day to Mon mid-day due to #STEMI #HeartAttack
Very emergency shit. Lucky to have guessed correctly fast, 911, rushed to #StJohns #Fairview #CathLab
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🚨🚨 Trump admin EO will upend nation’s #ChildhoodVaccineSchedule 🚨🚨
Trump has pushed to narrow which #vaccines are given to children & split shots into multiple #doctor appointments.
The #Trump admin is preparing an executive order that would upend decades of #federal guidance on which vaccines are given to #children & asks #states to reconsider #school vaccine requirements.
#PublicHealth #medicine #RFKJr #law #policy #insurance #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #eugenics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/08/10/trump-administration-order-would-upend-nations-childhood-vaccine-schedule/ -
🚨🚨 Trump admin EO will upend nation’s #ChildhoodVaccineSchedule 🚨🚨
Trump has pushed to narrow which #vaccines are given to children & split shots into multiple #doctor appointments.
The #Trump admin is preparing an executive order that would upend decades of #federal guidance on which vaccines are given to #children & asks #states to reconsider #school vaccine requirements.
#PublicHealth #medicine #RFKJr #law #policy #insurance #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #eugenics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/08/10/trump-administration-order-would-upend-nations-childhood-vaccine-schedule/ -
DATE: August 10, 2026 at 10:52AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Ban prior auth? And hospitals cut jobs
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The cyclosporiasis outbreak means a lot of poop has been tested. Spare a thought for the lab professionals who are up to their knees in you-know-what. Feel free to send me samples … of your thoughts and tips only, come on now: [email protected].
Should prior authorization be eliminated?
Hannah Garden-Monheit is asking for a simple health care policy change: ban prior authorizations (for the most part).
Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
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DATE: August 10, 2026 at 10:52AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Ban prior auth? And hospitals cut jobs
This is the online version of STAT’s weekly email newsletter Health Care Inc. Sign up here.
The cyclosporiasis outbreak means a lot of poop has been tested. Spare a thought for the lab professionals who are up to their knees in you-know-what. Feel free to send me samples … of your thoughts and tips only, come on now: [email protected].
Should prior authorization be eliminated?
Hannah Garden-Monheit is asking for a simple health care policy change: ban prior authorizations (for the most part).
Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
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STAT News reports "from the frontiers of health and medicine".
Learn more at https://www.statnews.com/category/health-tech/ .
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Cold Sweats
A tri-fecta of great challenges today.
https://weeklyprompts.com/2026/08/08/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-anxiety/ Three Things Challenge https://worddaily.com/WPWC ✅
This week, the weekend challenge is the word “Anxiety”
TTC ✅
Your three words today are:
DIET
DRIBBLE
DALLY
WD ✅
Disquisition - ˌdiskwəˈzishən
Noun
A formal inquiry into or discussion of a subject; discourse.I didn’t dally when I met with my doctor yesterday. My first disquisition was the rules of the new diet she had me on, it was giving me anxiety so bad that I would find myself constantly wiping the dribble off of my face. She reassured me that it was all in my head as she handed me another napkin to wipe my chin off.
https://youtu.be/n95eekfFZZg?si=f7pjI7MzKR_vsM-h
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#anxiety #Challenges #dailyprompt #dailyprompt2847 #doctor #writing -
Cold Sweats
A tri-fecta of great challenges today.
https://weeklyprompts.com/2026/08/08/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-anxiety/ Three Things Challenge https://worddaily.com/WPWC ✅
This week, the weekend challenge is the word “Anxiety”
TTC ✅
Your three words today are:
DIET
DRIBBLE
DALLY
WD ✅
Disquisition - ˌdiskwəˈzishən
Noun
A formal inquiry into or discussion of a subject; discourse.I didn’t dally when I met with my doctor yesterday. My first disquisition was the rules of the new diet she had me on, it was giving me anxiety so bad that I would find myself constantly wiping the dribble off of my face. She reassured me that it was all in my head as she handed me another napkin to wipe my chin off.
https://youtu.be/n95eekfFZZg?si=f7pjI7MzKR_vsM-h
A826 ©https://www.peaceful-threads.com
#anxiety #Challenges #dailyprompt #dailyprompt2847 #doctor #writing -
DATE: August 7, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: Opinion: AI won’t enhance physician autonomy. It will further diminish it
URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/07/medical-ai-doctors-autonomy/?utm_campaign=rss
Keep your head down. Don’t ask too many questions. Just finish your note and move on.
I heard a version of this command at every level of training and well into my attending practice, from colleagues, seniors, teachers, and administration. Most delivered the advice like it was some sort of hard-won wisdom, though it wasn’t. It was the sound of people who repeated the system’s rules because it felt like control.
Read the rest…
URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/07/medical-ai-doctors-autonomy/?utm_campaign=rss
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STAT News reports "from the frontiers of health and medicine".
Learn more at https://www.statnews.com/category/health-tech/ .
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DATE: August 7, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: Opinion: AI won’t enhance physician autonomy. It will further diminish it
URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/07/medical-ai-doctors-autonomy/?utm_campaign=rss
Keep your head down. Don’t ask too many questions. Just finish your note and move on.
I heard a version of this command at every level of training and well into my attending practice, from colleagues, seniors, teachers, and administration. Most delivered the advice like it was some sort of hard-won wisdom, though it wasn’t. It was the sound of people who repeated the system’s rules because it felt like control.
Read the rest…
URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/07/medical-ai-doctors-autonomy/?utm_campaign=rss
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STAT News reports "from the frontiers of health and medicine".
Learn more at https://www.statnews.com/category/health-tech/ .
See also their complete Mastodon account at @STAT .
This robot is NOT affiliated with STAT news and merely rebroadcasts from their site. Responses posted here are not monitored.
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Healthcare security & privacy posts not related to IT or infosec are at @HIPAABot . Even so, they mix in some infosec with the legal & regulatory information..
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DATE: August 6, 2026 at 08:54AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Medicare pushes ACCESS but doesn’t tell patients what providers offer it
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Good morning health tech readers!
Today, a story about tech companies and regulators rubbing elbows. Plus: Checking in on ACCESS, one month in.
Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
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STAT News reports "from the frontiers of health and medicine".
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DATE: August 6, 2026 at 08:54AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Medicare pushes ACCESS but doesn’t tell patients what providers offer it
You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday.
Good morning health tech readers!
Today, a story about tech companies and regulators rubbing elbows. Plus: Checking in on ACCESS, one month in.
Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
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STAT News reports "from the frontiers of health and medicine".
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DATE: August 5, 2026 at 04:05PM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Federal regulators invite industry, researchers, and lobbyists to closed-door meetings on clinical AI
Federal health officials held closed door conversations with prominent technology companies last month as the health department and its subagencies aim to safely boost adoption of clinical artificial intelligence.
During a July 8th “clinical AI demo day” at the Food and Drug Administration’s White Oak headquarters, officials from the FDA and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services hosted leaders from 10 companies, according to an agenda for the event reviewed by STAT: Anthropic, Counsel Health, Curai, K Health, Microsoft AI, Amazon One Medical, Doctronic, Ellipsis Health, Hippocratic AI, and Welldoc.
STAT spoke with four companies that attended, Counsel Health, K Health, Hippocratic AI, and Ellipsis Health, who summarized their comments to regulators. The meeting was meant to offer federal health officials first-hand experience with AI doctor technology as it exists today. For the assembled companies, including powerful technology giants and startups funded by influential investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures, the event offered a significant opportunity to help shape policy as officials wrestle with regulating health AI and how to pay for it.
Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
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STAT News reports "from the frontiers of health and medicine".
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See also their complete Mastodon account at @STAT .
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DATE: August 5, 2026 at 04:05PM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Federal regulators invite industry, researchers, and lobbyists to closed-door meetings on clinical AI
Federal health officials held closed door conversations with prominent technology companies last month as the health department and its subagencies aim to safely boost adoption of clinical artificial intelligence.
During a July 8th “clinical AI demo day” at the Food and Drug Administration’s White Oak headquarters, officials from the FDA and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services hosted leaders from 10 companies, according to an agenda for the event reviewed by STAT: Anthropic, Counsel Health, Curai, K Health, Microsoft AI, Amazon One Medical, Doctronic, Ellipsis Health, Hippocratic AI, and Welldoc.
STAT spoke with four companies that attended, Counsel Health, K Health, Hippocratic AI, and Ellipsis Health, who summarized their comments to regulators. The meeting was meant to offer federal health officials first-hand experience with AI doctor technology as it exists today. For the assembled companies, including powerful technology giants and startups funded by influential investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures, the event offered a significant opportunity to help shape policy as officials wrestle with regulating health AI and how to pay for it.
Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
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STAT News reports "from the frontiers of health and medicine".
Learn more at https://www.statnews.com/category/health-tech/ .
See also their complete Mastodon account at @STAT .
This robot is NOT affiliated with STAT news and merely rebroadcasts from their site. Responses posted here are not monitored.
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Healthcare security & privacy posts not related to IT or infosec are at @HIPAABot . Even so, they mix in some infosec with the legal & regulatory information..
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DATE: August 5, 2026 at 09:29AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Why Schrödinger CEO Ramy Farid changed how he’s thinking about AI
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Schrödinger’s and Centene’s AI shifts
I’m looking forward to the point in time when people revise their opinions on AI. I think that in five years, we’ll have a better idea of what AI can and can’t do. Bosses will stop forcing people to use AI that doesn’t work, partially helped by AI getting better. There will be less froth, and thus less uncertainty in the job market and in the world (with regard to AI) at large.
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DATE: August 5, 2026 at 09:29AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Why Schrödinger CEO Ramy Farid changed how he’s thinking about AI
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Schrödinger’s and Centene’s AI shifts
I’m looking forward to the point in time when people revise their opinions on AI. I think that in five years, we’ll have a better idea of what AI can and can’t do. Bosses will stop forcing people to use AI that doesn’t work, partially helped by AI getting better. There will be less froth, and thus less uncertainty in the job market and in the world (with regard to AI) at large.
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DATE: August 4, 2026 at 09:23AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Are AI scribes medical devices? UK regulator weighs in.
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DATE: August 4, 2026 at 09:23AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Are AI scribes medical devices? UK regulator weighs in.
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DATE: August 4, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: Opinion: I’m using not-FDA-approved software to manage my diabetes. I’ve never felt better
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I have had type 1 diabetes for more than 30 years, which I manage using a glucose monitor connected to an insulin pump. About every five years, I would get upgraded pumps and sensors that were approved by the Food and Drug Administration and covered by my insurance. Still, my glucose control slowly deteriorated.
One day, my physician encouraged me to explore new, open-source software that better manages the sensor and pump system. This new code — written by people who were dissatisfied with the existing, FDA-regulated app — is a revelation. It fine-tunes my insulin delivery in a manner no FDA-approved systems could. I am now meeting guidelines that had previously eluded me, and I’m feeling great. All of this is free and runs on my iPhone.
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DATE: August 4, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: Opinion: I’m using not-FDA-approved software to manage my diabetes. I’ve never felt better
URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/04/diabetes-open-source-software-fda-approval/?utm_campaign=rss
I have had type 1 diabetes for more than 30 years, which I manage using a glucose monitor connected to an insulin pump. About every five years, I would get upgraded pumps and sensors that were approved by the Food and Drug Administration and covered by my insurance. Still, my glucose control slowly deteriorated.
One day, my physician encouraged me to explore new, open-source software that better manages the sensor and pump system. This new code — written by people who were dissatisfied with the existing, FDA-regulated app — is a revelation. It fine-tunes my insulin delivery in a manner no FDA-approved systems could. I am now meeting guidelines that had previously eluded me, and I’m feeling great. All of this is free and runs on my iPhone.
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DATE: August 3, 2026 at 11:41AM
SOURCE: STAT MEDICAL DEVICESTITLE: STAT+: Medicare eliminates key pathways used by ‘breakthrough’ devices for extra payments
Medicare is removing flexibilities that have allowed medical devices designated as “breakthroughs” by the Food and Drug Administration to leapfrog qualifications for extra payments.
Until now, alternative pathways have allowed authorized breakthrough devices to qualify for supplemental payments without proving their novelty or substantial clinical improvement over alternatives. In its rule for inpatient hospital payments, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finalized a proposal to repeal those pathways for both inpatient and outpatient settings, starting in fiscal year 2028.
Such payments are meant to incentivize hospitals to use new, transformative technology while it’s still expensive, and give its makers time to prove their value. Requiring breakthrough devices to demonstrate substantial clinical improvement, the rule reads, “ensures that additional Medicare payments are used to support Medicare beneficiaries’ access to innovations that are demonstrated to improve outcomes compared to the currently available treatment.”
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DATE: August 3, 2026 at 11:41AM
SOURCE: STAT MEDICAL DEVICESTITLE: STAT+: Medicare eliminates key pathways used by ‘breakthrough’ devices for extra payments
Medicare is removing flexibilities that have allowed medical devices designated as “breakthroughs” by the Food and Drug Administration to leapfrog qualifications for extra payments.
Until now, alternative pathways have allowed authorized breakthrough devices to qualify for supplemental payments without proving their novelty or substantial clinical improvement over alternatives. In its rule for inpatient hospital payments, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finalized a proposal to repeal those pathways for both inpatient and outpatient settings, starting in fiscal year 2028.
Such payments are meant to incentivize hospitals to use new, transformative technology while it’s still expensive, and give its makers time to prove their value. Requiring breakthrough devices to demonstrate substantial clinical improvement, the rule reads, “ensures that additional Medicare payments are used to support Medicare beneficiaries’ access to innovations that are demonstrated to improve outcomes compared to the currently available treatment.”
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DATE: August 3, 2026 at 11:41AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Medicare eliminates key pathways used by ‘breakthrough’ devices for extra payments
Medicare is removing flexibilities that have allowed medical devices designated as “breakthroughs” by the Food and Drug Administration to leapfrog qualifications for extra payments.
Until now, alternative pathways have allowed authorized breakthrough devices to qualify for supplemental payments without proving their novelty or substantial clinical improvement over alternatives. In its rule for inpatient hospital payments, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finalized a proposal to repeal those pathways for both inpatient and outpatient settings, starting in fiscal year 2028.
Such payments are meant to incentivize hospitals to use new, transformative technology while it’s still expensive, and give its makers time to prove their value. Requiring breakthrough devices to demonstrate substantial clinical improvement, the rule reads, “ensures that additional Medicare payments are used to support Medicare beneficiaries’ access to innovations that are demonstrated to improve outcomes compared to the currently available treatment.”
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DATE: August 3, 2026 at 11:41AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Medicare eliminates key pathways used by ‘breakthrough’ devices for extra payments
Medicare is removing flexibilities that have allowed medical devices designated as “breakthroughs” by the Food and Drug Administration to leapfrog qualifications for extra payments.
Until now, alternative pathways have allowed authorized breakthrough devices to qualify for supplemental payments without proving their novelty or substantial clinical improvement over alternatives. In its rule for inpatient hospital payments, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finalized a proposal to repeal those pathways for both inpatient and outpatient settings, starting in fiscal year 2028.
Such payments are meant to incentivize hospitals to use new, transformative technology while it’s still expensive, and give its makers time to prove their value. Requiring breakthrough devices to demonstrate substantial clinical improvement, the rule reads, “ensures that additional Medicare payments are used to support Medicare beneficiaries’ access to innovations that are demonstrated to improve outcomes compared to the currently available treatment.”
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DATE: August 3, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: Opinion: We lead the Federation of State Medical Boards. Here’s what we think about licensing AI to practice medicine
URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/03/ai-doctors-licensing-state-medical-boards/?utm_campaign=rss
Artificial intelligence is moving fast — so fast that old questions about whether AI should be licensed to practice medicine, in whole or in part, have become pressing ones. These questions are arriving everywhere, in policy debates, pilot programs, and draft legislation, particularly at the state level.
The safest and most sensible answer today is that AI is not ready to be independently licensed like a physician. Medicine rests on a social contract: Society grants physicians unique privileges because they promise extraordinary duties of competence, ethics, and accountability in return. A medical license, therefore, isn’t just a permit to generate thoughtful and informed answers. It’s a legal and ethical grant of authority tied to human judgment, professional accountability, discipline, transparency, and a duty to put patients first.​
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DATE: August 3, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Are AI scribes useful tools in medical education, or a crutch that imperils learning?
Hospitals have been quick to adopt artificial intelligence tools for automating note-taking during patient visits, saying they help lower physician burnout and increase revenues. Medical schools, though, are facing a vexing quandary over AI scribes.
As much as educators want future physicians to be well-versed in the technology, they worry that letting students off-load the struggle of thinking through differential diagnoses to AI could do irreparable harm during the formative years of their medical training.
“The process of deliberately crafting the note forces us to use our brains to really wrestle with what’s happening,” said Jaideep Talwalkar, associate dean of educational technology and innovation at Yale School of Medicine. “There’s an importance in doing that with great repetition.”
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DATE: August 3, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: Opinion: We lead the Federation of State Medical Boards. Here’s what we think about licensing AI to practice medicine
URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/03/ai-doctors-licensing-state-medical-boards/?utm_campaign=rss
Artificial intelligence is moving fast — so fast that old questions about whether AI should be licensed to practice medicine, in whole or in part, have become pressing ones. These questions are arriving everywhere, in policy debates, pilot programs, and draft legislation, particularly at the state level.
The safest and most sensible answer today is that AI is not ready to be independently licensed like a physician. Medicine rests on a social contract: Society grants physicians unique privileges because they promise extraordinary duties of competence, ethics, and accountability in return. A medical license, therefore, isn’t just a permit to generate thoughtful and informed answers. It’s a legal and ethical grant of authority tied to human judgment, professional accountability, discipline, transparency, and a duty to put patients first.​
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DATE: August 3, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Are AI scribes useful tools in medical education, or a crutch that imperils learning?
Hospitals have been quick to adopt artificial intelligence tools for automating note-taking during patient visits, saying they help lower physician burnout and increase revenues. Medical schools, though, are facing a vexing quandary over AI scribes.
As much as educators want future physicians to be well-versed in the technology, they worry that letting students off-load the struggle of thinking through differential diagnoses to AI could do irreparable harm during the formative years of their medical training.
“The process of deliberately crafting the note forces us to use our brains to really wrestle with what’s happening,” said Jaideep Talwalkar, associate dean of educational technology and innovation at Yale School of Medicine. “There’s an importance in doing that with great repetition.”
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DATE: July 29, 2026 at 02:45PM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Hims misled consumers and violated their privacy, FTC alleges in a lawsuit
On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission sued direct-to-consumer telehealth company Hims & Hers, continuing a pattern of action against digital health companies’ business practices and use of consumer health data. The FTC, along with Utah and California, alleged that Hims deceived consumers in several ways when they purchased clinical care and medications through the site.
The telehealth company misled consumers about sharing their sensitive health information with third parties including Meta and Snap, the suit claims. It also alleges that Hims isn’t clear that when consumers fill out a medical history, they are signing up for a subscription that continually renews and bills them for medication. Patients are given “virtually no opportunity to review the provider’s recommended treatment, much less consent to it,” the lawsuit alleges, while the site also makes it difficult for users to cancel their subscriptions.
Hims responded to the suit in a statement on the social media platform X. “This lawsuit disregards substantial evidence we provided the FTC during its nearly three-year investigation, ignores established state laws and industry standards in telehealth, and contorts the law to try to manufacture claims,” reads the statement. “This is not enforcement grounded in consumer protection; it is an effort to generate headlines at our expense. We are confident in our position and will vigorously defend ourselves against these baseless claims.”
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DATE: July 29, 2026 at 02:45PM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Hims misled consumers and violated their privacy, FTC alleges in a lawsuit
On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission sued direct-to-consumer telehealth company Hims & Hers, continuing a pattern of action against digital health companies’ business practices and use of consumer health data. The FTC, along with Utah and California, alleged that Hims deceived consumers in several ways when they purchased clinical care and medications through the site.
The telehealth company misled consumers about sharing their sensitive health information with third parties including Meta and Snap, the suit claims. It also alleges that Hims isn’t clear that when consumers fill out a medical history, they are signing up for a subscription that continually renews and bills them for medication. Patients are given “virtually no opportunity to review the provider’s recommended treatment, much less consent to it,” the lawsuit alleges, while the site also makes it difficult for users to cancel their subscriptions.
Hims responded to the suit in a statement on the social media platform X. “This lawsuit disregards substantial evidence we provided the FTC during its nearly three-year investigation, ignores established state laws and industry standards in telehealth, and contorts the law to try to manufacture claims,” reads the statement. “This is not enforcement grounded in consumer protection; it is an effort to generate headlines at our expense. We are confident in our position and will vigorously defend ourselves against these baseless claims.”
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DATE: July 29, 2026 at 09:29AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Why benchmarking clinical LLMs from OpenEvidence, Doximity is complicated
You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s AI Prognosis newsletter, our subscriber-exclusive guide to artificial intelligence in health care and medicine. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Wednesday.
I saw “The Odyssey” during its opening weekend. Ever since then, I have been questioning whether I’m illiterate or whether Christopher Nolan is a poor storyteller. This London Review of Books evaluation of the film, written by the woman whose translation of “The Odyssey” Nolan apparently read, has freed me from my wondering. (h/t to my colleague Matthew Herper)
Hot takes on Homer’s epic, or hot tips about Epic Systems: [email protected]
Benchmark battle bots
You might recall that in mid-June, there was a Nature Medicine study that pitted clinical AI systems OpenEvidence and UpToDate Expert AI against general LLMs. It set off a reaction in the clinical AI world like no other paper has. “The results rang out like a gunshot,” as STAT health tech correspondent Katie Palmer describes it.
The controversy surrounding the study, and everything that came after, exemplifies the problems I have with benchmarks.
Katie summed it up well when I talked to her yesterday: “The way that benchmarks have been talked about generally, and specifically in clinical AI, tends to summarize them into the headlines,” she said. “Every study needs a headline and every story needs a headline, but as we both know, and as I think most people in the industry know, an individual benchmark doesn’t mean much.”
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DATE: July 29, 2026 at 09:29AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Why benchmarking clinical LLMs from OpenEvidence, Doximity is complicated
You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s AI Prognosis newsletter, our subscriber-exclusive guide to artificial intelligence in health care and medicine. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Wednesday.
I saw “The Odyssey” during its opening weekend. Ever since then, I have been questioning whether I’m illiterate or whether Christopher Nolan is a poor storyteller. This London Review of Books evaluation of the film, written by the woman whose translation of “The Odyssey” Nolan apparently read, has freed me from my wondering. (h/t to my colleague Matthew Herper)
Hot takes on Homer’s epic, or hot tips about Epic Systems: [email protected]
Benchmark battle bots
You might recall that in mid-June, there was a Nature Medicine study that pitted clinical AI systems OpenEvidence and UpToDate Expert AI against general LLMs. It set off a reaction in the clinical AI world like no other paper has. “The results rang out like a gunshot,” as STAT health tech correspondent Katie Palmer describes it.
The controversy surrounding the study, and everything that came after, exemplifies the problems I have with benchmarks.
Katie summed it up well when I talked to her yesterday: “The way that benchmarks have been talked about generally, and specifically in clinical AI, tends to summarize them into the headlines,” she said. “Every study needs a headline and every story needs a headline, but as we both know, and as I think most people in the industry know, an individual benchmark doesn’t mean much.”
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DATE: July 29, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Clinical chatbots are taking medicine by storm. Should doctors trust them?
Hundreds of thousands of U.S. doctors use clinical large language models, pitched by companies like OpenEvidence, Doximity, and UpToDate as an antidote to the dangers of hallucination-prone generalist models from Big Tech. Yet few studies have pitted them against each other — and this summer brought a high-profile head-to-head.
Researchers from NYU Langone Health had tested general and clinical models, including OpenEvidence and UpToDate Expert AI, on three sets of clinical questions. The findings, published in Nature Medicine in June: The clinical AI performed worse than the general models.
The results rang out like a gunshot. “I’ve never seen a single paper trigger the kind of reactions this one has in the health AI community,” wrote Kaiser Permanente’s vice president of AI and emerging technologies on LinkedIn. The paper’s findings, like all science, are subject to interpretation and debate — but many online reactions treated them more like a clear victory for general frontier models.
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DATE: July 29, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Clinical chatbots are taking medicine by storm. Should doctors trust them?
Hundreds of thousands of U.S. doctors use clinical large language models, pitched by companies like OpenEvidence, Doximity, and UpToDate as an antidote to the dangers of hallucination-prone generalist models from Big Tech. Yet few studies have pitted them against each other — and this summer brought a high-profile head-to-head.
Researchers from NYU Langone Health had tested general and clinical models, including OpenEvidence and UpToDate Expert AI, on three sets of clinical questions. The findings, published in Nature Medicine in June: The clinical AI performed worse than the general models.
The results rang out like a gunshot. “I’ve never seen a single paper trigger the kind of reactions this one has in the health AI community,” wrote Kaiser Permanente’s vice president of AI and emerging technologies on LinkedIn. The paper’s findings, like all science, are subject to interpretation and debate — but many online reactions treated them more like a clear victory for general frontier models.
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DATE: July 28, 2026 at 09:22AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Three questions with Whoop’s new CMO
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Today, the latest on tech company pledges to CMS. Plus: ChatGPT Health is now generally available and Whoop’s new CMO answers my questions.
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DATE: July 28, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: CMS evaluates one year of health tech progress, announces eight new pledge categories
It was a skit worthy of an Agatha Christie whodunit reveal: Against the perhaps-too-joyous strains of a jazzy “When The Saints Go Marching In,” a gaggle of health IT professionals and Medicare staffers accompanied a Spirit Halloween-style coffin prop onstage at Health and Human Services headquarters on Monday. Some wore black veils, some held white roses.
The coffin read, “RIP CLIPBOARD,” referring to the decades-old information-gathering staple of health care provider waiting rooms.
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