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DATE: August 13, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: What Medicare incentives for AI-based devices mean for tech companies — and hospitals
For hospitals, the promise of artificial intelligence is financial as much as clinical. A hospital might deploy an AI device because it promises to throw up an alert that could save a patient’s life — but the technology is far more likely to stick if it proves it can drive down costs.
Convincing hospitals and health systems that a new technology will provide that return on investment is tricky, though. So some AI startups have benefited from a temporary sweetener that helps customers get on board: Certain new technologies can apply to get add-on payments from Medicare for two or three years after they come to market. The tax-dollar-funded payments are meant as an incentive to help get new, expensive medical technologies to patients.
If a hospital thinks, “‘Oh, you’re not 100% sure you have the money, or you don’t necessarily believe 100% of the assumptions in the ROI,’ then you know what? You have this safety net, at least for the next few years,” said Tom Valent, chief business officer at Aidoc.
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DATE: August 13, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT MEDICAL DEVICESTITLE: STAT+: What Medicare incentives for AI-based devices mean for tech companies — and hospitals
For hospitals, the promise of artificial intelligence is financial as much as clinical. A hospital might deploy an AI device because it promises to throw up an alert that could save a patient’s life — but the technology is far more likely to stick if it proves it can drive down costs.
Convincing hospitals and health systems that a new technology will provide that return on investment is tricky, though. So some AI startups have benefited from a temporary sweetener that helps customers get on board: Certain new technologies can apply to get add-on payments from Medicare for two or three years after they come to market. The tax-dollar-funded payments are meant as an incentive to help get new, expensive medical technologies to patients.
If a hospital thinks, “‘Oh, you’re not 100% sure you have the money, or you don’t necessarily believe 100% of the assumptions in the ROI,’ then you know what? You have this safety net, at least for the next few years,” said Tom Valent, chief business officer at Aidoc.
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DATE: May 13, 2026 at 09:13AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: AI medical devices’ dirty FDA secret
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I’ve been loving the satire on the “In Preparation” Substack, which includes fake articles like “Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna Leaves Science For Trade School, Tells Postdocs ‘Learn Welding While You Can.’”
I’ll be in San Francisco May 18 – 20 for the STAT Breakthrough West Summit. Even if you can’t make it to our very cool event, let me know if you want to meet up and talk AI or data, have a cool lab to show me, or just want to grab some ice cream: [email protected]
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DATE: April 8, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Everyone agrees AI scribes are increasing health care costs. No one agrees what to do about it
To hear health systems tell the story, artificial intelligence tools like ambient scribes are helping not only reduce doctor burnout, but also increasing payments from insurers that haven’t been compensating them properly. But on insurer earnings calls, the payers position themselves as white knights sounding the alarm on providers using AI to raise health care costs to an unsustainable level.
However, at least behind closed doors, both sides appear to agree that AI scribes are driving up health care costs.
“The investors, the health plans, and the providers, in private, were like, ‘OK, well, it’s quite clear scribes are increasing coding intensity. One hundred percent,’” said Caroline Pearson, executive director at the Peterson Health Technology Institute, describing a roundtable PHTI held earlier this year. The nonprofit institute, founded in 2023, evaluates the impact of new technologies on health care costs and quality.
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DATE: March 10, 2026 at 09:31AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: Health AI startup to benefit from $1 billion funding round for Yann LeCun’s AMI
URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/10/ai-ami-yann-lecun-nabla-lebrun-world-model/?utm_campaign=rss
Tons of news today and not just because there is a big health tech conference (HIMSS) happening in the desert. First up, how an AI scribe company might benefit from a big new AI fundraise.
‘World model’ developer tied to Nabla gets $1 billion
Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI), the new company from former Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, announced it had raised $1 billion for its quest to develop “world models.” This is a health tech story because AI documentation company Nabla will have early access to this new technology as it aims for an edge in a crowded field of companies trying to automate complex and laborious health care work. AMI’s new CEO Alex LeBrun is the co-founder and CEO of Nabla, and LeCun is one of Nabla’s investors. There’s no formal equity or licensing agreement relationship yet between AMI and Nabla, but the companies are already working closely together, Nabla COO Delphine Groll told me.
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URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/10/ai-ami-yann-lecun-nabla-lebrun-world-model/?utm_campaign=rss
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DATE: March 5, 2026 at 02:00PM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Patient health data as a public utility: A former ARPA-H data chief explains
Last year, the Department of Health and Human Services published a sweeping document that described the agency’s approach to real-world data. Historically, health and biomedical data has been intentionally manufactured, the output of carefully designed clinical trials. But in a digitized world, it can instead be mined — and patients’ interactions with the health care system are the natural resource.
The Living HHS Open Data Plan, published in July, proposed treating data more like we do other natural resources. “At the core” of the plan, it reads, “lies the concept that data is a ‘public utility’ for good that powers scientific advancement, innovation, and progress.” Patients should have access to that utility, HHS argued, but it should also be easier to leverage for research, safety monitoring, and other uses in the public interest.
On Thursday, a group of researchers, former agency officials, and health data companies continued that call in a policy forum published in Science. If health data is to be treated like a public utility, they write, it should be similarly governed. Like electricity, the system would have to involve customers, local distribution companies, transmission companies, generators, and the government.
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DATE: February 23, 2026 at 11:18AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Medicare’s AI ‘modernization’ project, and the Ohio hospital antitrust battle
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Welp, the Winter Olympics are over. Guess it’s time to watch the new pro curling league. Sweep your tips and commentary this direction: [email protected].
The AI ‘modernization’ project at CMS
In the not-too-distant future, the entire process of finding Medicare coverage may be influenced by artificial intelligence — a development that would allow this technology to guide one of the most important decisions that older adults and people with disabilities make.
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DATE: February 04, 2026 at 02:17PM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Epic launches AI Charting, potentially scrambling the ambient scribe market
The nation’s largest electronic health record company, Epic Systems, today announced more details around its long-anticipated AI Charting feature, which could disrupt the market for ambient scribes. Several health systems are piloting the tools now, the company said.
“I almost bristle a little when people are like, ‘Oh, it’s an AI scribe,’ and I’m like, ‘No, no it’s a scribe, but that’s passive. We really want this to be active,’” said Jackie Gerhart, chief medical officer at Epic, in a call with STAT ahead of the announcement. “We’re just going to keep adding more besides just notes. So it’s going to be orders, it’s going to be diagnoses.”
Epic is hardly the first mover in the ambient scribe space, but given the company’s dominance in the EHR space it can leverage its huge platform and armory of patient records as the reason its product is superior to others. Epic holds 42% of the acute hospital EHR market and 55% of beds, with the next-largest company, Oracle Health trailing behind at 23% of the market and 22% of beds.
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DATE: January 13, 2026 at 09:46AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: OpenEvidence promises ‘medical super-intelligence’ at JPM. What is it?
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OpenEvidence promises ‘medical super-intelligence’
It will be hard for OpenEvidence to top its 2025. The company announced nearly $500 million in funding last year and seemingly overnight became a go-to tool in the medical profession. A slide during the company’s Monday JPM presentation claims that queries to the company’s clinical evidence chatbot grew from 2.6 million in 2024 to 17.9 million in December 2025, with well over 100 million queries for the year.
The company also revealed it will be launching “medical super-intelligence.” What does that mean? Katie Palmer explains in a new story.
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What Shape is Your Story Structure?
5 diagrams to help you design and direct your fiction or memoir‘s' narrative Continue reading on The Writing Cooperative »
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DATE: December 11, 2025 at 08:25AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: HHS health IT chief hints at a new approach to EHR certification
URL: https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/11/hhs-new-approach-ehr-certification-health-tech/?utm_campaign=rss
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At a health care AI summit in Washington D.C. yesterday, heavy hitters weighed in on the prospects for interoperability — the effort to make health data currently scattered about the health care system more readily accessible to patients, their providers, and maybe even researchers. A few comments of note:
•This was news to me: Thomas Keane who is the top health IT regulator at HHS said that before Christmas his office hopes to introduce a rule that would eliminate 34 certification criteria for electronic medical records and modify seven. These certification criteria have been much maligned for various reasons including that they create a huge burden on small companies that might want to compete with dominant vendors like Epic Systems.
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•“We would like the EHR companies to have to do less conformance testing and concern themselves less with this aspect of our regulatory regime,” said Keane. “What we will pivot towards in the spring is regulating the application programming interfaces by which the EHRs talk to each other. And we can say that you have to adopt these features, you have to support this functionality, and if that functionality exists, then these EHRs and other technological applications in the ecosystem should all be able to talk to each other.”
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•Investor Vijay Pande has resurfaced following his exit from Andreessen Horowitz‘s Bio & Health team earlier this year. He now has a new healthcare AI fund called VZ.VC that he’s not really ready to talk about yet, even though it’s on his LinkedIn profile.
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•Pande offered an intentionally provocative take on the prospects for interoperability: “I think it’s never going to happen. I think there’s not enough market forces to drive that… I think there’s reasons why we haven’t seen it — It’s not the technology.”
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Debate on state AI laws heats up
The health AI summit — where I spent most of yesterday a stone’s throw from the White House — was headlined by deputy health secretary Jim O’Neill. I wrapped up a number of his comments in a story, but most provocative was what he didn’t say: When event host Joe Grogan asked about a controversial proposal to prevent states from enforcing their AI laws, O’Neill demurred, saying only that in general he supported fighting state regulation on AI.
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From Crutch to Choice — How to Not Write Like AI
As a writer today, everyone suspects AI — especially if you use ‘that' dash. Continue reading on The Writing Cooperative »
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Tricks and Tips Regarding “Swang” vs. “Swung”
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DATE: October 06, 2025 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: From erectile dysfunction to weight loss, how telehealth got hooked on drug-first thinking
The cacti started sprouting up in subway stations. On the walls of New York City’s MTA stations and street corners in San Francisco, ads for the telehealth company Hims displayed a menagerie of spiky succulents. One had a familiar bulbous tip and a slight Tower of Pisa lean. Another drooped sadly over its terracotta pot, sharing a message: “Hard, made easy.”
The cheeky ads for erectile dysfunction drugs were inescapable in city centers around 2018. “Erectile dysfunction meds prescribed online, delivered to your ‘friend’s’ door,” read a subway ad from Roman, now known as Ro — pitching patients on a new form of discreet, convenient virtual care.
When these campaigns launched, created by some of the same agencies behind direct-to-consumer brands like Warby Parker and Harry’s, virtual visits were a novelty for most patients. Since then, telehealth has become a growing part of the health care system in the United States — and an increasingly valuable marketing funnel. Telehealth began as a way to help patients access doctors, but it has rapidly transformed into a way to help companies sell drugs.
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DATE: September 25, 2025 at 03:38PM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: New breast cancer screening trial may answer key AI question
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Proving the potential of AI screenings
Artificial intelligence may help radiologists spot disease, but throwing the technology at millions of CT scans or mammograms is not without risks to patients and may drive up costs without showing much benefit. Katie Palmer reports on two efforts to prove out the potential:
•A large randomized controlled trial will explore the value of AI-aided mammography in screening for breast cancer. The technology is already widely used in the U.S., but the best evidence that it’s useful comes from Europe. The $16 million trial is funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Read more on what researchers may find here.
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•Next month, NYU Langone Health will begin checking bone density in CT scans of people over 65 for osteoporosis, a condition that often goes undetected until someone breaks a bone. The health system may expand the work if it’s proven to help. This kind of opportunistic screening, which repurposes otherwise acquired scans, could be used to identify many treatable conditions. Katie’s interview is worth a read.
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‘HIPAA compliant’ and other health data myths
A company marketing itself as “HIPAA compliant” may be a good sign it doesn’t know what its talking about, Brittany Trang reports. There’s no government body that certifies that a company’s practices are in line with the 1996 patient data privacy law. The commonly used phrase sends a cold shiver down the back of lawyers who know that any claim of 100% compliance is likely misleading. Brittany also unpacks “de-identified data” and other misunderstood ideas.
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DATE: September 18, 2025 at 10:18AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Fresh data on hospital AI use & Califf dishes on tech
URL: https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/18/hospital-ai-use-data-onc-califf-fda-aha/?utm_campaign=rss
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Califf warns AI in health care ‘overhyped’
On a makeshift stage in a Midtown Manhattan office earlier this week,former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf struck a measured tone about the potential for artificial intelligence in health care. Asked whether the technology was overhyped he said it was. “I hear way too much about the money. I’m not hearing a lot of human values coming through discussions,” he said. Adding:
“Almost all of the technology is being applied to optimizing the financial status of healthcare delivery entities or companies that are making medical products and that’s not aligned with equitable, better patient outcomes. So until someone puts a soul back in the system, I think it’s going to get worse and worse.”
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The Editor’s Wall
Why ‘Follow the Guidelines' Isn't Enough Anymore Continue reading on The Writing Cooperative »
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DATE: July 17, 2025 at 02:00PM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: Undruggable ‘disordered’ proteins become druggable with new AI techniques from David Baker
For decades, structural biologists shoved what looked like shoddy data in the back of their closets, embarrassed. While attempting to gather the structures of proteins, they would sometimes find that all or at least a portion of the protein would just not show up correctly in the data.
Joel Sussman, a former head of the Protein Data Bank, remembers when he found his first intrinsically disordered protein, though it wasn’t called that at the time. He showed it to a collaborator. “‘Oh, Joel, you’re not a very good biochemist. Obviously, it has a structure and you’re confused,’” he recalled her saying.
Most proteins fold into shapes with distinct elements: the ordered spiral of an alpha-helix, like a piece of cavatappi pasta; or beta sheets, like a slice of a lasagna — squiggly lines of pasta amino acids held parallel to each other with cheesy and saucy hydrogen bonds. A central tenet of structural biology is that a protein’s structure dictates its function. But around the same time that the world was preparing for Y2K, structural biologists finally began admitting that — just as Sussman and other scientists had seen — not all proteins have a permanent shape. A surprisingly large amount of important proteins (in fact, over half of all proteins in eukaryotes, it’s estimated) have strands of wiggly “spaghetti” in them.
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DATE: June 26, 2025 at 09:08AM
SOURCE: STAT HEALTH TECHTITLE: STAT+: After Best Buy sale, what’s next for Current Health
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This week, Best Buy‘s home health subsidiary Current Health revealed it was once again an independent company run by cofounder Chris McGhee, who left the company in 2024. McGhee told me he plans to focus Current on home hospital offerings and other high-acuity care opportunities, and to move the company toward profitability. Details of the deal were not specified and McGhee declined to discuss them.
Best Buy acquired Current Health for about $400 million in late 2021 at a time when many large companies far afield from health care were looking for ways to capitalize on the enthusiasm around health technology. Current’s prospects looked very good as the number of hospital-at-home programs had grown significantly following a 2020 Medicare waiver that allowed hospitals to bill this care like an ordinary impatient visit.
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We Need More Novels that Emphasize the Basic Humanity of Immigrants
A review of ‘Emerald Road' by Orlando Ortega-Medina Continue reading on The Writing Cooperative »
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