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An AI tool aims to catch harder-to-detect heart attacks in EKGs
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (264+ words) STAT is a media company focused on finding and telling compelling stories about health, medicine, and scientific discovery. We produce daily news, investigative articles, and narrative projects in addition to multimedia features, podcasts, and opinion pieces. We tell our stories…...
Can AI save rural health care?
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (144+ words) STAT is a media company focused on finding and telling compelling stories about health, medicine, and scientific discovery. We produce daily news, investigative articles, and narrative projects in addition to multimedia features, podcasts, and opinion pieces. We tell our stories…...
Oz says ‘AI-based avatars’ can help rural communities. Some leaders disagree
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (616+ words) OK, here’s the news, including three AI-related items. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services head Mehmet Oz and other Trump administration officials are touting artificial intelligence as a game-changing force for rural health. But some rural hospitals are skeptical the…...
Trump officials say AI will help save rural health care. Some leaders in the field don’t believe it
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (1351+ words) Payne traveled to Maine and Louisiana to report on rural health systems and interviewed health AI experts and vendors for this story. It is the fourth installment in STAT’s Unraveled series, which explores the consequences of President Trump’s unprecedented cuts…...
U.K. unveils recommendations for regulating AI in medicine
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (188+ words) LONDON — A U.K. commission on Thursday unveiled its recommendations for how the country should regulate artificial intelligence in medicine, as health authorities globally try to determine how to continuously review ever-changing products after they have been authorized instead of simply clearing…...
ARPA-H to invest $62 million to develop FDA-authorized AI to help treat heart failure
3+ day, 23+ hour ago (211+ words) STAT ARPA-H to invest $62 million to develop FDA-authorized AI to help treat heart failure Program aims to create ‘autonomous prescribing cardiologists’ that plug gaps in care Mario covers technology in health care, including FDA regulation of artificial intelligence; how Medicare…...
Can AI fix the emergency room?
4+ day, 56+ min ago (270+ words) STAT is a media company focused on finding and telling compelling stories about health, medicine, and scientific discovery. We produce daily news, investigative articles, and narrative projects in addition to multimedia features, podcasts, and opinion pieces. We tell our stories…...
Autonomous AI will beat AI-assisted physicians at some medical tasks by 2030
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (422+ words) By Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Abe Baker-Butler Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Abe Butler-Baker have been debating the proper place for AI in medicine with American Medical Association CEO John Whyte. Now, they are taking their discussion to STAT’s First Opinion. Read Emanuel…...
AMA CEO: AI won’t replace doctors — it will work alongside them
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (1001+ words) Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Abe Butler-Baker have been debating the proper place for AI in medicine with American Medical Association CEO John Whyte. Now, they are taking their discussion to STAT’s First Opinion. Read Whyte’s essay below and read Emanuel and…...
Can AI fix health care? In the chaos of emergency rooms, the technology comes up short
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (175+ words) BOSTON — The building that houses the Brigham and Women’s Hospital emergency department opened in 2022. But by 2025, it was already too small. One early September evening, the emergency room had 59 patients — 152, if you counted everyone in the waiting room. “In terms…...