Anthropic reported five cases in which people used its models for work that could support biological weapons development, including help preparing a gain-of-function research proposal on a mosquito-bo…
STAT's Health Tech newsletter reports on Epic's mortality model and Omada's future products, according to the newsletter's co-author Mario, who covers FDA regulation of artificial intelligence, Medica…
James Deardorff, a geriatrician and assistant professor in the division of geriatrics at the University of California San Francisco, published a commentary in JAMA Network Open this month on a large a…
STAT's Health Tech newsletter, co-authored by Mario Aguilar, covered a "Zocdoc for chatbots" concept and updates to Medicare's ACCESS program in its latest edition. The newsletter, published twice wee…
Medicare's AI-driven prior authorization pilot, the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) model, launched in January in New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, and Washington and wi…
The Food and Drug Administration granted a rare de novo classification to Powerful Medical for an AI model that helps triage chest-pain patients during a heart attack, the agency's DEN250044 authoriza…
The FDA expanded its approval of a Bayer lung cancer drug, according to STAT+. The same STAT+ brief notes regulators are working to keep pace with agentic medical AI and that the FDA launched a projec…
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services head Mehmet Oz and other Trump administration officials are promoting artificial intelligence as a transformative force for rural health, while some rural ho…
Rural health providers and health AI experts are disputing the Trump administration's claim that artificial intelligence can offset nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts over the coming decade, with Lor…
A U.K. commission on Thursday unveiled 44 recommendations for regulating artificial intelligence in medicine, aiming to balance AI's potential in health care with safety, continuous performance tracki…
ARPA-H will invest $62.7 million to develop FDA-authorized AI agents for treating heart failure, announcing the first $33.7 million in awards to Atman Health, UpDoc, Tempus AI, Stanford University, Du…
STAT's AI Prognosis newsletter reports that ambient AI scribes, which transcribe patient-clinician conversations, address only a small fraction of emergency department workflow problems, according to …
In the chaos of emergency rooms, AI technology falls short, according to a STAT+ report featuring Brigham and Women's Hospital emergency physician Christopher Baugh. The hospital's ER, opened in 2022,…
STAT+ reports that Seattle scientists have launched a $95 million AI biology effort, with Nobel laureate David Baker unveiling a new accelerator to use AI to map nature's design rules. The initiative …
OpenEvidence, a medical AI company, has launched a new family of AI models, according to STAT+. The models are designed to help clinicians access medical information more efficiently, and the company …
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has provisionally accepted four generative AI medical devices, including products from Cadence and Limbic, into its TEMPO pilot program, allowing them to re…
A former ARPA-H director's startup is developing AI systems to address what it calls AI's 'dumb problems' in health care, according to a STAT+ subscriber-exclusive article. The startup aims to improve…
Daphne Koller, founder and CEO of AI biotech Insitro, discussed strategies to accelerate clinical trials in an interview with STAT, emphasizing the role of artificial intelligence in improving trial d…
Sword Health, a digital health company known for its AI-powered virtual physical therapy, plans to acquire mental health company Headspace, according to a regulatory filing. The deal, effective Septem…
STAT's five-part series by Daniel Payne explores how Republican funding cuts are reshaping the U.S. health care safety net. In a related development, Calley Means, an adviser to RFK Jr., said people s…