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@statnews

@statnews
11 posts
2023-03-14
A new industry has formed around Medicare Advantage plans to predict how many hours of therapy patients will need, which types of doctors they might see, and when they can leave a hospital or nursing home. https://www.statnews.com/...
2023-03-14 View on X
STAT

Insurers are using unregulated predictive algorithms to pinpoint the precise moment when they can plausibly cut off payment for the treatment of older patients

STAT : Tweets: @marshacollier and @maartenvsmeden Tweets: Marsha Collier / @marshacollier : How Medicare Advantage Plans Use #AI To Cut Off Care For Seniors Insurers are using unr...

Elderly people who spent their lives paying into Medicare, and are now facing amputation, fast-spreading cancers, and other devastating diagnoses, are left to either pay for their care themselves or get by without it. https://www.statnews.com/...
2023-03-14 View on X
STAT

Insurers are using unregulated predictive algorithms to pinpoint the precise moment when they can plausibly cut off payment for the treatment of older patients

STAT : Tweets: @marshacollier and @maartenvsmeden Tweets: Marsha Collier / @marshacollier : How Medicare Advantage Plans Use #AI To Cut Off Care For Seniors Insurers are using unr...

Insurers with huge financial interests are leveraging AI's power to help make life-altering decisions with little independent oversight. Read the full story from @caseymross and @bobjherman: https://www.statnews.com/...
2023-03-14 View on X
STAT

Insurers are using unregulated predictive algorithms to pinpoint the precise moment when they can plausibly cut off payment for the treatment of older patients

STAT : Tweets: @marshacollier and @maartenvsmeden Tweets: Marsha Collier / @marshacollier : How Medicare Advantage Plans Use #AI To Cut Off Care For Seniors Insurers are using unr...

2021-06-28
Over the last few years, hundreds of hospitals have plugged in the algorithm without verifying its advertised 80% accuracy rate. Then a group of researchers at the University of Michigan started asking questions about its performance. https://www.statnews.com/...
2021-06-28 View on X
Wired

Study: an algorithm developed by EHR provider Epic to predict sepsis infections in patients missed two-thirds of sepsis cases and frequently issued false alarms

Hundreds of hospitals have used an Epic algorithm to predict sepsis, a potentially fatal infection. New research finds it missed two-thirds of cases in one health system. https://www.statnews.com/...
2021-06-28 View on X
Wired

Study: an algorithm developed by EHR provider Epic to predict sepsis infections in patients missed two-thirds of sepsis cases and frequently issued false alarms

2021-06-27
Over the last few years, hundreds of hospitals have plugged in the algorithm without verifying its advertised 80% accuracy rate. Then a group of researchers at the University of Michigan started asking questions about its performance. https://www.statnews.com/...
2021-06-27 View on X
Wired

Study: an algorithm developed by EHR provider Epic to predict sepsis infections in patients missed two-thirds of sepsis cases and frequently issued false alarms

A study found that a system used to identify cases of sepsis missed most instances and frequently issued false alarms. Source: JAMA Network .

Hundreds of hospitals have used an Epic algorithm to predict sepsis, a potentially fatal infection. New research finds it missed two-thirds of cases in one health system. https://www.statnews.com/...
2021-06-27 View on X
Wired

Study: an algorithm developed by EHR provider Epic to predict sepsis infections in patients missed two-thirds of sepsis cases and frequently issued false alarms

A study found that a system used to identify cases of sepsis missed most instances and frequently issued false alarms. Source: JAMA Network .

2020-10-14
The racial bias can produce huge differences in assessing patients' need for special care to manage conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, or depression, a STAT investigation found. https://www.statnews.com/...
2020-10-14 View on X
STAT

Investigation: software used for targeting medical services to US patients is infusing racial bias into decision-making about who should receive stepped-up care

Casey Ross / STAT : Tweets: @frankpasquale , @rsvassellmd , @ravindranize , @docjeffd , @uche_blackstock , @erbrod , @statnews , and @rebeccadrobbins Tweets: Frank Pasquale / @fra...

2020-08-06
Telemedicine provider Teladoc Health and diabetes coaching company Livongo have agreed to merge in an $18.5 billion deal that will create the first true health tech giant in an era in which demand for virtual care is surging. https://www.statnews.com/...
2020-08-06 View on X
TechCrunch

Telemedicine provider Teladoc Health signs a $18.5B deal to buy Livongo, maker of connected devices for managing diabetes and other chronic conditions

In a sign of the growing importance and value of digital healthcare in the world of medicine, two of the industry's publicly traded companies …

2020-07-20
At a growing number of hospitals, clinicians use AI-powered tools to predict whether patients will deteriorate or even whether they're likely to die soon. Many are unproven — and often, families aren't told about the tools, a STAT examination found. https://www.statnews.com/...
2020-07-20 View on X
STAT

Many hospitals and clinics are introducing AI-powered decision support tools, often novel and unproven, but most patients are unaware of them

Since February of last year, tens of thousands of patients hospitalized at one of Minnesota's largest health systems have had their discharge … Tweets: @rebeccadrobbins , @statnews...

2020-05-10
Amazon is sharing its staff's expertise with scientists across the country working on the pandemic response — and digging into its deep pockets to fund a smattering of Covid-19 studies. https://www.statnews.com/...
2020-05-10 View on X
STAT

An overview of Amazon's efforts to fight COVID-19, from lending its staff expertise to funding research/clinical trials, and shipping at-home diagnostic tests

Shipping behemoth Amazon is increasingly throwing its weight into the pandemic response, sharing its staff's web and research design expertise … Tweets: @statnews , @undarkmag , an...