Casey Ross
National hospitals writer for STAT, corn farmer
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Departure of top Haven executive creates void at a crucial stage
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Stoddard's departure is a tough blow for a company still getting its legs underneath it in a cutthroat and complicated industry.
Why we're launching this newsletter, Tel Aviv's influence, & the need for a scorecard
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Casey Ross The first edition of STAT Health Tech is out! The news includes: -- A new FDA clearance for -- The pitch for a 'digital health scorecard' -- And 's quiet brain-human interface co. starts to makes some noise 4d
Hospitals look to computers to predict patient emergencies
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The Cleveland Clinic’s goal is to give front-line clinicians notice of serious cardiac events an hour or more before they happen.
A new data aims to help AI work better for biotech — and it’s free
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Recursion Pharmaceuticals released a free data set of more than 125,000 images of four different cell types collected through a microscope.
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Casey Ross There’s a massive new data set that aims to help artificial intelligence work better for biotech... via 13d
Study highlights challenges using AI to personalize cancer therapy
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The study reported that the algorithm got tripped up by demographic and language variations, and differences in how tumor tests were recorded in reports.
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Casey Ross Artificial intelligence is only revolutionary in medicine in theory. This work by highlights that implementing it in practice takes a lot of time and effort, despite the many marketing messages to the contrary. via 13d
Aim your baloney detector at the BS in health care
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BS, long common in American discourse about politics and sports has begun creeping into health care. Here are 10 good examples of it.
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Casey Ross “Health care has an acute BS problem.” via 16d
5 names to know: the team leading Microsoft into health care
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Over the past year, Microsoft has built a nucleus of physician executives to guide its work in health care. Here are people you’ll want to keep an eye on.
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Casey Ross Microsoft has amassed dozens of health related patents in recent years and is working on multiple fronts (cloud, remote monitoring) to disrupt the delivery of medicine. Here are the people behind its work: via 18d
Primary care experiment's impact depends on answers to these questions
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Here’s a quick rundown on the implications of the new federal primary care initiative and the issues to be ironed out in the months ahead.
A machine learning device, meant for chronically ill, moves into homes
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The device, called Current, is already used in hospitals, but FDA clearance means it can monitor patients at home, in between visits with their doctors.
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Casey Ross Digital health news: clears a remote patient monitoring device by that uses #AI to keep watch on the chronically ill in their homes via 25d
Medicare proposes boosting payments for CAR-T and other new therapies
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The Trump administration wants to increase how much Medicare pays for CAR-T cancer therapies and similar breakthrough devices and drugs.
U.S. health officials unveil experiment to overhaul primary care
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The initiative includes five payment options for providers, allowing them to take varying levels of financial risk for improving care and lowering costs.
IBM halting sales of Watson AI tool for drug discovery
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The decision to shut down sales of Watson for Drug Discovery marks another setback in the company’s effort to apply AI to various areas of health care.
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Casey Ross Exclusive news this morning: IBM is halting sales of its Watson AI tool to help pharma companies discover new drugs. The co’s struggle reveals the difficulty of scaling AI in medicine via 31d
The key players behind Amazon's health care push
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Amazon’s health executives mostly work in secret, but in recent months the fruits of their labor have begun filtering through the marketplace.
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Casey Ross Want to know what Amazon is up to in health care? Follow the work of these five execs. as part of our series on the people at Big Tech Cos. who are driving disruption of medicine, pharmacy, and pharma R&D via 32d
What ex-Pentagon chief Ash Carter learned about AI in combat
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As defense secretary, Ash Carter insisted on human oversight of AI-enabled weapons. “You guys are the same way, right?" he asked a roomful of doctors.
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Casey Ross Advice on the use of AI, in medicine and combat, from former U.S. Defense Sec. Ash Carter: ‘I have a moral responsibility to know how the hell it happened that innocent human life was taken.’ via 37d
Amazon Alexa now HIPAA-compliant, allows secure access to data
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Perhaps more significant than the individual uses is Alexa’s ability to now traffic in patient information protected by the HIPAA health privacy law.
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Casey Ross BREAKING: Amazon just unveiled a privacy-compliant version of Alexa for health care -- a move that opens the door to more uses in homes and clinical settings. My story here: via 45d
Digital health startups want to help Medicare prevent diabetes
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Digital health startups are pressuring Congress and other officials to allow them to participate in a Medicare program aimed at preventing diabetes.
FDA developing new rules for artificial intelligence in medicine
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These machine-learning systems present a particularly thorny problem for the FDA, because it's essentially trying to hit a moving target in regulating them.
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Casey Ross The FDA is developing new rules for the use of artificial intelligence in medicine -- a crucial step to getting its arms around a rapidly evolving field. My story here, with thanks to for his analysis. via 47d
Seller of real world data wants to eliminate health care's blindspots
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Real world evidence, Aetion's Magill said, is "more cost effective and we get the drug into the hands of people who need it much more quickly."
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Casey Ross Really enjoyed this Q&A with CEO Carolyn Magill on the use of real world data to improve decision-making by pharma cos., hospitals and insurers. Also important caveat on the need for transparency in how these data are applied. via 48d
Artificial intelligence's inroads in medicine on display at Datapalooza
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Government officials hammered home the need for greater sharing of de-identified patient information between institutions.
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Casey Ross I was struck by the pace of AI’s advances in medicine, but lack of data access and portability remains a huge barrier to making the most of the opportunities to improve care. via 51d
North Dakota has too few psychiatrists. Telemedicine is helping
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Expanding telemedicine has given North Dakota a way to reach more patients — and convince more psychiatrists to practice in the state.
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Casey Ross North Dakota doesn’t have enough psychiatrists. reports telemedicine is helping to fix that: 'If they just get to their little town clinic and we can beam them in, it makes a huge difference.' via 52d