Katie M. Palmer
Health Tech Reporter at STAT
health tech reporter @statnews | former science & health editor @WIRED @qz | @JSKStanford '19 | she/her | katie dot palmer at statnews dot com
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1 week ago |
statnews.com | Katie M. Palmer
RadNet, which runs nearly 400 radiology imaging centers in the United States, wants to put artificial intelligence into breast imaging. Over the last five years, the company has moved aggressively to expand its AI capabilities, deploying the technology for breast cancer screenings at its radiology practices. There, patients can pay $40 out-of-pocket for an algorithm to screen their mammogram, with a double-check if the AI says something different than the human radiologist reading the same scan.
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2 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Katie M. Palmer
Editor’s note: This story contains a description of self-harm. Oncologist Mark Lewis has never had much of a poker face. When he walked into his cancer patient’s visit in 2022, he was wearing a big smile: The nodules in his patient’s lungs, he saw in the radiology report, were shrinking in response to treatment. His patient, though, was already upset. “Before I could even say a thing,” Lewis recalled, “he said, ‘Why are you smiling? This is terrible news.’”
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3 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Katie M. Palmer
The changes to medical records hit federal systems first. In February, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services removed sexual orientation and gender identity questions from enrollment forms for Medicare beneficiaries, and the U.S. DOGE Service said it had removed gender identity from the personal information pages of Veterans Health Administration patients. Now, the Trump administration’s efforts to strip these demographics from patient forms have reached the private sector.
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4 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Elaine Chen |Katie M. Palmer
For the last year, Eli Lilly has been rapidly expanding a new website that connects patients with telehealth providers specialized in certain conditions it also sells drugs for, such as diabetes, obesity, and migraines. It’s now adding on another, one that pushes the envelope of telemedicine: Alzheimer’s. Patients with conditions like obesity or migraines have the option of directly ordering medications on this platform, called LillyDirect, and getting them delivered to their home.
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4 weeks ago |
statnews.com | Katie M. Palmer
In recent months, a new kind of partnership between telehealth companies and pharmaceutical manufacturers has come under scrutiny over concerns that such arrangements could lead to inappropriate prescriptions and poor care.
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