Mario Aguilar

New York

Health and Technology Reporter at STAT

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Nabla raises $70 million as market for AI tools to help doctors heats up

1 week ago | statnews.com | Mario Aguilar

Artificial intelligence developer Nabla has raised $70 million as the company looks to expand its software that automates clinical note-taking to additional applications, like billing. The fundraise, led by HV Capital, follows rapid adoption of ambient scribe technology among health systems hoping to address clinician burnout.
AMA takes on new billing codes for AI, and Omada execs on IPO

2 weeks ago | statnews.com | Mario Aguilar

You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday. Today, the AMA tackles AI. Plus: takeaways from the Omada IPO.
As Omada goes public, executives reflect on why profits are elusive in digital health

3 weeks ago | statnews.com | Mario Aguilar

Fourteen years after launching to help make a dent in the United States’ swelling chronic disease problem, Omada Health went public on Friday, raising $150 million at just over a $1 billion valuation. Before going public, Omada raised $450 million from investors as it helped normalize digital health and convinced an impressive number of people to try it. Omada has over 2,000 customers, including employers and health plans, and roughly 680,000 people enrolled in its programs.
Exclusive: OpenEvidence's new JAMA deal & Medicare's DC tech party

3 weeks ago | statnews.com | Mario Aguilar

You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday. Today, an update from a hyped health AI unicorn. Plus: Readouts from a Medicare event in DC. Was this email forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe for free twice weekly updates about how technology is transforming health care and life sciences.
HHS has a new national health IT coordinator

3 weeks ago | statnews.com | Mario Aguilar

You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday. Today, updates on AI projects from FDA, CMS, and NIH. Plus: We hear there’s a National Coordinator for Health IT in place. And: FDA clears a novel device for predicting breast cancer onset.
Medicare plots ambitious tech agenda guided by former Palantir, Main Street Health executives

4 weeks ago | statnews.com | Mario Aguilar

Two agencies in the federal health department are plotting what officials say will be an ambitious tech modernization push to promote better care for people on Medicare and beyond. And they’ve tapped some veteran technology entrepreneurs to lead the charge. Officials have floated lofty examples of what may come in the future, like artificial intelligence tools to advise patients on their health conditions and real-time information to guide clinicians in decision-making.
Amazon roots run deep at new health care marketplace startup

4 weeks ago | statnews.com | Mario Aguilar

You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday. Today, a look at the growing use of AI for breast cancer screening. Plus, the deep Amazon connections of General Medicine, the new digital health care marketplace from PillPack founders.
Amazon roots run deep at new health care marketplace startup

4 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Mario Aguilar

3 hours agoHow to find purpose in an age where even our thinking and creativity can be outsourced to AI. Human beings are wired to seek meaning — a subjective sense that life is coherent, purposeful, and significant (even though, in objective terms, it is none of that). From early cognitive psychologists like …
As Hinge Health goes public, CEO outlines goal: ‘We’re automating care itself’

1 month ago | statnews.com | Mario Aguilar

Digital physical therapy company Hinge Health went public Thursday morning, raising $437 million at a $2.6 billion valuation. The company is a crucial test case for whether digital health companies, for all their glitz and ambition, can produce real business results. CEO Dan Perez, who co-founded the company in 2014, knows that people are watching. After dozens of companies went public from 2020 to 2022, it’s been quiet for years.
Medtronic plans to break off diabetes business

1 month ago | statnews.com | Mario Aguilar

You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday. Today, big tech companies team up with specialty societies to help doctors. ACC releases guide to medical use of Apple WatchThe American College of Cardiology this week released a resource for doctors and patients about the Apple Watch’s heart monitoring technology.