Mario Aguilar

New York

Health and Technology Reporter at STAT

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Big changes coming to federal health IT regulator?

1 week 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. Buried in a leaked draft budget from the Trump administration is an ask that may alarm (or elate?) health tech watchers.
Why Clear wants to get into health care market

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. From STAT’s Brittany Trang: Today Clear — yes, the people with the fast lanes at the the airport — announced the results of a study it did with e-prescriber-turned-health-information-network Surescripts.
Medical record fallout from Trump's executive orders

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. In March, an office at the federal health department announced it would not enforce requirements that electronic health records have fields to record and exchange patients’ sexual orientation and gender identity.
Do AI scribes help health systems save time?

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.
How health insurers are using AI today

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. Executives of the nation’s largest health insurance companies regularly highlight their use of AI tools in earnings calls and meetings with investors. But where they see opportunities for efficiency and increased savings, regulators see a potential crisis in the making.
Colonoscopy and AI: Experts weigh fuzzy evidence of benefit

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. A panel of experts at a leading speciality society announced in a new clinical guideline that they have decided not to decide whether to recommend AI-assisted colonoscopies.
Colonoscopy and AI: Experts weigh fuzzy evidence of benefit

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Mario Aguilar

17 hours ago'The universe has thrown us a curveball': Largest-ever map of space reveals we might have gotten dark energy totally wrongFindings from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest that dark energy could be evolving over time.
It's Dr. Oz's turn to tout health AI on the Hill

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. On Friday, Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, turned on the charisma and cruised through a confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee that featured a lot of substantive discussion of policy.
Study reveals how often medical device makers report safety incidents late to FDA

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. In a new study in the BMJ, researchers analyzed the Food and Drug Administration database where manufactures report adverse events and found that a huge number of reports come in late. Manufacturers are required to report issues within 30 days of finding out about them.
New Medicare telehealth data drops as industry waits on Congress

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. As lawmakers race to pass a bill to keep the government open by the end of the week, health tech is on the agenda. At the end of the month, policies that expanded Medicare coverage for telehealth during the pandemic will expire, unless Congress acts to extend them.