Mario Aguilar

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Health and Technology Reporter at STAT

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Why RFK Jr.’s data plans might hit a real world snag

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. Federal health department leaders have touted the potential of using patient data, including health records, to study autism, chronic disease, vaccine injuries, and more.
Google chief health officer Dr. Karen says farewell

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. Google’s chief health officer Karen DeSalvo announced she will retire this summer.
A closer look at the health tech executive leading Medicare

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. As of last week, Chris Klomp is in charge of the Center for Medicare. Unlike predecessors, he’s not a policy wonk. Klomp was formerly the CEO of health IT company Collective Medical, which he sold, in 2020, for hundreds of millions of dollars.
A closer look at the health tech executive leading Medicare

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Mario Aguilar

2 hours agoThings were dire in the United States on January 20, 1937 as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took the oath of office for his second term. Indeed, they were severe everywhere, as the world was still reeling from the onset, in 1929, of the Great Depression, the worst global financial disaster in …
This health tech exec is in charge of Medicare, and he has big ambitions

2 weeks ago | statnews.com | Mario Aguilar

In keeping with the Trump administration’s quest to slash spending at the federal health department, it’s hired a famously thrifty technology entrepreneur to lead Medicare. As the CEO of health IT company Collective Medical, Chris Klomp flew bargain-priced Frontier Airlines and once boasted about sleeping in rental cars and crummy motels on business trips. The office snacks were from Costco.
What Trump's AI memos mean for health care

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 new memos released this month, the Trump administration spelled out its approach to artificial intelligence. At first glance, one might see similarities between the directives and former President Biden’s lengthy AI executive order.
What Trump's AI memos mean for health care

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Mario Aguilar

4 hours agoGo from text prompts to slide decks in minutes with CNET's guide on creating a PowerPoint presentation using artificial intelligence tools. If you've ever spent hours perfecting a slide deck, only for it to be unused or be over the top, then there's a way you can bypass working long hours to whip …
Big changes coming to federal health IT regulator?

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. 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

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. 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

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 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.