Description
Technology is rapidly changing the world of health care for both patients and providers. Health systems are deploying artificial intelligence tools to diagnose diseases, predict people’s health risks, and streamline work for clinicians. Remote monitoring devices — ranging from connected glucose monitors to heart- monitoring smartwatches — are opening the door to managing disease from a distance. And telemedicine is booming as patients look for more convenient ways to access care, a shift accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Those advances were front and center at this year’s STAT Health Tech Summit, which brought together researchers, policy experts, and top executives working at the intersection of health and technology, including leaders from Google Health, Teladoc, Livongo, 23andMe, and Fitbit.
This e-book includes all of STAT’s coverage of the event, as well as select coverage of other topics in health tech. Those stories include a look at how Lyft’s growing health business is trying to close gaps in health care access and an examination of how AI could reduce existing biases in health care — or exacerbate them.
Taken together, the stories capture the enormous promise of technology to make health care more accessible — and underscore the pitfalls that could get in the way of health tech reaching its true potential.
