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UPDATED: After STAT's report that the FDA was going to release the AI tool tomorrow, the agency released it today ❄️Have you used Elsa? Is it "a bit of a fixer-upper" or a great step "into the unknown"? Would love to hear your experiences. Confidential line: btrang.01 on Signal

Little scoop in today's STAT Health Tech newsletter: Thomas Keane officially started as the health department's top Health IT regulator this week. statnews.com/2025/06/03/hhs…

Internal document shows how UnitedHealth executives prepared to tamp down investor unrest statnews.com/2025/06/04/uni… via STAT

Exclusive: OpenEvidence’s new JAMA deal & Medicare’s DC tech party statnews.com/2025/06/05/ope… via STAT

LATEST: A conservative culture cost Novo Nordisk its lead in the obesity drug race, former employees told me It wanted to tread carefully as the first mover in the space, and its belief in Ozempic/Wegovy blinded it to other candidates, they said statnews.com/2025/06/05/nov…

Whenever I'm feeling low, I remind myself that at least I'm not that guy who committed Medicare fraud and emailed his co-conspirators: “WOWIE!!!!! HOW DO WE GET SOME MORE OF THAT???!!!!!!!” statnews.com/2022/06/01/doj… Anyway, happy Friday.

As Omada goes public, executives reflect on why profits are elusive in digital health statnews.com/2025/06/06/oma… via STAT

!!! Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel statnews.com/2025/06/09/rfk… via STAT

23andMe leaders grilled on genetic data risks by federal lawmakers statnews.com/2025/06/10/23a…

Coalition for Health AI will help Joint Commission write responsible AI ‘playbooks’ statnews.com/2025/06/10/exc… via STAT

Novo Nordisk ends deal with Hims due to compounding concerns with obesity drugs statnews.com/2025/06/23/nov… via STAT

Why this health tech investor thinks AI could bring the ‘learning health system’ to life statnews.com/2025/06/24/bre… via STAT

thank you to Mario Aguilar of STAT for the thoughtful coverage of our work! statnews.com/2025/06/24/bre…

DeepMind launches AlphaGenome, aiming to predict gene regulation from DNA sequence statnews.com/2025/06/25/goo… via STAT

Many medical devices deemed ‘breakthrough’ by FDA are backed by patchy evidence statnews.com/2025/06/30/are… via STAT

Senate passes Trump’s tax-cut bill that would slash Medicaid spending statnews.com/2025/07/01/sen… via STAT

I wrote about what happened to Woebot, an early therapy chatbot that shut down this week. The company came up before ChatGPT made talking to bots normal. But adding the tech to Woebot would've been very difficult on an already challenging FDA path. statnews.com/2025/07/02/woe…

.Mario Aguilar breaks down the recent news and history around the Woebot mental health chatbot and what happens when FDA regulation, generative AI, market forces, and science converge. Out today in STAT news with quotes from me and others: statnews.com/2025/07/02/woe…

Super interesting STAT from Mario Aguilar about fate of Woebot Health (in area w huge promise IMHO) which recently shut down. statnews.com/2025/07/02/woe… Mgmt: less-than-agile FDA unable to deal with tech. At least as significant: struggle of rules-based-tech in genAI world.

A GPT-powered medical device certified in Europe raises questions about generative AI in health care statnews.com/2025/07/03/ai-… via STAT