The Lab · 2026-04-01 20:56:54 · STAT News
A major real-world study of AI scribes has delivered a sobering verdict: the technology, touted as a solution for physician burnout, is yielding only modest time savings and is being used inconsistently across clinical settings. The research, involving 1,800 clinicians across five academic medical centers from 2023 to ...
The Lab · 2026-04-02 15:57:19 · The Verge
A seven-year quest to get AI-powered mental health diagnostics past U.S. regulators has ended in failure and dissolution. Kintsugi, a California startup, is shutting down after failing to secure FDA clearance for its software designed to detect signs of depression and anxiety from a person's vocal patterns. The company...
The Lab · 2026-04-02 21:57:16 · TechCrunch
Hims & Hers, a major U.S. telehealth provider, has disclosed a significant security breach where hackers infiltrated its customer support system. The attackers successfully exfiltrated customer support ticket data over a period of several days in February, exposing sensitive communications between the company and its u...
The Lab · 2026-04-15 13:53:01 · STAT News
A $15 AI-powered diagnostic test, developed under the secretive banner of 'Project Glasswing,' was deployed in a pilot program that caught the Utah Medical Board completely off guard. The initiative, spearheaded by the company Doctronic, represents a direct and unannounced incursion of artificial intelligence into regu...
The Network · 2026-04-17 00:52:37 · STAT News
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is actively considering terminating a critical payment pathway designed to accelerate patient access to FDA-designated breakthrough medical devices. This potential policy reversal directly threatens a key financial bridge for novel technologies, creating immediate unce...