Cont. via @mariojoze.bsky.social: When there are complex instructions or tricky decisions need to be made, recordings & summaries can be helpful, esp for family or caregivers who were not in the room. But sensitive health data in consumer apps aren't subject to HIPAA. 🧵

"In early January, the Food and Drug Administration delivered on the Trump administration’s deregulatory promises by allowing more wellness products to be marketed without the agency’s authorization." Now, a flood of producrs that purportedly measure blood pressure. www.statnews.com/2026/05/28/f...

Blood pressure tech floods the market after FDA relaxes wearables oversight

Wearables with unvalidated blood pressure measuring tech are flooding the market after the FDA relaxed oversight of wellness devices.

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The new wave of blood pressure products could raise awareness about hypertension, which affects nearly half of American adults. But the unproven underlying technology could mislead users, and delay necessary care, @mariojoze.bsky.social reports: www.statnews.com/2026/05/28/f... via @statnews.com

Blood pressure tech floods the market after FDA relaxes wearables oversight

Wearables with unvalidated blood pressure measuring tech are flooding the market after the FDA relaxed oversight of wellness devices.

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I would also highly recommend Michelle Mello's article in @jamahealthforum.com "Utah’s Experiment With AI-Driven Prescription Renewals" which covers different issues, jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... And @statnews.com reporting from @mariojoze.bsky.social on this. www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/u...

AI could soon renew prescriptions without clinician help. Should the FDA make sure it's safe?

In a pilot, Utah is testing use of AI for renewing drug prescriptions. Experts ask if it should be regulated as a medical device.

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Mental health chatbot developer Slingshot AI wants the world to believe that its smartphone app, Ash, will do more good than harm. The evidence that the company offers, though, raises more questions than answers, @mariojoze.bsky.social writes: www.statnews.com/2025/11/24/s... via @statnews.com

Is Slingshot’s mental health chatbot safe? Its first study raises questions about evaluating AI

Slingshot AI publishes new data showing its chatbot Ash is safe, but experts say the study offers little clinical proof.

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We got burned by an AI freelancer and a few missteps of our own. Here's the full disclosure on that. All I can add from my vantage here is that my work has always been subject to rigorous fact checking. It's sometimes a days long, maddening process, but 100% of the time I am grateful in the end.

How WIRED Got Rolled by an AI Freelancer

We retracted a story in May. Here’s what happened.

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Important story. I covered this back in July, too: www.wired.com/story/usaid-...

‘People Are Going to Die’: A Malnutrition Crisis Looms in the Wake of USAID Cuts

Warehouses in the US are full of foods that fight malnutrition, while kids go hungry in places like South Sudan.

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USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.

Under Chris Klomp’s watch, crucial decisions will be made about the direction of Medicare. And, @mariojoze.bsky.social reports, given other insurers often follow Medicare's lead, Klomp is in a position to influence the broader health care system. www.statnews.com/2025/04/28/m... via @statnews.com

This health tech exec is in charge of Medicare, and he has big ambitions

A close look at Chris Klomp's path to the top of Medicare, which pays for the health care of 68 million Americans.

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He's a faith-driven, 44-year-old health tech entrepreneur from Idaho who just got put in charge of Medicare. Read about his ambitions to reform the ~$1 trillion program in this deeply-reported profile by @mariojoze.bsky.social, via @statnews.com: www.statnews.com/2025/04/28/m... via @statnews.com

This health tech exec is in charge of Medicare, and he has big ambitions

A close look at Chris Klomp's path to the top of Medicare, which pays for the health care of 68 million Americans.

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A proudly frugal tech CEO now runs Medicare, where he’ll hunt for savings on a far bigger stage https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/28/medicare-director-chris-klomp-health-tech-executive-with-ambitions/

A proudly frugal tech CEO now runs Medicare, where he'll hunt for savings on a far bigger stage

A close look at Chris Klomp's path to the top of Medicare, which pays for the health care of 68 million Americans.

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The website ‘refresh’ — that included changing references to "health equity" — reflects a commitment to building products that improve everyone’s health, according to Google, @mariojoze.bsky.social reports: www.statnews.com/2025/03/10/g... via @statnews.com

For Google, health equity becomes 'health optimization' as Trump targets DEI

Google recently revised its websites and changed a senior executive's title to downplay its commitment to health equity.

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NEW: Google scrubs 'health equity' from its website as Trump attacks DEI www.statnews.com/2025/03/10/g...

Lawmakers ask the FDA to review Hims’ Super Bowl ad for "misleading" patients, foreshadow that they plan to introduce legislation to address ads that omit safety info, via @mariojoze.bsky.social

Lawmakers ask FDA to review Hims’ Super Bowl ad for ‘misleading’ patients

Two senators wrote to the FDA Friday about the Hims Super Bowl ad, which they said misleads patients about compounded weight loss drugs.

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Transcarent acquires Accolade for $621 million to create benefits tech giant -- news from @mariojoze.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/01/08/t... via @statnews.com

Transcarent acquires Accolade for $621 million to create benefits tech giant

Transcarent CEO Glen Tullman spent much of 2024 hinting that his health benefits upstart might be shopping around for acquisitions, and just over a week

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FDA-cleared apps for everything from depression to opioid use disorder have struggled to gain adoption, and one company just abandoned its app after 4 years of development. @mariojoze.bsky.social explains the dynamics behind a struggling digital therapeutic: www.statnews.com/2024/12/03/o...

Relevant to everyone on the platform! Bluesky is the new destination for X/Twitter’s health and science community. Here’s why www.statnews.com/2024/11/21/b... via @statnews @katiepalmer.bsky.social

Bluesky is the new destination for X/Twitter’s health and science community. Here's why

#MedTwitter is migrating en masse from X to Bluesky, suddenly making it an essential hub for scientific discourse. Here's why.

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