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Katie Palmer

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Health tech correspondent at STAT News (www.statnews.com) Share tips: katie.palmer@statnews.com Signal: palmer.01

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Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I'm a health journalist for @statnews.com interested in speaking with people who have used telehealth companies for weight loss. If you have an experience you'd be open to sharing, please reach out! katie.palmer@statnews.com or Signal at palmer.01
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Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
For 3 years, I've reported on 2 big telehealth trends: pharma partnerships and compounding. They've gone head-to-head as patients demand GLP-1s. But they've been part of the same story for much longer. Here's how telehealth got hooked on drug-first thinking: www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/t...
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From erectile dysfunction to weight loss, how telehealth got hooked on drug-first thinking
Marketing of on-demand telehealth prescriptions has rapidly become a constant presence for American consumers
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Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
It's been 6 months since the FDA updated its public list of authorized AI-enabled devices. So @statnews.com went ahead and checked how things are going. At least 167 more AI-enabled devices have gotten cleared or approved since the last one added to FDA's list: www.statnews.com/2025/06/20/f...
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As AI device market grows, FDA's accounting goes silent
As the market for AI enabled medical devices grows, experts say there is less transparency around device approvals.
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Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Are you a physician or health care provider using AI tools like OpenEvidence? I want to hear about your experience! I'm a health tech journalist @statnews.com reporting on clinical AI, and you can find me on Signal at palmer.01 (email in bio)
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Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
May 1 is the deadline for health systems to make sure that AI and other tools informing patient care don't discriminate. But the Trump admin scrubbed information about the civil rights rule months ago. What does that mean for compliance? My latest for @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/h...
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Health systems in limbo as HHS stays quiet on nondiscrimination rules for AI, algorithms
Lack of clarity from officials delay providers' efforts to ensure clinical decision support tools don't discriminate.
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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Work on insuring clinical algorithms are free of bias has been underway for years. Now a May 1 deadline to show tools are bias-free is in limbo as all information about the new rules have been removed from HHS websites. More from @katiepalmer.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/h...
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Health systems in limbo as HHS stays quiet on nondiscrimination rules for AI, algorithms
Lack of clarity from officials delay providers' efforts to ensure clinical decision support tools don't discriminate.
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Elaine Chen @elaineywchen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The explosion of compounded GLP-1 offerings is ending, and many patients are left with no good options. Telehealth companies and compounders are pursuing workarounds that may be riskier. At the same time, patients still can't afford the branded drugs. w/ @katiepalmer.bsky.social
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The end of compounded GLP-1 copies leaves many patients in a ‘lose-lose’ position
With GLP-1 shortage officially over, patients who relied on compounded copies have only bad options to choose from
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Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
In 2026, HHS was set to require fields for sexual orientation and gender identity in EHRs, supporting research and better care for LGBTQ+ patients. Now, HHS won't enforce those requirements. Read in @statnews.com about impacts on providers and EHR vendors: www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/h...
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HHS will not enforce gender and sexual orientation requirements for medical records
HHS will not enforce standards that medical records be able to capture patients’ sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Reporters @statnews.com are following the HHS restructuring closely — on the health tech team, we especially want to hear from those impacted by the IT consolidation and those impacted at OCR. Reach out here: www.statnews.com/2025/03/27/h...
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Are you affected by the HHS cuts and restructuring?
HHS is set to cut 10,000 jobs and consolidate divisions — have you been affected? @statnews would like to hear from you.
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Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Facing a shrinking market for compounded GLP-1 weight loss drugs, dozens of telehealth companies are marketing hormone therapies for men and women — many of them compounded options that use the same backbone built to capitalize on intense GLP-1 demand www.statnews.com/2025/03/11/t...
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As GLP-1 compounding stares down a wall, telehealth companies pivot to hormones
As it gets harder to offer compounded GLP-1s, many telehealth companies are pivoting to hormone replacement therapy.
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 26/02/2025
In today's edition of AI Prognosis we: -Address the question of whether health care's adoption of AI scribes is entirely vibes-based -Have an exclusive Q&A with co-founder of an AI deep research tool made specifically for scientists who just raised a $22M Series A -Recommend a 🔥 Song of the Week
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Are we adopting AI scribes based on... vibes?
The web edition of STAT’s AI Prognosis newsletter, our subscriber-exclusive guide to AI in health care and medicine.
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Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I'm looking to talk with VA employees who may be directed to alter gender-related fields in medical records. Signal: palmer.01. Please boost! #journorequest #veterans
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Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
On Saturday, Trump's layoffs hit the FDA. If you've been affected by the firings in federal health agencies, you can contact STAT using the form in this story. www.statnews.com/2025/02/15/t...
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Trump administration lays off FDA employees
The cuts are part of a purge of 5,200 probationary workers across federal health agencies that started Friday.
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Two weeks of work went into this and I’m not done yet. Coming soon: - explore diffs of all datasets that have been republished with changes - search and access all archived data www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
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STAT is backing up and monitoring CDC data in real time: See what's changing
STAT is backing up and monitoring CDC data in real time: See what's changing.
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Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
A potent story from @jonathanwosen.bsky.social and @angusrohan.bsky.social showing that threats to federal science funding are already having an impact on career choices for talented scientists, threatening the US's leadership position in biomedical research. www.statnews.com/2025/02/12/t...
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Trump policies spark fears of brain drain, threatening to undermine U.S. dominance in biomedicine
A torrent of Trump administration policies is alarming scientists who fear the current climate is weakening researchers’ resolve to stick with careers in academic science.
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Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
As a health tech reporter at STAT News, I cover the role of technology in health care and clinical research — including artificial intelligence, telehealth, EHRs, and remote patient monitoring. Is there an untold story about how tech is impacting patients? Contact me securely on Signal: palmer.01
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Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
There's a hard deadline coming up in May for health care providers to vet clinical decision support tools for discrimination — but “most health systems just aren’t looking," one source told me. Via @statnews.com: www.statnews.com/2025/01/14/c...
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As deadline looms, health systems rush to ensure clinical algorithms don’t discriminate
A deadline is fast approaching for federally funded health systems to show that clinical algorithms don't discriminate based on protected traits such as sex or race.
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Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
FDA's AI device count has now ticked over 1,000. But it has also quietly received over 500 drug submissions with AI, and today it put out an anticipated draft guidance on AI in drug development. What does high-risk AI in drugs mean to FDA? Read in @statnews.com: www.statnews.com/2025/01/06/a...
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FDA's new guidance on AI in drug development centers the risk introduced by the technology
After nearly a decade of machine learning innovations, the FDA has issued its first draft guidance on the use of AI in drug development.
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Lizzy Lawrence @lizzylawrence.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
NEW: Some consider him a fearless truth-teller with a deep respect for science. Others consider him a contrarian for contrarian’s sake, opining on matters for political clout. Which Marty Makary would run the FDA? www.statnews.com/2024/12/17/m...
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Truth-teller or reflexive contrarian: Which Marty Makary would run the FDA?
Pancreatic surgeon Marty Makary is a long-time critic of the medical establishment who's now set to regulate food, drugs, and medical devices at the FDA.
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Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
A surprising finding in this analysis of FDA-authorized AI/ML devices: 22 devices indicated for use in kids were validated in adult datasets only. That's part of a much broader problem in how representative (or not) AI devices' training and validation data are: www.statnews.com/2024/12/16/f...
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FDA authorizes many AI devices for use in kids. Are they validated in a pediatric population?
A new study resurfaces long-simmering concerns about the lack of transparency in data used to train and validate AI and ML-enabled devices.
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Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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...
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Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
This is astonishing especially because self-reported large health data breaches hit an all-time high last year, impacting more than 165 million individuals — half the U.S. population. Imagine how much higher the number would be if OCR did regular audits.
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Health data breaches hit an all-time high in 2023
At least 116 million individuals were impacted by large and numerous health data breaches reported to federal regulators this year.
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Lizzy Lawrence @lizzylawrence.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
NEW: UnitedHealth Group is paying many of its own physician practices significantly more than it pays other doctor groups in the same markets for similar services, undermining competition and driving up costs for consumers and businesses. www.statnews.com/2024/11/25/u...
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UnitedHealth pays its own physician groups considerably more than others, driving up consumer costs and its profits
First-of-its-kind data analysis finds UnitedHealth Group pays many of its own physician practices significantly more than the average it pays other doctors in the same markets
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Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Marty Makary tapped for FDA commissioner www.statnews.com/2024/11/22/t...
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Trump picks Johns Hopkins surgeon Makary to run FDA
Makary is a close ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and a proponent of his “Make America Healthy Again” movement to fight chronic diseases.
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Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Thanks to so many science & health experts for describing why they're here on Bluesky, and what the moves could mean for science communication and public health messaging: www.statnews.com/2024/11/21/b...
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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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STAT @statnews.com · 19/11/2024
#Breakingnews: Trump picks Dr. Oz to lead Medicare and Medicaid www.statnews.com/2024/11/19/d...
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Trump picks Dr. Oz to lead Medicare and Medicaid
WASHINGTON — President-elect Trump has selected the surgeon and television personality Mehmet Oz as the administrator of the Center for Medicare and
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Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Will the FDA's advisory committee meeting on generative AI in medical devices this week surface productive solutions for regulation, or will it be "a lot of hand-waving and overpromising"? We'll be watching: www.statnews.com/2024/11/19/f...
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In first meeting of FDA’s digital health advisory committee, generative AI is up for debate
The FDA's digital health advisory committee is expected to weigh in on how generative AI should be regulated by the agency.
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Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Late Friday news drop: Telehealth prescribing flexibilities for controlled substances extended for another year by DEA and HHS — leaving long-awaited permanent rule making to the next administration www.statnews.com/2024/11/15/t...
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Stalemate breaks on telehealth prescriptions of stimulants and addiction treatment
The DEA grants a one-year extension on telehealth prescription of addiction medications, kicking resolution on a fraught issue to the second Trump administration.
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Jason Ukman @jasonukman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
A reminder that, just this week, moderate Republican senators were scrambling for cover when @rachelcohrs.bsky.social @owermohle.bsky.social and John Wilkerson tried to ask for their thoughts on confirming RFK Jr. www.statnews.com/2024/11/13/g...
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Moderate GOP senators: Don’t ask me about confirming RFK Jr.
Trump has promised to give RFK Jr. broad rein on food and medicine regulation.
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Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Clinicians have long discouraged using Google Translate to get important messages across to patients with limited English. Now some health systems, including Children's Hospital Los Angeles, are turning to LLMs to translate key documents. For @statnews.bsky.social: www.statnews.com/2024/11/11/c...
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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles tests generative AI to translate discharge notes into Spanish
Children's Hospital Los Angeles is testing generative AI to translate discharge notes for Spanish-speaking patients in seconds
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Katie Palmer @katiepalmer.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
Digital health companies are sending very different messages about GLP-1s to patients and enterprises. A look at the pivot many consumer-focused cos are making as payers confront the costs of the drugs: www.statnews.com/2023/08/21/w...
Facebook ad from Noom that reads "YES, Noom Med has finally arrived!" and "Ozempic? Mounjaro? Saxenda? Medical weight loss is finally available to the public."LinkedIn post from Noom head of sales that reads "Brokers and Consultants.....register now for our webinar on June 27th @ 12 ET. Linda Anegawa, MD, FACP and I will introduce you to Noom Med, a full-spectrum metabolic program for employers.

You’ll learn how Noom's innovative program helps your clients navigate unnecessary spend on weight loss medications (including GLP-1s) and is designed to help employees off-ramp medications."
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 20/07/2023
like,,,I still don't want to be a medical doctor...but the residents made the puzzle of diagnosis look so fun?? @katiepalmer.bsky.social and me on how one hospital is teaching their residents to diagnose both diseases AND problems with GPT-4
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Preparation over panic: How a Boston hospital is priming medical residents for an era of AI medicine
“It's going to be utterly, utterly transformative, and medical education is not ready,” said Adam Rodman of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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