It's our monthly Digital Health Download, and September's stories all circle the same tension: technology keeps promising to fix healthcare's problems, but just as often it moves them somewhere else, or creates new ones entirely. This week, Halle unpacks a news-heavy month, weighing who actually benefits as markets, algorithms, and AI get closer to our health decisions.
We cover:
Americans can now bet on clinical trials and FDA regulatory reviews - but do we want that?
Meta's massive settlement over harming children
The surprising reason AI might be making healthcare more expensive instead of less
A new study on the biggest lever we're not pulling to bend the healthcare cost curve
Two lawsuits rattling a popular wearable and a celebrity-backed mental health startup
What a widely used drug class reveals about bias in hiring, and the uncomfortable questions that raises
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