Mario covers technology in health care, including FDA regulation of artificial intelligence; how Medicare pays for health tech; the use of AI in clinical care; mental health chatbots; and consumer wearables. He’s also the co-author of the free, twice weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter . Federal health officials held closed-door conversations with prominent technology companies last month as the health department and its subagencies aim to safely boost adoption of clinical artificial intelligence. AdvertisementSTAT spoke with four companies that attended, Counsel Health, K Health, Hippocratic AI, and Ellipsis Health, whose leaders summarized their comments to regulators. The meeting was meant to offer federal health officials firsthand experience with AI doctor technology as it exists today.