The World Health Organization (WHO) launched its Health Inequality Data Repository (HIDR) last week, the largest global collection of data on population health and inequalities to date, to help track...
The University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine has launched its Center for Health Equity and Precision Public Health, which aims to improve health outcomes for rural, economically challenged, and...
In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers found that nine social determinants of health (SDOH) extracted from structured and unstructured EHR data using natural language processing...
Researchers from Stony Brook University have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that uses social media posts to forecast opioid death rates more accurately than methods relying on...
Researchers from Utica University recently leveraged socioeconomic data to gain insights into generational poverty and other health equity barriers that impact patients’ ability to prioritize...
In a recent article published by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC), Sarah Wheeler, PhD, an associate professor of pathology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine,...
The New Jersey Integrated Population Health Data (iPHD) project approved pilot funding and the release of data for multiple research proposals addressing the project’s four top health priorities:...
Research recently published in The American Journal of Managed Care describes the design and evaluation of a dashboard that presents health equity performance data to Medicare Advantage (MA)...
Pennsylvania-based Highmark Health will deploy an artificial intelligence (AI)-based early warning system from insights solutions company Kinsa to help predict healthcare utilization, staffing needs,...
Phoenix, Arizona-based Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center launched a new initiative this week to address the use of race-based algorithms in the early diagnosis of chronic...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded researchers from Cleveland Clinic and MetroHealth a $3.14 million grant to use digital twins to better understand and address health...
A white paper published last week by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) shows that a majority of surveyed healthcare organizations are collecting social determinants of...
In a study published this week in Science Translational Medicine, researchers from the Stanford School of Medicine revealed that a machine-learning (ML) algorithm could predict prematurity...
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the University of California, San Francisco have identified eight social characteristics that can help to predict an older adult’s risk of...
The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst) will leverage Curation Health’s risk adjustment platform to improve population health and reduce...
Researchers from New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) unveiled the Congressional District Health Dashboard (CDHD), an online data tool...
Nashville, Tennessee-based Evergreen Nephrology and Innovaccer Inc. announced a partnership to leverage the company’s Health Cloud platform to optimize care management and delivery at the...
Intermountain Healthcare and health technology company Story Health announced a partnership to extend access to high-quality heart and vascular care for patients with heart failure using the...
Researchers from Mass General Brigham and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a deep-learning (DL) tool that can predict the risk of lung cancer for individuals with or...
Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley have developed machine-learning (ML) software that uses entries in EHRs to shed light on long COVID, including finding common symptoms and...
