In new commentary published in Health Affairs, researchers from the Rand Corporation posit that having knowledge of race and ethnicity, and including that data in healthcare algorithms, is necessary to...
Hawaii Health Network (HHN) and COPE Health Solutions (CHS) have announced a population health analytics partnership focused on providing value-based payment insights to enhance performance under a new...
Ohio-based Akron Children’s Hospital has launched a strategic, multi-year partnership with data and analytics technology company Health Catalyst to advance population health and improve patient...
A team of researchers has developed a prediction model capable of forecasting post-operative outpatient opioid use following gynecological surgery, which is currently being implemented in the clinical...
The Indiana Training Program in Public and Population Health Informatics, a collaboration between Indiana University (IU) and the Regenstrief Institute, has been awarded a five-year continuation of...
The University of Colorado (CU) School of Medicine has announced the launch of its new Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI), which will focus on addressing health disparities and improving...
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Medicine Hereditary Hemorrhagic (HHT) Center concluded that limited racial and ethnic data likely contributes to inaccurate diagnoses and treatment of rare genetic...
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has awarded nearly $8 million to expand the INSIGHT Clinical Research Network, a Weill Cornell-led database containing EHR and clinical trial...
A new study published in JAMA Cardiology shows how machine learning (ML)–based models that incorporate social determinants of health (SDOH) data improve the prediction of in-hospital mortality...
Houston, Texas-based Memorial Hermann Health System has announced a partnership with population genomics and viral surveillance company, Helix to launch an initiative focused on enhancing population...
A team of researchers from Vanderbilt University has announced the first-ever longitudinal study of LGBTQ+ aging to better understand stress, resilience, and health disparities in this infrequently...
Rutgers Center for State Health Policy has launched the New Jersey Integrated Population Health Data (iPHD) Project to help address some of the state’s major population health issues, such as the...
The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) All of Us Research Program has announced that health data from 20,000 people who have had SARS-CoV-2 is now available to researchers in the US, expanding...
As the US government prepares to launch the new federally mandated crisis number 988 next month, a new Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) analysis reveals that the national suicide death rate increased 12...
Researchers found that over the past 20 years, the overall average life expectancy in the US increased, but life expectancy for the Black population remained lower than that of the White...
Researchers argue that current issues around opioid overdose data prevent public health officials from getting a clear picture of the opioid crisis, leading them to fight the epidemic...
American youth have been battling high anxiety and grief amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report.
The Crisis Text Line, a nonprofit organization that provides free, 24/7 text-based...
Researchers have developed and validated a machine-learning (ML) model that can accurately predict opioid overdose risk in Medicaid beneficiaries in Pennsylvania and Arizona, indicating that the model...
The National Library of Medicine has awarded the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and Clemson University $1.2 million to establish a new data science training program that will teach...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have announced that PostEra, a biotechnology company specializing in machine learning for preclinical drug discovery, has been awarded $68 million as part of the...