County-level data collected during the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed staggering racial and ethnic disparities in care, with the virus disproportionately impacting black and Hispanic populations....
In the largest study of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the US, researchers leveraged EHR data to find that hypertension, diabetes, and obesity are key chronic diseases in the acuity of the...
In the context of COVID-19, state-level decision-makers should conduct risk assessments to better understand how to move from strict social distancing measures to a staged reopening phase, according to...
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Human Vaccines Project have announced the Human Immunomics Initiative, a joint effort that will use artificial intelligence models to accelerate...
The UC San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine Dean’s Office of Population Health and Health Equity has launched a new interactive mapping website that curates publicly available community data,...
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt the status quo, the healthcare industry is turning to real-world data to better understand, monitor, and prepare for whatever the virus may bring.
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The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has launched a new center to better understand the pathology of coronavirus and support the development of potential vaccines,...
The Healthy Nevada Project, a community-based population health study combining genetic, clinical, and environmental data, is incorporating COVID-19 data from consented participants.
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Researchers at Stanford University have launched an interactive, data-driven model that evaluates possible outcomes of non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19, including social distancing and...
A team at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) developed an artificial intelligence tool that found immediate stringent interventions are needed to reduce the spread of...
In the time since the COVID-19 outbreak has escalated to a full-blown global pandemic, buzzwords like artificial intelligence, population health management, and the social determinants of health have...
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) have developed a portable surveillance tool that leverages machine learning and real-time data to monitor flu-like illnesses and...
Definitive Healthcare has partnered with Esri to launch an interactive data platform that allows people to analyze and monitor US hospital bed capacity, as well as potential geographic areas of risk,...
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has issued a call to action for experts to build artificial intelligence tools that can be applied to a new COVID-19 dataset.
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Individuals living in areas of greater deprivation and rurality had lower rates of recommended cancer screening, reflecting the significant impact the social determinants of health have on care access,...
Medical Home Network, an organization serving patients in the Chicago area, is using artificial intelligence to identify individuals who have a heightened vulnerability to severe complications from...
Black and Hispanic pediatric patients fared worse than non-Hispanic white patients during brain cancer treatment and follow-up, indicating that racial disparities have a significant impact on...
The Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University has developed an interactive, web-based dashboard that tracks real-time data on confirmed coronavirus cases, deaths,...
Knowledge about patients’ opioid use after cesarean section surgery and before discharge could help inform more individualized prescriptions and cut down on unnecessary, leftover pills, a study...
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are using artificial intelligence to reveal cellular distinctions between black and white patients with prostate cancer, and have received $3.2 million in...
