Preventive Care

Explaining the Basics of Patient Risk Scores in Healthcare

September 8, 2023 - As medicine advances and healthcare organizations move toward value-based care, providers and health systems are prioritizing population health and preventive care. But to prevent disease and adverse outcomes for patients, health systems must first identify which populations to focus on. Doing so involves accurately flagging and assessing at-risk patients to formulate effective...


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New Research to Measure the Impact of Overdose Prevention Centers

by Shania Kennedy

New York University (NYU) Langone Health and Brown University’s School of Public Health have been awarded over $5 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the...

Columbia University Launches Center for Precision Psychiatry, Mental Health

by Shania Kennedy

This week, Columbia University established the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Center for Precision Psychiatry & Mental Health, which aims to catalyze precision medicine to support the...

Data-Sharing Collaboration Aims to Advance Cancer Prevention

by Shania Kennedy

The University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center and the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio launched a partnership with healthcare data privacy startup TripleBlind to study the impact of...

Health AI, Biomedical Discovery Projects Win Grant Funding

by Shania Kennedy

DePaul University and Rosalind Franklin University of Science and Medicine have announced funding for three interdisciplinary research projects aimed at leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to...

Patients Show Less Trust in Preventive Care Interventions Suggested By AI

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have found that individuals exhibit less trust in artificial intelligence (AI)-suggested preventive care measures than those...

Mayo Clinic, Mercy Launch Data Science Collab to Transform Patient Care

by Shania Kennedy

Mayo Clinic and Mercy announced a 10-year partnership focused on using data science and deidentified patient outcomes to determine effective disease prevention and treatment. As part of the...

CDC Awards $215M to Advance Cancer Moonshot Goals

by Shania Kennedy

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced $215 million in funding awards for 86 recipients under three national cancer programs: the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early...

Geisinger, Tempus Develop AI Model to Predict Heart Disease

by Shania Kennedy

Danville, Pennsylvania-based Geisinger health system and biotechnology research company Tempus have developed an electrocardiogram (ECG)-based artificial intelligence (AI) model that can predict...

NY Cancer Center Develops Machine-Learning Sensor to Sniff Out Cancer

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have created a tool that can sniff for and identify cancer in blood samples using machine learning. Like the human nose, the tool uses...

Michigan Medicine Uses AI to Measure Aortic Growth

by Erin McNemar, MPA

Michigan Medicine researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence method of measuring aortic growth that can assist clinicians in identifying potentially fatal heart conditions...

AI Company Launches Remote Care Service for Chronic Conditions

by Erin McNemar, MPA

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Researchers Study Artificial Intelligence Tool to Detect Esophageal Cancer

by Erin McNemar, MPA

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Industry Applauds as Biden Reboots Cancer Moonshot

by Erin McNemar, MPA

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New Collab to Give Rare Disease Project Access to Data Analysis Tech

by Erin McNemar, MPA

Komodo Health announced it will provide rare disease patient advocacy organizations in the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s (CZI) Rare as One Network with analytics to improve earlier diagnosis,...

AI Collaboration to Create Personalized Healthcare  

by Erin McNemar, MPA

Health at Scale and Walmart are joining forces to produce personalized provider recommendations for Walmart associates and their families using artificial intelligence.  Health at Scale is a...

Machine Learning Predicts C. Diff Infection

by Erin McNemar, MPA

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by Erin McNemar, MPA

To better understand why so many individuals worldwide suffer from brain diseases, Cleveland Clinic has launched a new study aiming to identify disease biomarkers early, preventing...

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by Erin McNemar, MPA

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by Erin McNemar, MPA

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