Boston Scientific and provider-created data collective Truveta have announced a strategic collaboration aimed at improving long-term patient care and gaining insights into health disparities through...
New Jersey-based Hackensack University Medical Center has received funding from the Health Equity Assistance Program to support the installation of artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted colonoscopy...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A new report published by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has found that race and ethnicity data gathered as part of Medicare enrollment are...
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...
Researchers have found that artificial intelligence (AI) models can accurately detect self-reported racial identity using medical images, but the mechanisms they use to do so are unclear to...
Although artificial intelligence (AI) continues to become a critical aspect of healthcare, researchers from PLOS digital health biases and data gaps involved in AI production can lead to healthcare...
Mayo Clinic researchers examined the Cancer Genome Atlas and found that Black patients received lower-quality genomic sequencing, leading to less complete data and a weak DNA database, according to a...
A combined data analysis of results from 149 studies indicated that treatment rates for major depressive disorder remain low worldwide, particularly for those living in low-and lower-middle-income...
As health insurers and providers increasingly turn to machine-learning algorithms to enhance care, there is a growing concern among experts regarding equity, fairness, and bias in how the technology is...
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,...
According to MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital researchers, artificial intelligence could improve the accessibility of mental healthcare.
The investigation was led by MIT Professor of Media Arts...
Data analytics from the University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHealth Houston) indicate a decline in cervical cancer screenings. According to researchers, screening rates are the lowest...
In 2021, Nemours Children’s Health, a pediatric health system in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Florida, took steps to improve its data analytics and value-based...
To improve population health, Cornell University researchers have developed a highly portable and rapid prostate cancer screening kit. The kit is intended to indicate early warning signs to...
According to a data analysis of medical records for a racially diverse group of over 6,000 women, there is evidence that a combination of biological, social, and cultural factors are responsible for...
