To increase diagnostic accuracy and advance the customizability of treatment for various conditions, Children’s Hospital Colorado (Children’s Colorado) launched the Precision Medicine...
Researchers at the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) have revealed that mobile phone data increasingly used in public health efforts may underrepresent vulnerable populations and magnify...
Researchers from the University of Chicago and Rush University Medical Center have developed a predictive model designed to identify women vulnerable to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) using EMRs...
In collaboration with various health and research organizations, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) established an Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct (AICC) to support the effective and...
Researchers have shown that omitting race and ethnicity as predictors in colorectal cancer recurrence risk prediction models may be associated with racial and ethnic biases that contribute to health...
Stanford Medicine and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) launched the Responsible AI for Safe and Equitable Health (RAISE-Health) initiative this week, which aims...
Identifying and tackling social determinants of health (SDOH) are crucial aspects of any health equity strategy. But establishing how best to capture patients’ SDOH needs and develop interventions in the clinical setting remains a...
Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms used to screen for and predict type 2 diabetes may be racially biased, which could perpetuate health disparities, according to a study published last week in...
New Jersey-based accountable care organization Shore Quality Partners will incorporate Spatially Health’s cloud-based health equity platform to flag and tackle social determinants of health...
In 2021, preterm births, which occur when an infant is born before 37 weeks gestational age, affected roughly one out of every 10 infants born in the US. The rate of preterm births rose 4 percent in a single year from 10.1 percent in 2020...
Researchers demonstrated that artificial intelligence (AI) can assist with the triage of patients with palpable breast masses and accurately identify cancer using images from low-cost, portable...
Researchers have found that missing data on socioeconomic, demographic, and clinical factors may negatively impact health equity for pediatric patients with childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus...
Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) found that most crowd-sourced datasets used in medical imaging data science competitions to develop artificial intelligence (AI)...
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...
Researchers at Indiana University (IU) School of Medicine received a 5-year, $41 million grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to fund a study investigating the pathology of...
The Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) released its ‘Blueprint for Trustworthy AI Implementation Guidance and Assurance for Healthcare’ this week, which outlines recommendations to increase...
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...
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)...
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...
