Health Equity

Cleveland Clinic to Leverage Digital Twins for Health Disparity Research

by Shania Kennedy

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded researchers from Cleveland Clinic and MetroHealth a $3.14 million grant to use digital twins to better understand and address health...

Survey Finds Most Healthcare Orgs Struggle to Collect, Use SDOH Data

by Shania Kennedy

A white paper published last week by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) shows that a majority of surveyed healthcare organizations are collecting social determinants of...

Precision Oncology Data Registry May Perpetuate Health Disparities

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) revealed in a study published in npj Precision Oncology that the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Project Genomics Evidence Neoplasia...

NJDOH Awarded CDC Grant to Modernize Data Analytics Infrastructure

by Shania Kennedy

The New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) has been awarded a five-year, $80.5 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which it will use to modernize its data...

New Tool Provides Population Health Insights in US Congressional Districts

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) unveiled the Congressional District Health Dashboard (CDHD), an online data tool...

More Legal Clarification Needed For Clinical Algorithm Development, Use

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers explored the intersection of clinical algorithms, anti-discrimination laws, and medical device regulation in a JAMA viewpoint published this month, arguing that recent directives from the...

More Guidance Needed to Curb Discrimination by Clinical Algorithm Use

by Shania Kennedy

In a recent viewpoint published in JAMA, researchers explored the challenges of curbing discrimination by a clinical algorithm, arguing that the US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS)...

Partnership to Expand Health Equity Data to Improve Community Health

by Mark Melchionna

A collaboration between the University of Notre Dame Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society and Accenture aims to address community health challenges by expanding health equity data and applying...

Coalition for Health AI Unveils Draft Blueprint for Ethical AI Implementation

by Shania Kennedy

The Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) has published a draft of its ‘Blueprint for Trustworthy AI Implementation Guidance and Assurance for Healthcare,’ which outlines recommendations for...

Researchers Develop AI Clinical Decision Support Tool for Nutrition

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin’s Dell Medical School have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) clinical decision support tool designed to help clinicians discuss...

UC Davis Launches Digital Transformation Collaboration

by Shania Kennedy

University of California (UC) Davis Health and venture capital firm General Catalyst announced a collaboration to support the health system’s digital transformation and drive innovations using...

Google, Health Systems Develop ‘Accelerators’ to Improve Patient Care

by Shania Kennedy

At HLTH 2022, Google Cloud announced three new Healthcare Data Engine (HDE) accelerators, created in collaboration with Hackensack Meridian Health, Lifepoint Health, and other organizations, to help...

UC Davis to Develop AI for Breast Cancer Detection, Risk Prediction

by Shania Kennedy

University of California Davis researchers have received a $15 million, five-year grant renewal from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to fund artificial intelligence (AI) projects aimed at improving...

Federated Learning Framework Aims to Improve Fairness in AI Screening Tools

by Shania Kennedy

A research team from the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) Swanson School of Engineering has been awarded a $1.7 million National Institutes of Health grant to develop a federated learning (FL)-based...

NYC Health Dept. Leverages Health Equity Framework to Combat Disparities

by Shania Kennedy

The New York City Health Department is partnering with The Healing Acknowledgment, Redress, and Closure (ARC), a campaign of healthcare professionals and other stakeholders seeking the elimination of...

NIH Award to Support Informatics-Driven Population Health Research

by Shania Kennedy

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has received a $55.5 million Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Advancing...

Researchers Outline AI-Related Clinical Competencies for Health Professionals

by Shania Kennedy

A research report published in Academic Medicine outlines artificial intelligence (AI)-related clinical competencies for healthcare professionals in an effort to address practical and ethical concerns...

University Gets Funding For AI-Driven Projects to Mitigate Health Disparities

by Shania Kennedy

The University of Miami announced that it has received grants for multiple projects aimed at addressing health disparities through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) as...

Coalition Shares Progress, Plans to Issue Responsible Health AI Guidelines

by Shania Kennedy

The Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) has published papers related to the second round of workshops in its Bias, Equity, and Fairness series for public feedback and announced plans to share...

NIH Grant to Fund AI-Driven Chronic Disease Disparity Project

by Shania Kennedy

Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) Schmidt College of Medicine, the Caridad Center, Inc., and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have received a $500,000 grant from the National...