Health Equity

OH Health System Leverages AI to Bolster Colon Cancer Screenings, Health Equity

by Shania Kennedy

University Hospitals (UH) Cleveland Medical Center has been awarded artificial intelligence (AI)-based endoscopy tools by the Medtronic Health Equity Assistance Program, which will be used to support...

Real-World Data Collab Aims to Improve Diversity in Cancer Clinical Trials

by Shania Kennedy

The National Cancer Institute Community Oncology Research Program (NCI NCORP)-designated Louisiana State University (LSU) Health New Orleans is collaborating with artificial intelligence (AI) and...

Data Collaboration Aims to Improve Long-Term Patient Care, Health Disparities

by Shania Kennedy

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...

Microsoft, NYU, Novartis Launch AI-Driven Heart Health Equity Network

by Shania Kennedy

The Novartis Foundation, Microsoft AI for Health, and the New York University (NYU) School of Global Public Health have partnered to launch the AI4HealthyCities Health Equity Network, an initiative to...

4 Health Systems Join Provider-Created Data Collective to Improve Care

by Shania Kennedy

Provider-created data company Truveta announced that four health systems — WellSpan Health, Centura Health, MetroHealth, and Virtua Health — have joined its collective, which aims to...

UCLA Leverages Genomic Data to Support Health Equity, Precision Medicine

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers analyzing genomic data from the UCLA ATLAS Precision Health Biobank have found a highly diverse patient population within the repository, and they plan to leverage the data to support...

HHS Announces First Group from Health Tech Startup Accelerator

by Shania Kennedy

The inaugural cohort of the HHS PandemicX Accelerator have completed the public-private health collaboration program and are sharing how they are addressing federal health challenges such as health...

Mount Sinai Launches Data-Driven Medical-Legal Program to Address Patient Needs

by Shania Kennedy

Mount Sinai Health System has launched a medical-legal program aimed at improving health outcomes and equity for patients in underserved communities by proactively intervening to address health-harming...

ONC Expands Health Equity Data Initiative to Standardize Patient Addresses

by Shania Kennedy

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced that it will incorporate recommendations from the HHS Equity Technical Assistance Center (ETAC) into the next...

HHS Awards $90M to Health Centers to Boost Health Equity Via Data Modernization

by Shania Kennedy

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded approximately $90 million in American Rescue Plan funding to nearly 1,400 community health centers as part of an ongoing effort to advance...

Stanford Strikes Analytics Partnership to Evaluate COVID-19 Health Outcomes

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers from Stanford’s Center for Population Health Sciences will utilize healthcare analytics company Komodo Health’s data platform to support studies focused on health outcomes...

NJ Hospital to Implement Colonoscopy AI Tech in Underserved Communities

by Shania Kennedy

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...

Researchers Propose Framework to Ensure Equitable Healthcare Algorithms

by Shania Kennedy

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...

Limited Racial Data Curbs Diagnosis, Treatment of Genetic Conditions

by Mark Melchionna

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...

SDOH Improves Performance of Heart Failure Mortality Predictive Model

by Shania Kennedy

A new study published in JAMA Cardiology shows how machine learning (ML)–based models that incorporate social determinants of health (SDOH) data improve the prediction of in-hospital mortality...

Vanderbilt University Launches Study on LGBTQ+ Aging, Health Disparities

by Shania Kennedy

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...

Suicide Death Rates Spiked Over Decade, Especially Among People of Color

by Shania Kennedy

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...

Medicare Data Inaccuracies Hinder Health Disparity Assessment

by Shania Kennedy

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...

New Data Science Training Program to Focus on Health Equity

by Shania Kennedy

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...

AI Can Detect Race When Clinicians Cannot, Increasing Risk of Bias

by Shania Kennedy

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...