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How Data-Informed Risk Stratification Can Support Suicide Prevention

February 20, 2024 - As the mental health crisis in the United States persists, supporting patients and preventing adverse outcomes are top priorities for healthcare providers. However, the national behavioral health workforce shortage and access barriers to mental healthcare mean that many are unable to receive the care they need, a phenomenon with potentially life-threatening consequences. Listen to the...


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Using Analytics Tools to Drive Care Coordination for Wildfire Victims

by Shania Kennedy

Climate change is a public health crisis, threatening human health by increasing the frequency and intensity of natural disasters like hurricanes, tropical storms, floods, heatwaves, wildfires, and more. These events have significant...

Exploring the National Academy of Medicine’s AI Code of Conduct

by Shania Kennedy

The question of how the healthcare industry can leverage artificial intelligence (AI) ethically and responsibly has become a hot topic in recent years. Throughout 2022 and 2023, industry professionals, policymakers, and regulatory...

Healthcare Stakeholders Plan to Prioritize AI, Analytics This Year

by Shania Kennedy

As the new year begins, health systems are gearing up for new opportunities and challenges in the year ahead. For many, top priorities from last year — such as establishing analytics infrastructure, deploying predictive analytics,...

Top Health IT Analytics Predictions, Priorities for This Year

by Shania Kennedy

As health systems work to address challenges caused or worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, such as health inequity and chronic disease management hurdles, many are turning to data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI)...

How Will Biden’s Executive Order on Trustworthy AI Impact Healthcare?

by Shania Kennedy

In October, President Joe Biden signed the Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The order establishes guardrails focused on promoting safety and security, protecting...

Can Digital Twin Neighborhoods Help Tackle Health Disparities?

by Shania Kennedy

Addressing health disparities and improving patient outcomes are key to achieving health equity, but tackling these issues requires health systems to understand their population’s needs and develop strategies to meet...

How Can Medical Schools Educate Students on Artificial Intelligence?

by Shania Kennedy

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a hot topic in healthcare as stakeholders work to assess how these tools can be used to drive improvements in areas like clinician burnout, population health, and precision medicine. As health systems begin...

Exploring a Framework for Pediatric Data Use in Health AI Research

by Shania Kennedy

The number of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)-enabled medical devices authorized by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has risen in recent years as healthcare organizations have become increasingly...

Exploring the Role of Cleveland Clinic’s First Chief Analytics Officer

by Shania Kennedy

As data analytics becomes more valuable and accessible, health systems are creating leadership roles to reflect this shift. Chief data officer and chief analytics officer roles are becoming more common, but what does such a role...

Will Clinicians Become Dependent on Artificial Intelligence Tools?

by Shania Kennedy

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have garnered much attention in the healthcare industry in recent years, but the hype raises significant questions and concerns. How should these technologies be developed? For what use cases?...

The Clinical Promise and Ethical Pitfalls of Electronic Phenotyping

by Shania Kennedy

As information technology (IT) methods for disease surveillance, predictive analytics, and clinical decision support become more advanced, big data mining will be crucial to ensure tools use large, high-quality datasets. Data mining can...

How Can Predictive Analytics Help ACOs Boost Value-Based Care Delivery?

by Shania Kennedy

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) play a critical role in shifting the healthcare system toward value-based care, but population health management and care coordination initiatives require ACOs to invest in new technologies to achieve...

Exploring Mayo Clinic’s AI Efforts to Enhance Organ Transplants

by Shania Kennedy

Organ transplants represent one of many revolutionary advancements within the field of medicine over the past century. Since the first successful human kidney transplant in 1954, the number of treatment options for once life-threatening or...

Investigating Use Cases for AI, IT Tools in Emergency Medical Services

by Shania Kennedy

Emergency medical services (EMS) and first response teams play an instrumental role in providing timely, life-saving healthcare. To help make emergency care more efficient and improve patient outcomes, many EMS organizations are evaluating...

Exploring the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Anesthesiology

by Shania Kennedy

In anesthesiology, as in all medical specialties, clinicians strive to support patient safety and improve outcomes. Some anesthesiology professionals are investigating how advanced technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine...

Using AI to Support Healthcare Amid a Mental Health Provider Shortage

by Shania Kennedy

Healthcare provider shortages are nothing new, but recent shifts in care-seeking behaviors and rising demand for health services illustrate some of the unique challenges healthcare organizations face in addressing these shortages. A 2022...

How Elevance Health, MVP Health Care Are Leveraging Data Analytics

by Shania Kennedy

Payers rely on accurate, high-quality data to make health insurance processes more efficient and support improved patient outcomes. However, each beneficiary generates a plethora of data points throughout their care journeys that payers...

How NorthShore Uses AI, NLP to Tackle SDOH in the Emergency Department

by Shania Kennedy

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...

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Support Medication Adherence

by Shania Kennedy

Medication adherence remains a persistent, complex challenge for the healthcare industry as drug costs rise and prescription adherence rates sink. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that adherence to prescribed...