When describing the state of healthcare in the last few months, people have used certain words over and over again.
Unprecedented, crisis, rapid, and novel have become staple terms in the nation’s vocabulary, highlighting both...
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, the Bloomberg American Health Initiative, and IBM Watson Health are partnering to develop a health equity measure that will incentivize healthcare...
As the industry continues its quest to provide holistic, comprehensive, and cost-effective care to patients, the term population health management has emerged as a crucial task for organizations to...
The University of Southern California (USC) Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics has launched a population health project that will use digital health technologies to reduce health...
Community-based genetic screening could enhance population health by identifying individuals at high risk for three inherited conditions known to cause cancer and increased risk for heart attack and...
A predictive analytics model showed that without masks, six feet of social distance may not be enough to keep one person’s respiratory droplets from reaching someone else, which could contribute...
The first collection of important data from the world’s largest study of cardiovascular disease prevention in people with HIV has revealed the significant chronic disease burden of this patient...
Although COVID-19 has spread to communities around the world, as the pandemic wears on it’s clear that the virus has impacted some populations more than others.
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Crowdsourced data from mobile apps like Yelp could help leaders identify food deserts and guide health policy, according to a study published in Frontiers in Public Health.
The classification of food...
Despite the promise of artificial intelligence in medical imaging, the FDA currently cannot ensure the safety and efficacy of automated AI in the imaging field, according to comments from the American...
Fifty-six percent of healthcare leaders say their current population health management solution doesn’t meet their needs, according to a survey from Persivia and commissioned by Sage Growth...
The interaction of COVID-19 and existing chronic diseases – including diabetes, obesity, and hypertension – are associated with poorer outcomes from the virus, indicating that health...
A big data model projected that without any changes in alcohol consumption or interventions to address high-risk drinking, deaths from alcohol-related liver disease will rise significantly in the US,...
Across the healthcare landscape, it is widely understood but rarely confessed that not all care is delivered equally.
In an ideal world – or just a fairer one – the medical industry would be able to seamlessly address an...
Artificial intelligence has the potential to help address global health challenges, but stakeholders must promote rapid and equitable data access and establish ethical standards in order to use the...
The University of California, Irvine, and the Orange County Health Care Agency are partnering to conduct a large-scale population health study that will help researchers determine the true prevalence...
The social determinants of health have become a household term in the healthcare industry’s vernacular, with leaders and organizations aiming to address these influences to provide more...
With the healthcare industry steadily moving toward more holistic, preventive care delivery, health systems have increasingly recognized the critical role the social determinants of health play in the...
COVID-19 data gathered during the pandemic has shed light on significant healthcare disparities, revealing poorer outcomes in minority and underserved communities.
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County-level data collected during the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed staggering racial and ethnic disparities in care, with the virus disproportionately impacting black and Hispanic populations....