Researchers have found a significant association among social determinants of health (SDOH), prehospital pediatric encounters, and EMS transport decisions.
Screening children for SDOH has become more...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Rutgers Center for State Health Policy has launched the New Jersey Integrated Population Health Data (iPHD) Project to help address some of the state’s major population health issues, such as the...
The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) All of Us Research Program has announced that health data from 20,000 people who have had SARS-CoV-2 is now available to researchers in the US, expanding...
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...
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...
While reviewing data from the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from the Washington Poison Center (WAPC) found that there was a substantial increase in reports of self-harm and suicide among...
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...
A deep-learning model can accurately predict pediatric no-shows using data from patient EHRs and local weather information, which can then be used to implement no-show prevention measures, according to...
Loneliness and social isolation rose alarmingly during the COVID-19 pandemic as lockdowns proliferated and in-person gatherings were discouraged.
A critical social determinant of health (SDOH), social isolation is estimated to have...
Truveta and LexisNexis Risk Solutions announced a strategic partnership that will use de-identified data to improve the quality of all health research and enable new insights on health...
