Black, Hispanic, American Indian, and Alaskan Native patients are more likely to be hospitalized due to COVID-19 than white individuals, showing that there are significant disparities among racial and...
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...
Cleveland Clinic researchers have built a predictive analytics model to better understand which patients with COVID-19 are at high risk of hospitalization from the virus.
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An analysis of COVID-19 data showed that infection rates are higher among minority and socioeconomically disadvantaged children, indicating that racial and ethnic disparities persist even in pediatric...
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...
An analysis of county-level data revealed progress in reducing premature cardiac deaths in began to decline in 2011, with significant disparities among counties, according to research published in the...
Quality data on race, ethnicity, and gender is needed to reduce disparities in confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths, according to a report from researchers at the Medical College of Georgia.
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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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Significant inaccuracies exist in Medicare beneficiaries’ race and ethnicity data, which could exacerbate disparities in healthcare access and quality, according to a study published in Medical...
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...
NIH has announced that it will provide $75 million in funding over five years for the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Genomic Risk Assessment and Management Network, which aims to...
Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI) has developed a big data analytics dashboard to accurately identify communities at high risk for COVID-19 infection.
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After evaluating social determinants data and brain bank samples, researchers have found that people who live in the most disadvantaged US neighborhoods may have a higher risk of developing...
In the healthcare industry today, it is widely understood that optimal health outcomes require addressing patients’ clinical and non-clinical needs – their social determinants of...
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...
COVID-19 death rates in the US are correlated with patients’ age, race, socioeconomic status, and other social determinants of health data, according to a study led by researchers at the MIT...
Black men who have received heart transplants may be at increased risk for worse outcomes with COVID-19, indicating gender and racial disparities that warrant further research, according to a study...
The National Quality Minority Forum (NMQF) and Centene Corporation have launched a research partnership to evaluate the health disparities caused by COVID-19 in minority and underserved...
In the time since the COVID-19 pandemic has hit and spread across the US, the virus has further exposed glaring health disparities and lack of quality care access experienced by particular...
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...
