Population Health News

Medicare Beneficiaries at High Risk in COVID-19-Prevalent Counties

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In the top 25 US counties with the highest prevalence of COVID-19, the majority of adults over age 65 are at high risk for severe illness if they contract the virus, according to an analysis from...

UCSF Creates Interactive Website for Population Health, COVID-19

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The UC San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine Dean’s Office of Population Health and Health Equity has launched a new interactive mapping website that curates publicly available community data,...

Genetic Variant Drives Development of Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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A genetic variant responsible for driving the development of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is associated with a genetic pathway that is involved in other immune disorders, indicating that this...

3 Ways the Industry Is Leveraging Real-World Data to Combat COVID-19

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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt the status quo, the healthcare industry is turning to real-world data to better understand, monitor, and prepare for whatever the virus may bring. For...

HCA, Google Cloud Launch COVID-19 Data Sharing Platform

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HCA Healthcare and Google Cloud have established a new open data platform designed to promote data sharing during the COVID-19 pandemic. For more coronavirus updates, visit our resource page,...

Genetic System Could Expedite Coronavirus Vaccine, Diagnosis

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A team from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) has developed a reverse genetic system for coronavirus that could help researchers evaluate and discover potential vaccines,...

Predictive Model Offers COVID-19 Guidelines for Healthcare Workers

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Researchers from Stanford University’s department of surgery have developed a predictive model that provides best practice guidelines for operating room team members during the COVID-19 pandemic...

Tool Helps Hospitals Plan for Critical Care Surges During COVID-19

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To help hospitals and health systems plan for a surge in critically ill patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from Rand Corporation have developed an interactive tool that allows...

Penn Medicine Launches Center to Accelerate Coronavirus Research

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The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has launched a new center to better understand the pathology of coronavirus and support the development of potential vaccines,...

Participants in Nevada Population Health Study Offer COVID-19 Data

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The Healthy Nevada Project, a community-based population health study combining genetic, clinical, and environmental data, is incorporating COVID-19 data from consented participants. For more...

Stanford Launches Data-Driven Model Evaluating COVID-19 Interventions

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Researchers at Stanford University have launched an interactive, data-driven model that evaluates possible outcomes of non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19, including social distancing and...

Artificial Intelligence Predicts Severe Disease in COVID-19 Patients

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Using artificial intelligence, NYU researchers accurately predicted which patients newly diagnosed with COVID-19 would go on to develop severe respiratory disease, according to a study published in...

Predictive Analytics, Risk Factors May Help Identify Crohn’s Disease

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Mount Sinai researchers have developed new predictive analytics tools and identified environmental risk factors that could lead to a new understanding of what triggers Crohn’s disease. In a...

Artificial Intelligence Research Collaborative Targets COVID-19

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A new research consortium jointly managed by UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is aiming to build artificial intelligence techniques that will help combat...

AI Model Shows Stricter Interventions Needed to Manage COVID-19 in TX

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A team at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) developed an artificial intelligence tool that found immediate stringent interventions are needed to reduce the spread of...

Private Sector Coalition to Combat COVID-19 with Real-Time Data

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Private sector organizations have partnered to form the COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition, a collaborative effort that aims to provide real-time data analytics to help those on the front lines of the...

Data Scientists Use Machine Learning to Discover COVID-19 Treatments

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Using machine learning algorithms, two data scientists are working to quickly discover effective treatments for COVID-19. For more coronavirus updates, visit our resource page, updated twice...

Leveraging AI for COVID-19 Outreach, Population Health Management

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In the time since the COVID-19 outbreak has escalated to a full-blown global pandemic, buzzwords like artificial intelligence, population health management, and the social determinants of health have...

Machine Learning Tool Uses Real-Time Data to Monitor Flu Trends

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Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) have developed a portable surveillance tool that leverages machine learning and real-time data to monitor flu-like illnesses and...

Amazon Pledges $20M to Support COVID-19 Diagnostics, Research

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched the AWS Diagnostic Development Initiative, a program with an initial investment of $20 million that will accelerate COVID-19 research and testing. For more...