Research

NIH Award to Support Informatics-Driven Population Health Research

by Shania Kennedy

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has received a $55.5 million Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Advancing...

NIH Launches AI Program to Advance Biomedical, Behavioral Research

by Shania Kennedy

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is investing $130 million over the next four years through the NIH Common Fund’s Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Bridge2AI) program to advance the use...

UC Irvine Incorporates Natural Language Processing Into Data Science Platform

by Shania Kennedy

The University of California, Irvine (UCI) has partnered with artificial intelligence (AI) software company Melax Tech to enable UCI researchers to analyze EHR data using natural language processing...

Real-World Data Collaboration to Advance Chronic, Acute Disease Research

by Shania Kennedy

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (WashU Medicine) and BJC HealthCare have announced a collaboration with real-world health data company CuriMeta to advance research aimed at...

Experts Call for More Randomized Controlled Trials of Clinical AI

by Shania Kennedy

In a new systematic review published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, researchers concluded that randomized controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted tools...

AI Precision Medicine Approaches Disorganized, Slowed by Gaps

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at Rutgers have concluded that artificial intelligence (AI)-based approaches to precision medicine are limited or slowed by various structural issues, such as disorganization, data...

Researchers Advance Cancer Drug-Matching, Personalized Medicine

by Shania Kennedy

A research team from Clemson University has created an open-source model designed to help medical researchers build scalable prediction models that can represent extensive cellular interactions and...

AI Protein Design Software Trained to Generate Medicines, Vaccines

by Shania Kennedy

Researchers at Harvard and the University of Washington School of Medicine (UW Medicine) have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) software that uses deep learning to design proteins with various...

Public, Population Health Informatics Program Nabs $2.5M to Expand Training

by Shania Kennedy

The Indiana Training Program in Public and Population Health Informatics, a collaboration between Indiana University (IU) and the Regenstrief Institute, has been awarded a five-year continuation of...

NJ Launches Statewide Population Health Data Project

by Shania Kennedy

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...

Drug Diversion Monitoring Solutions Largely Beneficial for Providers

by Shania Kennedy

A new report from KLAS Research found that healthcare organizations reported better transaction pattern identification, drug diversion detection, and overall efficiency when utilizing drug detection...

NCCN Guideline Adherence Lowers Total Cost of Care for Cancer Patients

by Shania Kennedy

Adherence to National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines during treatment correlates to lower total costs of care (TCOC) for breast and colon cancer patients, according to findings...

Stakeholders Urge White House’s AI Office to Include Healthcare

by Shania Kennedy

In a letter to the chair and vice-chair of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office (NAIIO), healthcare and technology stakeholders asked that healthcare be included in the scope of its...

New MIT Technique Aims to Boost Fairness Within Machine-Learning Models

by Mark Melchionna

Recognizing the harm that unbalanced data can bring to the creation of machine-learning models, a study shows how Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers attempted to increase fairness...

AHRQ Program Helped Long-Term Care Facilities Reduce Antibiotic Use

by Mark Melchionna

Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and NORC at the University of Chicago found that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use is...

How Population Health Analytics Drives Value-Based Care Success

by Emily Sokol, MPH

Population health analysis is closely intertwined with value-based care. Not only can population health analytics help identify patient care gaps, but strategies can identify patient-wide interventions...

Deep Brain Stimulation Highly Effective in Parkinson’s Patients

by Jill McKeon

Deep brain stimulation has sustained benefits for Parkinson’s patients fifteen years after device implantation, a recent study published in Neurology reveals. Study participants continue to...

Data Analytics Reveals Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Deaths

by Jill McKeon

A new study by the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) leveraged age-adjusted and state-level data analytics and found that racial disparities are broader than previous research...

White House Announces Website to Advance Artificial Intelligence

by Jessica Kent

The White House has launched AI.gov, a website that will be home to the National AI Initiative and ensure continued US leadership on artificial intelligence research and development. The National AI...

USC, Amazon Launch Center for Secure Machine Learning Development

by Jessica Kent

The University of Southern California and Amazon have established the Center for Secure and Trusted Machine Learning, a joint research effort to develop new approaches to machine learning privacy and...