Reducing cancer care disparities will require healthcare stakeholders to improve data integration and surveillance, increase cross-sectoral collaboration, and support innovative care models, according...
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has launched a new Diversity and Inclusion Hub (DIH), a program that will leverage innovative technology and data to address healthcare gaps and the social...
Banner-University Health Plans (BUHP), a division of Banner Health, has built a new Banner Navigation Accelerator model, which will streamline and simplify care coordination by providing physicians...
Federal and state agencies should develop standards for data sharing and interoperability in order to better address patients’ social determinants of health (SDOH), according to a new report from...
At the core of any meaningful healthcare intervention is medical data. A patient’s health history, prescription information, and demographic data are the building blocks of quality care delivery,...
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)'s Visualization Resources of Community-Level Social Determinants of Health Challenge recently announced the 12 phase-one semifinalists.
The challenge was developed by AHRQ to help...
Using a machine learning model, researchers could accurately predict future heart failure among patients with diabetes, a study published in Diabetes Care revealed.
Heart failure is a potential...
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS) is partnering with Phreesia, a patient intake platform, to address individuals’ social determinants of health using real-time...
Precision medicine could someday improve heart failure care by identifying high-risk patients and personalizing heart failure therapies, according to a scientific statement from the American Heart...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is providing $301 million in funds to states and jurisdictions to enhance the actionability of overdose data.
Funded programs will generate...
Real-time data found in the EHR helped researchers identify and target neighborhoods where there were high rates of pediatric hospitalizations, enabling them to apply population health interventions...
Racial minorities, lower-income individuals, and uninsured or publicly insured patients were significantly less likely to report that they had received screenings for oral cancer, revealing critical...
Leaders of rural public health systems often experience challenges with accessing quality data on certain communities or populations, making it difficult to track and address health disparities,...
A team at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has developed a real-time data analytics tool to help treatment centers and counselors identify and treat drug abuse.
Nonprofits trying to...
Lifestyle interventions that focus on altering dietary and physical activity habits can produce sustained weight loss for African American and Hispanic patients with type 2 diabetes, leading to reduced...
Medicaid members who receive community-based services, particularly those that emphasize screening for and addressing the social determinants of health, experienced a 26.3 percent drop in inpatient...
The Boston University School of Public Health (SPH) has announced a five-year partnership with Sharecare, an Atlanta-based digital health company, to mine social determinants of health data and enhance...
Temple University, NIH, and the University of Pittsburgh will partner to open an enrollment site for the All of Us Research Program, an effort to advance precision medicine treatment and care for...
A patient’s social determinants of health contribute more to her health than her genetic code or her medical care. These social determinants of health are factors outside of the traditional healthcare setting that impact an...
Genetic variants may be associated with hypertension prevalence among black patients, indicating that a particular gene plays an important role in regulating blood pressure in this population,...
