Researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have developed a predictive analytics algorithm that can identify future at-risk patients who have undergone hernia surgery, helping providers to...
Higher rural mortality at the state level is strongly linked to socioeconomic status, patient care access, and lack of health insurance, indicating that changes in state and federal policies could...
A team from the University of Virginia (UVA), together with researchers from dozens of institutions around the world, will address and reduce care disparities by sequencing the genes of people across...
Researchers from Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine examined socioeconomic data and found that premature mortality, or death occurring before age 65, is three to eight times...
As healthcare continues its digital transformation in the coming year, the industry will prioritize data governance and chronic disease management to improve treatment and outcomes, according to CVS...
A machine learning algorithm accurately predicted inpatient and emergency department (ED) utilization using only publicly available social determinants of health (SDOH) data, showing that it’s...
While the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has taken measures to reduce care disparities, incomplete or inaccurate race and ethnicity data hinder the organization’s ability to effectively...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced an agreement with Millennium Health, an accredited specialty laboratory, to combat the opioid crisis using near real-time drug testing...
The use of machine learning, natural language processing, and neural networking artificial intelligence technologies are exploding across the healthcare industry. From identifying early stage cancer on...
Emergency medical responders were less likely to provide pain assessments for Asian, black, and Hispanic patients than they were for white patients, indicating significant ethnic and racial disparities...
Improved data standards, data governance, and infrastructure could help the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other stakeholders better leverage social determinants of health data,...
People who presented to the emergency department (ED) with deliberate self-harm had suicide rate in the year after their visit that was 56.8 times higher than demographically similar individuals,...
A team from the University of Southern California (USC) has designed an artificial intelligence algorithm capable of identifying individuals in real-life social groups who could be trained...
A genetic variant found in individuals of African American or Latino ancestry was significantly associated with heart failure, indicating under-recognition and under-diagnosis of this condition,...
Evaluating clinical and socioeconomic data among cancer survivors could help providers develop risk scores to predict those at high risk of misusing opioids after treatment, according to a study...
Providers and payers have come to the realization that effecting system change requires a more comprehensive understanding of the patient beyond the clinical encounter.
Social determinants of health...
The University of Vermont (UVM) Health Network has announced a pilot program introducing genomic DNA testing to routine clinical care, providing individuals with valuable information to guide their...
Researchers at Mount Sinai have proposed an innovative way to identify patterns in the cost and prevalence of multiple chronic conditions.
The team examined Medicaid claims data for 190,000 patients...
The National Institutes of Health and Three Lakes Partners, a philanthropic family organization, has awarded a $22 million grant to support precision medicine research for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis...
Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) at George Washington University has received a $1 million grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to...
