The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has issued a call to action for experts to build artificial intelligence tools that can be applied to a new COVID-19 dataset.
For more...
Black and Hispanic pediatric patients fared worse than non-Hispanic white patients during brain cancer treatment and follow-up, indicating that racial disparities have a significant impact on...
As the volume of healthcare data increases and the shift to value-based care accelerates, clinical decision support tools are becoming more and more critical to ensure quality care delivery.
From...
ONC is working to advance precision medicine research by supporting projects that improve health data standards, adopting policies that support data security and privacy, and promoting data sharing...
The Department of Defense (DoD) has adopted a series of ethical principles for the use of artificial intelligence following recommendations made by the Defense Innovation Board last October.
The...
The FDA approved or cleared 12 personalized medicines and seven diagnostics in 2019, helping providers address the root causes of disease and further integrating precision medicine with clinical...
The Institute for Gene Therapies (IGT), a new advocacy foundation focused on policy issues surrounding gene therapies, recently launched with the goal of modernizing US regulatory and reimbursement...
Hospitals and health information exchanges (HIEs) still struggle with patient matching issues, with many citing data quality problems and poor algorithms as top barriers to patient matching, according...
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...
The 2020 Best in KLAS report has ranked Epic Systems as number one in the Overall Software Suite category for the tenth consecutive year.
The company was also named the top Overall Physician Practice...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched a public, interactive database that will offer critical information about antiretrovirals (ARVs) to treat HIV.
“This launch is an important...
Machine learning algorithms have the potential to accelerate and refine the drug development process, but the industry should expand data access and create consistent data standards to ensure drug...
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is recommending that NIH dramatically revise its data sharing and management proposal to maximize the value of scientific data.
In October 2018, NIH...
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 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) has expressed its support for the FDA’s updated guidance for regulating clinical decision support (CDS) software, but experts are also calling...
The FDA’s MyStudies platform, a tool that aims to collect real-world data to improve clinical trials and advance medical research, is now available on Google Cloud Platform.
Launched in November...
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,...
While many healthcare organizations are able to perform data tasks associated with population health management, vendors are struggling to deliver more advanced solutions for improved care management,...
North Carolina has implemented several measures that have combated the opioid epidemic across the state, but more work could be done to increase the rate at which people with opioid use disorder (OUD)...
