Population Health
The eventual sunset of the federal public health emergency could be a challenge for many. United Language Group's Leslie Iburg and Abigail Katz discuss what they see going forward, and describe what's needed to reach beneficiaries.
LA Children's received the funding to predict how critically ill children handle medication by applying machine learning to identify clinically significant patterns from the ICU data of 20,000 patients.
The seven members with medical, informatics, IT, data and health information exchange expertise will serve a three-year term on the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the American Medical Association, Race Forward and several partners launched Rise to Health to transform healthcare with shared solutions and collective actions.
A new study, "Closing the digital divide: more and better funding for the digital transformation of health," explores the potentials for building health equity by 2030. Kirsten Mathieson, policy lead at Transform Health, discusses key recommendations from the report.
Racial minorities and women are continuing to make inroads into the field as total enrollment in medical colleges increases.
The legislation would direct the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to develop national guidance to cover prescription digital therapeutics under Medicaid and CHIP.
The American Hospital Association is calling for greater federal support for victims of cyberterrorism to help get hospitals back online quickly. It also advises hospitals to coordinate cyber response with their regional emergency planning efforts.
The federal precision medicine initiative aiming to study the DNA of 1 million volunteers has announced that it has begun returning personalized health-related DNA results to more than 155,000 participants.
Data-driven SDOH insights, links to referrals and payment processing are helping PVA connect veterans to the whole-person care that enables their career pursuits and helps them live full lives.