Health equity drives system leadership as executives prioritize community health, social determinants, and value-based care strategies.

Preserving public health data is vital to our democracy. Data tell the story of who we are as a nation. It can inform policies that meet community needs, determine how government spends money, and ...

While acknowledging the challenges to using SDOH information in practice, a presenter at the American College of Rheumatology ...

Defined by the World Health Organization as systematic differences in the health status of different population groups, health inequity remains a fundamental issue in our healthcare system and society ...

Digital technologies can enhance infection detection and patient safety, but risk creating two-tier health systems that ...

This is Part 1 of Embedded Bias, a series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it's so difficult to change them. Pediatrician Alexandra Epee-Bounya had had enough. In ...

Unmet health-related social needs (HRSN) undergird and often exacerbate poor health outcomes and quality of life. These critical health-influencing factors disproportionately impact members of ...

Sophia Humphreys, PharmD, MHA, BCBBS, discusses common barriers to cancer therapy and how care teams can assist patients in ...

(Editor’s note: The federal government has removed several web pages linked to in this brief. Where possible, links to archived versions have been inserted.) Data are the cornerstone of public health ...

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is taking business operations and everyday life by storm, and the healthcare industry isn't immune. The next few years will likely see significant leaps in ...

Beyer is an M.D./Ph.D. candidate at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. As a pediatrician and a scientist-in-training, I conduct research on a critical question ...