by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 11, 2024 | Payers, Tea Leaves
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association will lead an effort to improve maternity care in about 600 acute care and pediatric hospitals across the nation, including a push to address racial and ethnic disparities. Health equity in maternal care will be added to the list...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 11, 2024 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders, Tea Leaves
A record number of high school teens died of drug overdoses in 2022 in an alarming trend driven primarily by fentanyl poisonings from counterfeit pills, according to a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Using data from the CDC, the Boston...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 11, 2024 | Mental Health, Tea Leaves
Women who suffer from depression during or after a pregnancy are at an elevated risk for suicide, two recent studies found. The first study, published Tuesday in the JAMA Network Open journal, found that women with perinatal depression (PND) were three times as likely...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 11, 2024 | Inequities and SDOH, Tea Leaves
A new study finds that generative AI models can identify social determinants of health (SDOH) in doctors’ notes. SDOH are major drivers of health outcomes, but these factors are notoriously under-documented in existing EHR structured data. While a subset of billing...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 11, 2024 | Public Health/Prevention, Tea Leaves
The World Health Organization (WHO) says that nearly 10,000 people died from COVID-19 in the month of December, and hospital admissions jumped 42 percent in Europe and the Americas. The increased transmission was fueled by holiday gatherings and a new variant. While...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 11, 2024 | Health IT, Tea Leaves
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached a first-of-its-kind settlement with a data broker that the regulator alleged sold data that could be used to track visits to locations like medical clinics. The FTC alleged that Outlogic, formerly known as X-Mode Social,...
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