Is Bias in Clinical AI Good or Bad? It’s More Complicated Than That
We do not need models that pretend every patient has equal or equitable access to care. We need models capable of recognizing disparities and responding to them.
Medicaid’s Health Equity Problem Starts and Ends with Health-Related Social Needs (HRSNs). Why Are They Being Overlooked?
While federal healthcare programs focus their attention on ensuring healthcare resources exist for communities in need, HRSNs become critical drivers of whether individuals can actually access and benefit from these resources.
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Inside an Automated Healthcare Practice: Redesigning Care Around People, Not Paperwork
By reducing administrative burden and redesigning workflows around human needs, it creates space for what matters most: connection between clinicians and patients.
Biden’s Executive Order for Studying Women’s Health: How to Not Squander This Opportunity
Given our questionable track record of driving consistent progress, it’s important that we create a roadmap to optimize the success for this exciting moment.
Why One CEO Thinks Drugs Won’t Be Able to Solve the Obesity Crisis
New research found that there are no racial disparities in weight loss results among patients taking obesity drugs. However, the study found that people of color have less access to services like behavioral care or surgical interventions, which are often needed in order for patients to lose weight and keep it off. To tackle this issue, Enara Health CEO Rami Bailony argued that the U.S. healthcare system must innovate the way it dispenses weight loss drugs, employing a more holistic care approach.
LLMs Can Perpetuate Harmful Ideas About Race-Based Medicine, Study Shows
A new study led by Stanford researchers tested four commercially available LLMs and found that they all could potentially cause harm by breeding inaccurate, racist information. For example, all models tried to justify race-based medicine when asked questions about calculating patients’ kidney function and lung capacity — two areas where race-based medicine practices used to be common but have since been scientifically refuted.
Report: Cancer deaths are down but pancreatic cancer is growing, racial disparities persist
Targeted drugs and immunotherapies are among the advances that contribute to declines in incidence and deaths from non-small cell lung cancer, according to the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer. But the trends are on the rise for some other cancers and racial disparities persist, highlighting the need to better understand these differences.
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Top 7 Modern AI-Powered EAP Providers for Global Workforces in 2026
Discover the top AI-powered EAP providers for 2026. Compare platforms like Kyan Health and Spring Health on triage speed, global reach, and clinical quality to transform workforce wellbeing.
Eight examples of humanism in action during COVID-19 and the global racial reckoning
The Gold Corporate Council and nonprofit Arnold P. Gold Foundation share examples of the vast work underway to support compassion and inclusion in healthcare
Providers, payers & startups are all looking for key pieces to solve the maternal care puzzle
America's abysmal record on maternal care outcomes and equity has spurred the rise of startups as well as innovative strategies from providers and payers, each trying to solve a piece of the larger problem. But these entities will also need the help of policymakers to truly improve care in this arena.
Researchers warn of potential disparities from race adjustments used in spirometers
Researchers are investigating whether a built-in race adjustment in spirometers could further exacerbate health disparities caused by the pandemic. The medical device is commonly used to diagnose breathing conditions.
FDA issues warning on pulse oximeter limitations, but says little about racial disparities
In an alert on Friday, the Food and Drug Administration warmed that pulse oximeters might be inaccurate in some circumstances. The agency listed skin color among other factors that may affect the accuracy of a reading, but didn’t mention research that has demonstrated the devices miss low blood oxygen levels more often in Black patients.
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The Power of Real World Data to Study Women’s Health at Scale
Veradigm examines key clinical trends, comorbidity profiles, and treatment trends across adolescence, reproductive years, and peri-/post-menopause. Download it today!
Communication, transparency may help close health disparities
What is needed? Better bedside manner, so patients actually trust their doctors. Communication that is easily understood by everyday people. And transparency about what medical care costs, plus a willingness to discuss how price points fit into consumers’ health decisions.
Hospice illustrates challenge of changing black Americans’ negative attitudes towards palliative care
Medicare currently requires patients to give up life-sustaining therapies in order to receive hospice benefits. That trade-off strikes some black families as unfair.
How can healthcare professionals better manage their unconscious racial bias?
It’s too early to know if these new types of trainings that explore unconscious bias are actually having any effect on what goes on in the exam room.