Care Delivery Innovation

How a Cancer-Screening Blood Test Could Backfire

A new JAMA Internal Medicine article reviews the evidence for a widely hyped cancer-screening blood test — and finds it lacking.

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South Carolina’s Bold Maternal Health Experiment Disappoints

A large randomized trial showed home visits from nurses for pregnant people did not improve their or their babies’ health outcomes.

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How Smartwatches Could Lead Doctors to Overtreat Patients

A new study suggests doctors struggle to know when and how to act on heart rhythm data generated by patients’ smartwatches.

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Experts Share Four Key Studies you Might have Missed this Summer

Experts from the Tradeoffs Advisory Board share some of their favorite new health policy studies.

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Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Part 2

The Biden administration is proposing new regulations to keep racial bias in AI from getting to the bedside.

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Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Part 1

Artificial intelligence could revolutionize health care. It could also perpetuate and exacerbate generations of racial inequities.

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A Rare RCT of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

A new randomized controlled trial in Nature shows the potential of artificial intelligence to help diagnose deadly heart conditions.

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What the PHE Taught Us About Sick Leave, Telemedicine and Public Health Powers

A trio of studies help mark the end of the PHE, and recap some of the health policy lessons learned from this unprecedented period.

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Could ChatGPT Be Your New Health Coach?

A recent study finds ChatGPT answers everyday heart health questions accurately – most of the time.

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When Home Becomes a Hospital

What have we learned from the pandemic-feuled expansion of hospital-at-home care?

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