What happens if President Trump cuts billions of dollars from research on how to make our health care system work better?
Health Care Data
Posted inHealth Technology
Lots of Hospitals Are Using AI. Few Are Testing For Bias
New research sheds light on how many hospitals are using artificial intelligence, what they’re using AI for, and what it means for patients and policymakers.
Posted inPublic Health
When Research and the Realities of Practicing Medicine Collide
Tradeoffs research reporter Soleil Shah shares what he’s learning as a new medical resident about the value and limitations of health policy research.
Posted inPublic Health
The Return of Our Research Newsletter
Meet the man behind our revamped research newsletter.
Posted inHealth Technology
The Next Chapter in Democratizing America’s Health Data
We talk with Micky Tripathi, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, about the push to give patients more access to their health care data.
Posted inHealth Equity
Racial Bias Lurking in Patient Records
Ishani Ganguli on new research showing Black patients have much higher odds of having clinicians write negative descriptors about them.
Posted inCost of Care
Price Hikes Fuel Rising Employer Health Costs
Aditi Sen shares new data from the Health Care Cost Institute on health care spending, utilization and average price trends in the employer-sponsored insurance market.
Posted inMental Health
One County’s 20-Year Effort to Decriminalize Mental Illness
Miami-Dade County has spent the last two decades trying to connect people in mental distress with services instead of jail cells. What have they learned?
Posted inHealth Equity
Why We Still Need More Detailed Data to Advance Health Equity
Samantha Artiga on one of the few analyses to look at how race and sex impact a person’s likelihood of dying from COVID-19.
Posted inHealth Equity
A New Era of Gun Violence Research
As gun violence surges, researchers use new federal funding to search for solutions.