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Kaiser Permanente Awards Funding for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Healthcare Research

Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research's Augmented Intelligence in Medicine and Healthcare Initiative (AIM-HI) Coordinating Center has granted funding to five healthcare organizations....

Enhancing Exposome Research: The Vital Role of Preprocessing Techniques and Data Analysis

The exposome, a popular framework for studying exposures from chemical and nonchemical stressors across one's lifespan, has been widely utilized to understand complex health...

Need for Comprehensive Economic Evaluation of Prehabilitation Programs Revealed

A systematic review was carried out to gather and summarize the economic assessments of prehabilitation implementations that currently exist. The potential benefits of prehabilitation,...

The Global Economic Burden of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis

A recent systematic review and meta-analysis were carried out to determine the international economic burden of catastrophic costs associated with MDR-TB on patients and...

Hyperledger Fabric Framework: A Secure Solution for Electronic Health Records

The Hyperledger Fabric (HF) framework is gaining attention for its potential to secure electronic health records (EHRs) in healthcare. Although blockchain technology finds application...

Investigating the Influence of Cancer Hazard Identification on Public Health Policy

A recently proposed approach aims to investigate whether formally identifying a substance as a human carcinogen may prompt regulatory action to decrease exposure to...

The Application of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing Method in Healthcare: A Systematic Mapping Review

The methods used to create process maps in healthcare for care pathways utilizing the time-driven activity-based costing method are identified in a recent systematic...

The U.S. Health Spending: A Shift in Growth Rates, GDP Share, and Prescription Drug Costs

In the recent year, U.S. health spending saw an increase of 4.1%, reaching a total of $4.5 trillion. The rate of growth is more...

ICER’s Report Reveals $1.3 Billion Surge in U.S. Healthcare Spending

The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) has revealed that the price increases of eight specific drugs led to a surge of nearly...

Barriers to Research Uptake in Health Policy and Practice in Low- and Middle-income Countries

A scoping review has been conducted to compile the current evidence on the barriers to the uptake of research in health policy and practice...

Bundled Payment for Care Improvement vs Fee-for-Service in Brazil

The effectiveness of the Bundled Payment for Care Improvement (BPCI) versus fee-for-service (FFS) was examined through a systematic review and meta-analysis. In Brazil, healthcare...

Forecasting the Future of HIV/AIDS in Turkiye: Prevalence, Impact, and Economic Burden

A descriptive analysis of official data on HIV/AIDS in Turkiye was conducted by ECONiX Research to assess existing statistics and raise social awareness.The study...

The Gravity Model: A Dominant Method in Measuring Potential Spatial Healthcare Access

The quantification of spatial access to care, a critical aspect of healthcare planning, involves the correlation between healthcare access and availability. A variety of...

ADHD Associated with Increased Service Utilization and Costs, Study Finds

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders in children, has been the focus of an extensive study synthesizing the literature on...

Analyzing Preferences for Virtual Care Models: A Systematic Review of Discrete Choice Experiments

A systematic review has synthesized evidence from discrete choice experiments (DCEs) to analyze preferences for various virtual care models. The review also evaluated the...

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