COVID-19: An Urgent Call for Coordinated, Trusted Sources to Tell Everyone What They Need to Know and Do

by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 5, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives

The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >>       Since 1995, the global community has experienced six outbreaks that the World Health Organization (WHO), as authorized in a 2005 revision of the...

Language, Interpretation, and Translation: A Clarification and Reference Checklist in Service of Health Literacy and Cultural Respect

by Jenna Ogilvie | Feb 18, 2020 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  “The first skill of a great translator is humbleness, to be a servant. Once you are a servant, you may be lucky to be called a master of your craft. And, you need the humbleness to understand your original, to be part of it—then also the practical humbleness to...

What If?: Transforming Diagnostic Research by Leveraging a Diagnostic Process Map to Engage Patients in Learning from Errors

by Jenna Ogilvie | Feb 18, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives

  The Problem Researchers estimate that up to 80,000 deaths per year in U.S. hospitals can be attributed to some form of diagnostic error [1]. Misdiagnosis affects 12 million Americans in ambulatory care settings annually. The National Academies of Sciences,...

United States Government Accountability Office Releases Technology Assessment on Artificial Intelligence and Health Care, Including Field Background Content from the National Academy of Medicine

by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 22, 2020 | News

The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released a new technology assessment titled Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Benefits and Challenges of Machine Learning in Drug Development. The technology assessment is in two parts – the first...

Bereavement Care in America is Broken: A Call to Action

by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 21, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives

  The death of a child, at any age, is considered to be one of the most—if not the most—stressful life events a person can go through. This experience is shared across cultures and continents, and the stress is enduring [1]. In the United States, the prevalence...