Digital Health
by Madeleine Deye | Dec 14, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Executive Overview The health of the U.S. population faces a seemingly intractable shortfall in the prospects for large numbers of people, including and especially people of color, long confronting the consequences of structural racism. Yet, rather than focus...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 29, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction Clinical diagnosis is essentially a data curation and analysis activity through which clinicians seek to gather and synthesize enough pieces of information about a patient to determine their condition. The art and science of clinical diagnosis...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 27, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Digital Health in the 21st Century Over the past several decades, the development and accelerated advancement of digital technology has prompted change across virtually all aspects of human endeavor. The positive and negative effects of these changes have been...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 21, 2022 | Commentary, Perspectives
Advances in robotic technologies and intelligent machines will transform the way clinicians care for members of our community within a variety of health care settings, including the home, and, perhaps of far greater importance, offer a means to create a much...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 18, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Over the last decade, some of the digital technologies that have profoundly transformed industries from banking to media have, at last, arrived in health...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Nov 1, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction The emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), coupled with the increasing awareness of racial inequity in the United States, as sparked by the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police officers, has led to a moment of reckoning...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 8, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
A Call to Action Artificial intelligence (AI) is already impacting many facets of American life and is poised to dramatically alter the maintenance of health and the delivery of health care. The explosion of information available to inform the work of health...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Aug 2, 2021 | Commentary, Perspectives
Scientists looking for innovative ways to deliver healthcare have long searched for mechanisms that can enable the right intervention to be delivered at the right time. Traditional delivery mechanisms have been limited both to the availability of a provider...
by Madeleine Deye | Jul 19, 2021 | Commentary, Perspectives
Introduction The scale and scope of human and animal neuroscience research has been increasing exponentially over the past decade. This growth has manifested both as increases in the number of participants in many studies, as well as an increase in the volume...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 7, 2021 | Commentary, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> The novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has stressed the U.S. health care system in an unprecedented manner, highlighting both the system’s resilience...
