Technology and Innovation
by Madeleine Deye | May 23, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction A recent review suggests that 5.03 billion individuals use the Internet worldwide, with approximately 4.70 billion, or 59% of the global population, using some form of social media (Kemp, 2022). While it is challenging to determine overlap across...
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 Madeleine Deye | Nov 14, 2022 | Commentary, Perspectives
Animals have been used as scientific research subjects since at least the 4th century BCE (Guerrini, 2003). Since then, there has been both support for and objections to that use. Some similarity between nonhuman animals and humans powers the arguments of both...
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 | Sep 19, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Since December 2019, much of the world’s focus has been on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as it emerged from Wuhan, China and rapidly spread across the world. As of this writing, there were over 570 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 globally, and...
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 >> ABSTRACT | United States health care spending consumes nearly a fifth of the GDP [1]. While, in many respects, the U.S. health care system is enviable and...
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...
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