A new study published in The Lancet reveals never-before-seen details about staggeringly high mortality from the COVID-19 pandemic within and across countries. Places such as Mexico City, Peru, and Bolivia had some of the largest drops in life expectancy from 2019 to 2021. The research, which presents updated estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2021, provides the most comprehensive look at the pandemic’s toll on human health to date, indicating that global life expectancy dropped by 1.6 years from 2019 to 2021, a sharp reversal from past increases. Among GBD’s other key findings, child mortality continued to
By Editorial Staff
– Big data analytics is a major undertaking for the healthcare industry.
Providers who have barely come to grips with putting data into their electronic health records (EHRs) are now tasked with pulling actionable insights out of them – and applying those learnings to complicated initiatives that directly impact reimbursement.
For healthcare organizations that successfully integrate data-driven insights into their clinical and operational processes, the rewards can be huge. Healthier patients, lower care costs, more visibility into performance, and higher staff and consumer satisfaction rates are among the many benefits of turning data assets
Washington, DC – The US Department of Health and Human Services released its Data Strategy, which seeks to further realize the Department’s mission by advancing its management and use of data to improve human health outcomes. It envisions data that is available, accessible, timely, equitable, meaningfully usable, and protected–and can be effectively used by HHS, its partners, and the public. In support of President Biden’s Unity Agenda, the strategy promotes greater access to data to advance cancer research and improve patient outcomes and advance the goal of the Biden Cancer Moonshot to cut the cancer death rate in half over