Digital Health
by Talia Lewis | Aug 26, 2024 | Commentary, Perspectives
Introduction In our increasingly interconnected world, migration has become a defining feature of global demographics, forced or voluntarily. Across the globe, migrants face numerous challenges accessing essential and appropriate healthcare, ranging from legal...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Apr 8, 2024 | Commentary, Perspectives
Introduction This commentary presents initial concepts and content that the Steering Committee feel may be important to a draft Code of Conduct framework for use in the development and application of artificial intelligence (AI) in health, health care, and biomedical...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Nov 15, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction This case study was developed as one of a set of three studies, focusing on somewhat mature but rapidly evolving technologies. These case studies are intended to draw out lessons for the development of a cross-sectoral governance framework for...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Oct 26, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
ABSTRACT | As the United States grapples with the persistent challenges of chronic pain and substance use disorder (SUD), the rise in telehealth has opened new horizons for health care delivery. This paper delineates a comprehensive action agenda for the...
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...
