May 3, 2024 - Medicine’s focus on racial health disparities and health equity has brought to the forefront another key concept in healthcare delivery and patient care: implicit bias. Implicit bias, a phrase that is not unique to healthcare, refers to the unconscious prejudice individuals might feel about another thing, group, or person. According...

May 1, 2024 - The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has finalized two rules strengthening section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), banning all gender- and sex-based discrimination in healthcare organizations or in any HHS grant program. The first final rule, unveiled on April 26, protects members of the LGBTQ+ community, the agency said,...

April 30, 2024 - A universal housing security and social determinants of health (SDOH) screening process in the emergency department is providing key insights into the social supports necessary to cut down on ED utilization, researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center wrote in JAMA Network Open. Overall, 5 percent of patients presenting in VUMC’s...

April 26, 2024 - Social media has proven a breeding ground for medical misinformation over the past decade, particularly during the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, but new research shows some platforms’ crowdsourced efforts to fight inaccuracies are paying off. In a new JAMA article, researchers from the University of California San Diego’s Qualcomm...