In the context of applying machine learning to solve problems for risk prediction, disease detection, and treatment evaluation, EHR pose many challenges– they do not have a consistent, standardized format across institutions particularly in US, can contain human errors and introduce collection biases. In addition, some institutions or geographic regions do not have access to the technology or financial resources necessary to implement EHR, thus resulting in vulnerable and disadvantaged communities not being electronically visible.
A roadmap for health care leaders to execute intrinsic agency toward equity, supporting SDGs 3 and 10.
There are undeniable historic and contemporary hardships faced by Indigenous Peoples regarding access to medical treatments, research opportunities, clinical trial participation, and careers. The goal of the PNOC/CBTN DEI working group is to bring such inequities to our pediatric neuro-oncology community and beyond and start to develop and collaborate towards solutions.
Digital health programs are urgently needed to accelerate the adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Clinical Decision Support Systems (AI-CDSS) in clinical settings. However, such programs are still lacking for undergraduate medical students, and new approaches are required to prepare them for the arrival of new and unknown technologies.
The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed annually on the day the police in Sharpeville, South Africa, opened fire and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration against apartheid "pass laws" in 1960. The UN General assembly created this day to signify the struggle to end the policy of apartheid in South Africa and call on the the international community to end all forms of racial discrimination.
This article aligns with the SDG goal 3 of Good health and wellbeing and SDG 10 Reduced inequalities by highlighting opportunities to leverage real data to better understand the outcomes of direct-acting antiviral treatment in smaller, discrete subgroups of HCV-infected patients that cannot be comprehensively evaluated in clinical trials.
This Article supports SDG 3 by providing the first systematic review on uptake of testing and treatment and turnaround times to treatment initiation with point-of-care HCV testing versus standard laboratory testing, finding improvements on both fronts; this is reflected in new WHO recommendations on adoption of point-of-care HCV testing as an alternative to laboratory-based tests.
WGS data revealed that herpesvirus/anelloviruses are naturally found in European populations. This represents the first comprehensive research on the plasma virome of pregnant Turkish women.
This article aligns with the SDG goal 3 of Good health by showing that hepatitis E superinfection accelerate disease progression and increase long-term mortality in patients with hepatitis B liver cirrhosis
This chapter advances Goals 4, 10, and 3 by providing an overview of human rights education in formal and non-formal educational spaces and in professional settings. It includes current debates in the field around the pedagogy and practice of teaching human rights.
