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  • Quarterly Article

    Digital Health: An Opportunity to Advance Health Equity for People With Disabilities

    September 2025 Pankaj Jain Bhav Jain Rushabh Doshi Urvish Jain Henry Claypool Ariana Aboulafia Bonnielin K. Swenor

    Throughout the last 50 years, the disability rights movement has made significant progress in providing statutory protections for people with disabilities in the United States. The passage of landmark legislation, including the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (passed in 1975), and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA; passed in 1990), has created a foundation for disability advocates to fight against discrimination and for the expanded rights of the more than 67 million people with disabilities in the United States. In the health care context specifically, there have also been statutes passed to protect patients, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA; passed in 1996) and the Affordable Care Act (ACA; passed in 2010), that have helped to provide privacy and coverage protections for all patients, including people with disabilities who may have disproportionately frequent contacts with the health care system. More

  • Stemming the Tide of the US Overdose Crisis: How Can We Leverage the Power of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence?

    Quarterly Article

    Stemming the Tide of the US Overdose Crisis: How Can We Leverage the Power of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence?

    June 2025 Magdalena Cerdá DANIEL B. NEILL ELLICOTT C. MATTHAY JOHNATHAN A. JENKINS BRANDON D. L. MARSHALL Katherine Keyes

    People in the United States are dying at record numbers from overdose. Overdose deaths increased from fewer than 17,000 deaths in 1999 to an estimated 100,000 deaths approximately 25 years after, with a peak of almost 108,000 deaths in 2022. Racial/ethnic minoritized groups are now particularly affected: in 2023, the highest rates of overdose were among non-Hispanic Black and American Indian/Alaska Native Americans. Although overdoses increasingly involve both opioids and stimulants, opioids contribute to over three-quarters of all overdose deaths, primarily driven by illegally manufactured synthetic opioids like fentanyl. More

  • Quarterly Opinion

    Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Bridge the Mental Health Workforce Gap and Transform Care

    February 2025 Patricia Hong Ezekiel J. Emanuel

    Artificial intelligence technology has opened a new avenue of opportunity to augment the mental health workforce and increase access to care. More

  • Quarterly Article

    Examining the Inclusion of Trust and Trust-Building Principles in European Union, Italian, French, and Swiss Health Data Sharing Legislations: A Framework Analysis

    December 2024 Federica Zavattaro Viktor von Wyl Felix Gille

    Public trust is critical to both system legitimacy and the successful implementation of data-driven health initiatives. Legislations are an essential instrument for building public trust, as they can have a dual effect on trust: a passive effect by reinforcing the public perception of an active regulatory system that upholds the rule of law and an active effect as a tool for policymakers to signal trust-building actions to be undertaken during the implementation phase. More

  • Quarterly Article

    Targeting Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Algorithms in Health Care to Reduce Bias and Improve Population Health

    August 2024 Thelma C. Hurd Fay Cobb Payton Darryl B. Hood

    Artificial intelligence is being embraced as the solution to mitigate differences in health and health outcomes. More

  • Quarterly Opinion

    Cybersecurity Is Increasingly Important for Business—and for Health Care

    January 2023 Gail R. Wilensky

    Protecting the confidentiality and integrity of business networks, data, and devices from cybersecurity intrusion has become a requirement in today’s business environment.  It is especially important to be vigilant in protecting the end users who typically are the easiest point of entry.  More