The research from Mary Catherine Beach, MD, MPH, a professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and her team was aimed at bridging communication between patients and ...

This reliance on electronic records is "almost a hidden form of bias," explained Dr. Andrew Boyd, UIC associate professor of biomedical and health information sciences and lead author of the ...

Results of clinical trials are only as good as the data upon which they rest. This is especially true in terms of diversity — if most people in a trial are from a certain race or socioeconomic group, ...

Physicians were more likely to include terms that undermine the competence and sincerity of Black patients' claims when compared with White patients in a recent study. Black patients were more likely ...

Context: Health care delivery is now inextricably linked to the use of electronic health records (EHRs), which exert considerable influence over providers, patients, and organizations. Methods: This ...

Researchers find younger, Black non-Hispanic, publicly insured, and male patients are at highest likelihood of being the subject of an electronic behavioral alert. Patient behavioral alerts in ...