The nation’s third-largest nonprofit health system, Providence St. Joseph Health, has created a for-profit population health management company called Ayin Health Solutions.

An AI-based platform that prepares patients for total joint replacement surgery was associated with shorter hospital stays, according to a study published in the Annals of Translational Medicine.

Some obesity-related cancers—including colorectal, gallbladder, kidney and pancreatic cancer—are on the rise among adults aged 25 to 49, compared to older generations, according to new research published in The Lancet: Public Health on World Cancer Day.

A handful of hospitals have implemented mandatory screenings of medical professionals older than 70 to tease out which ones should retire, reduce their workloads or transition to roles outside of patient care. But far more institutions don’t have any such processes in place.

Russian researchers and radiologists have developed AI software that can distinguish and subsequently mark lung cancers on a CT scan within 20 seconds. 

Treatment at minority-serving hospitals (MSHs) is associated with significantly lower odds of receiving palliative care, compared with treatment at a non-minority-serving hospital, according to new research published in JAMA Network Open.

Cardiovascular hospitalizations in Louisiana rose sharply after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in August 2005—an increase that seemed to disproportionately affect black patients—Tufts researchers reported in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

The opioid overdose epidemic, which resulted in 48,000 deaths in 2017, isn't getting better anytime soon, according to recent research published in JAMA.