This editorial discusses positions for academic medical centers to consider when designing and implementing artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Artificial intelligence (AI) developers and researchers ...

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is committed to providing healthcare that is fair and just for everyone. Learn about our plan to advance health equity.

Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or another non-heterosexual orientation (LGBTQIA+) continue to face many disparities in both health outcomes and access to good ...

Early this year, The Black Directors Health Equity Agenda, BDHEA, hosted a national summit on advancing healthcare for Black Americans. Conversations centered around community health navigation, the ...

A new framework for health equity leadership lays out the key skills and conditions necessary for success. Over the past several years, as the pandemic exacerbated long-standing inequities, many ...

Access to healthcare is a fundamental human right, yet disparities persist globally. Digital health technologies hold transformative potential to bridge these gaps by enabling more equitable delivery ...

Getting the right healthcare looks different for everyone, and Premera Blue Cross knows that equal access doesn’t always lead to equally helpful care. That’s why the local, not-for-profit health plan ...

Figure 1 depicts the ways in which implicit bias (including stereotypes) that leads to false assumptions about an individual patient, combined with inattention to systemic and structural factors ...

Low or limited health literacy is a predictor of poorer health outcomes and health disparities. Patient populations in the United States who are at higher risk of low/limited health literacy are ...