Behavioral health crises rarely manifest overnight. For health plans, the warning signs are hiding in plain sight – as data points scattered across disconnected systems, locked in outdated records, or ...

Modern human and veterinary medical interventions to combat infectious diseases depend on the continued efficacy of ...

Hospital systems are often recognized as the foundation of health care for rural communities due to their range of services ...

This article presents challenges and solutions regarding health care–focused large language models (LLMs) and summarizes key recommendations from major regulatory and governance bodies for LLM ...

Increasingly, states are adopting Section 1115 waivers that allow Medicaid to address health-related social needs (HRSN) such as food insecurity, housing instability, and lack of transportation. Ten ...

The Trump administration’s cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development and other aid funding for global health are cruel and catastrophic. One estimate just published in the journal Nature ...

Generative AI models can identify social determinants of health (SDOH) in doctors’ notes, a new study finds. SDOH like housing and income are major drivers of health outcomes. But these factors are ...

Hello and welcome to Health Affairs This Week. I'm your host, Jeff Byers. We're recording on 04/02/2025. As a reminder, we have a theme issue on food, nutrition, and health coming out next week. Be on ...