Highlights:
- Throughout the pandemic, organizations leveraged AI and data analytics tools to track disease spread and assess patient risk. The crisis pushed academic institutions, health systems, and vendors to develop and refine their AI and machine learning capabilities, setting the stage for even more advanced technologies in 2021.
- Social determinants of health data will also play a critical role in the healthcare industry in 2021. While this information is typically difficult to access and share, COVID-19 made social determinants data a crucial asset for organizations seeking to target interventions and get ahead of poor outcomes.
- The heightened emphasis on social determinants of health during the pandemic has also led researchers to examine the non-clinical factors that impact patient health. A team from Michigan Medicine recently discovered that racial disparities in cancer and COVID-19 outcomes stem from very similar factors, a finding that could inform public health policies.
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