Healthcare IT has drawn a great deal of investment for more than a decade as hospitals embraced electronic health records, with the help of incentives. Healthcare IT’s opportunity is compounded by some of the industry’s flaws: About 30 percent of U.S. healthcare spending, or up to approximately $933 billion, is […]
outcomes
COVID-19 Ethnicity subgroup: Interpreting differential health outcomes among minority ethnic groups in wave 1 and 2, 24 March 2021
Executive summary 1. It is clear from ONS quantitative studies that all minority ethnic groups in the UK have been at higher risk of mortality throughout the COVID-19 pandemic (high confidence). Data on wave 2 (1 September 2020 to 31 January 2021) shows a particular intensity in this pattern of […]