On March 27, Emory University invites thinkers, seekers, innovators and leaders to participate in a full day of conversation about AI and what it means for humanity now.

Annual benefits enrollment is open from Oct. 28 through Nov. 11, 2024, allowing employees of Emory University and Emory Healthcare to make benefits changes. This year, Emory is introducing a new approach to medical rates.

The National Academy of Medicine has selected Roxana C. Chicas, PhD, RN, FAAN, a faculty member at Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, to participate in the American Academy of Nursing Fellowship, part of the NAM Fellowships program.

The Georgia Nursing Workforce Center has released a report on Georgia’s advanced practice nursing education programs. The report is the first of its kind in the state.

Annual benefits enrollment for Emory University employees opened on Monday, Oct. 23, and will be open through Monday, Nov. 6. Find out what’s new for the coming year and how to enroll online.

Emory’s Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES), the only national data collection tool that connects pre-hospital cardiac arrest data with hospital outcomes, will receive $23.85 million in grant funding over the next five years from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The new grant marks a return to public funding for the CARES performance and quality improvement program, something made possible through recent legislation that was signed into law at the end of last year.

Test-and-Go COVID-19 testing will be available on Emory campuses starting in mid-December. Anyone in the Emory community is able to access these self-administered PCR tests.

Ask Kylie Smith why the humanities are important to health care, and she will tell you that the answer is in the word itself. “To administer effective health care, you have to be able to understand humans and their complexities,” says Smith, an associate professor at the Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. “Many health care problems we are trying to fix are caused by historical or policy issues, so you really can’t get the whole picture if you are not thinking about how it got this way.”

Immunity against mumps virus appears insufficient in a fraction of college-aged people who were vaccinated in childhood, Emory/CDC research indicates. The findings highlight the need to better understand the immune response to mumps and mumps vaccines.

Medicare's Merit-based Incentive Payment System gives too little consideration to the impact of social determinants of health on population health outcomes, according to a commentary in The American Journal of Accountable Care. Adam S. Wilk, PhD, assistant professor of health policy and management at the Emory Rollins School of Public Health is first author of the article, and Sanjula Jain, PhD, of the Health Management Academy, is a co-author.

Racial disparities in asthma can largely be explained by looking at socioeconomic and environmental factors, such as access to healthcare, a nationwide analysis shows.

A study of insurance claims suggests that families with an established relationship with their primary care doctor are more likely to seek emergency care promptly when a child is experiencing painful symptoms of appendicitis.

Adam S. Wilk, PhD, assistant professor of Health Policy and Management at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, recently published an article in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law that explores state policy makers' decisions in 2014 on a time-limited aspect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that provided increased fees for primary care services in Medicaid.

An editorial in the Oct. 3, 2017 online issue of Annals of Internal Medicine highlights the benefits of hormonal contraceptives and the need to continue coverage on health insurance plans.

Xu Ji, doctoral candidate at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health, is lead author on a paper published in Medical Care, that demonstrates the negative impact breaks in Medicaid coverage can have on populations suffering from severe depression.

Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), an orthopedic surgeon trained at Emory, was named by the President-elect as his pick for Health and Human Services secretary. Price could have a key role in reshaping health care.

Many common medical treatments have never been tested in a clinical trial. A new study published in the July issue of Health Affairs highlights how evidence from trials of untested but widely used treatments can change medical practice and help patients.

A recent report led by researchers at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University shows that out-of-pocket expenses for medications within the most popular health insurance Marketplace plan - the silver plan - are twice as high as the average employer-sponsored health plans.

In a survey of US emergency departments (EDs), visits that included treatment by both an attending physician and a resident in training (defined as a supervised visit) were associated with a greater chance of hospital admission, use of advanced imaging and a longer ED stay, when compared to attending-only visits in the ED.

Researchers have known since the late 1980s that people with a serious mental health disorder are generally sicker and die younger than those without such a disorder. The weak link between mental health care and primary or specialist care is one that experts at the Emory University have sought to better define.

A recent study by researchers at Emory¿s Rollins School of Public Health found that safety net hospitals ¿hospitals that serve large shares of poor and underserved populations-- were more likely than other hospitals to be penalized under key provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

In recent years Emory Healthcare has been embracing the Accountable Care Unit, a model of collaborative practice in which teams work together to coordinate care.

Since 2010, the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing has pursued joint projects that combine health care and engineering know-how, for the benefit of patients.

For the past three years, Dee Cantrell and a team of information architects have been implementing a health information to provide the infrastructure and mechanism by which Emory's own electronic medical record can share information with others systems.

A new center at the Rollins School of Public Health raises the profile of mental health research and education to aid a vulnerable segment of the U.S. population.

Zhou Yang, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health, proposes a new approach to Medicare reform in a recent Health Affairs Blog. The plan proposes incorporating a Lifetime Value-Based Payment Plan that includes shared responsibility among beneficiaries, providers and the federal government to promote better health and technology innovation in a treatment and care delivery model.

William Bornstein, MD, PhD, chief medical and quality officer for Emory Healthcare, joined four prominent lawmakers at a Washington, DC, news conference to introduce a bi-partisan bill calling for a patient-centered approach to Medicare coverage and care for beneficiaries with two or more chronic conditions.

An Emory student group has won part of a $2.2 million federal grant to help educate the public about insurance options available under the Affordable Care Act.

The increasing proportion of the population that received treatment for a specific medical condition - called "treated disease prevalence" - along with higher spending per treated case accounted for most of the rise in health care spending in the U.S. between 1987 and 2009, according to a recent analysis.

The rise in childhood obesity and associated health conditions have become a significant concern in the United States. An initiative by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, which fights childhood obesity, found benefits in expanding health care coverage to obesity services, preventive care and ensuring that families comply with preventive care guidelines.