Technology Archives

07.02.2020 a map of the united states

Health Equity

Narrowing the Digital Divide

Telemedicine is often lauded as a solution for delivering care to medically-underserved areas, but most vulnerable rural groups do not have internet access.

Fellow Gray Babbs

03.25.2020 a person holding a phone

Visualizing Climate Change

The goal of the vulnerability mapping is to help public health agencies and communities understand the interactions between climate, people, and health.

Guest Author Michael Schmeltz

01.27.2020 a close up of a game controller

Predicting Youth Aggression

Kids who play more aggressive video games show no more problem behaviors than those who play fewer, challenging other results from the same dataset.

Guest Author Chris Ferguson

12.05.2019 a woman's hand touching a cell phone

Just Google It

Searching the internet for abortion services may work for some, but it will leave those living far from an abortion provider without good information.

Guest Author Laura Dodge

12.04.2019 a woman smiling at the camera

Health Equity

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo

Oluwatobi Alliyu profiles Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo to define precision medicine and highlight its uptake in health systems for at-risk populations.

Fellow Oluwatobi Alliyu

11.15.2019 a graph of a bar chart

Mental & Behavioral Health

Updating Your Health Status

Questions about privacy and consent arise as researchers predict diagnoses by analyzing individuals' Facebook status updates and electronic medical records.

Fellow Oluwatobi Alliyu

09.27.2019 a comparison of a comparison of a bed and a bed

Tweet Dreams

Our smartphones give unprecedented access to information and connect us to our friends and family, but Americans find it hard to unplug.

Fellow Greg Kantor

09.04.2019 a graph of a number of people

Death Watch

Does the news reflect what we die from? We have been conditioned to fear the exceedingly rare and ignore what’s more likely to kill us.

Fellow Greg Kantor

07.29.2019 a black and white stencil of a man

How Are We Doing?

We must tune ourselves to the human, emotional impact of our healthcare technology advances to lower human suffering and build healthier healthcare systems.

Guest Author Claudia Williams

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