Articles tagged with 'health equity' | OSF HealthCare

OSF HealthCare - Archive (health equity)

2023
November
15,
2023
| 16:26 PM America/Chicago
Dr. Jonathan Handler, OSF Senior Innovation Fellow, was among a panel of experts advising the U.S. President's Cancer Panel on how to improve cancer patient support.
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July
21,
2023
| 10:43 AM America/Chicago
Innovation for Health OSF HealthCare-Bradley University grant is pumping $50,000 in research money into AI, virtual reality for complex heart surgeries.
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July
17,
2023
| 16:20 PM America/Chicago
OSF HealthCare and University of Illinois Chicago are partnering to put $460,000 toward six grant projects to improve health equity and outcomes.
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January
27,
2023
| 10:56 AM America/Chicago
Ten research projects are sharing nearly $1 million in Community Health Advocacy grants to address social determinants of health, reduce health disparities, and improve outcomes.
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2022
December
15,
2022
| 16:28 PM America/Chicago
Nearly $1.8 million in Jump ARCHES grants will fund 16 collaborative, impactful research projects involving OSF, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the U of I College of Medicine in Peoria. 
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June
16,
2022
| 08:42 AM America/Chicago
The first training class for digitally-enabled community health workers has just graduated and is ready to help individuals in underserved communities improve their health.
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June
07,
2022
| 12:01 PM America/Chicago
A newly-published study from OSF HealthCare researchers found targeted interventions and use of digitally-enabled community health workers can  improve mammogram rates for economically disadvantaged women.
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May
06,
2022
| 16:00 PM America/Chicago
Eleven research projects are sharing slightly more than $700,000 through the Jump ARCHES research and development program. Among the projects are efforts to use blockchain technology to reward healthy behaviors, develop a machine learning algorithm
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February
15,
2022
| 15:48 PM America/Chicago
A project led by the OSF Design Lab that leverages data and artificial intelligence to improve childhood vaccination rates has received national recognition as well as $25,000 in funding. The US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS),
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January
27,
2022
| 17:45 PM America/Chicago
Peoria, Illinois-based OSF HealthCare is partnering with the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) to award eight grants totally more than $700,000 to support projects that remove barriers to care, particularly in low-income, under-resourced
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January
27,
2022
| 13:23 PM America/Chicago
More than 58,000 people in Chicago experience homelessness, and with that, comes an increased likelihood of premature death because of a lack of connection to ongoing medical care.A grant-funded project through the inaugural Community Health
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January
19,
2022
| 14:46 PM America/Chicago
Twenty research projects are sharing slightly more than $1.4 million in funding through the Jump ARCHES research and development program to address a variety of vexing medical challenges including neurological testing for children and athletes (such
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2021
October
14,
2021
| 11:51 AM America/Chicago
OSF HealthCare joins SWITCH, a new independent organization launched by City Tech Collaborative (City Tech), a Chicago-based urban solutions accelerator, to address health equity in Chicago. The Peoria, Illinois-based health system, which operates
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