American patients will see an average of 18.7 different doctors during their lives. Each encounter will generate its own data, including diagnoses, vital statistics, lab results, medications and more.

UC San Francisco Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative has released the largest representative study of homelessness in the United States since the mid-1990s, providing a comprehensive look at ...

Patients who need frequent hospitalization account for a disproportionate amount of health care spending in the United States. In 2012, the University of Chicago Medicine—funded by a Health Care ...

Ivan Smith, a UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative (BHHI) Research Data Analyst, conducts surveys with people living in a Santa Clara County homeless encampment. Photo by Barbara Ries UC ...