health equity
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Startup Aims To Bring Culturally Competent Care to Neurodivergent Adults Through Partnership
Through a new partnership, Hopper Health’s providers and peer navigators will receive a personalized training plan from Violet that will help the clinicians and navigators understand how to provide inclusive care for patients of color and LGBTQ+ communities. It will teach topics including anti-racism, allyship, social determinants of health, trauma-informed care and other areas.
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Consumer / Employer, Health Tech
Why Is Health Tech Still Not Personalized?
Health technologies are often built based on the “reference man” and frequently don’t take other demographics into account. It shouldn’t be this way, experts argued on a panel Thursday at the HIMSS 2023 conference.
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Jorie Healthcare CEO Shares Why Automation is Critical to Revenue Cycle Management
The revenue cycle management business is using AI tools to automate cumbersome tasks to help hospitals operate more efficiently. It’s beginning to attract the attention of major healthcare organizations.
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CMS Administrator: Telehealth Flexibilities Greatly Expanded Access, But Up To Congress To Extend
During an interview at the AHIP Medicare, Medicaid, Duals and Commercial Markets Forum held Tuesday in Washington, D.C., CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure discussed CMS’ key focus areas for 2023. This includes the end of the public health emergency, health equity and prescription drug costs.
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BCBS Tennessee Unveils Health Disparities in First Health Equity Report
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee’s health equity report analyzed disparities in behavioral health, cancer, child and adolescent care, chronic condition management, Covid-19 and maternal health.
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Expanding Health Equity into Technology: A Preview of the Techquity Conversation at ViVE
The newly launched Techquity for Health Coalition from the HLTH Foundation will share findings from its first national survey of techquity at the conference. Healthcare leaders will also discuss on ways to improve health tech design, tech literacy, accessibility, workforce equity, patient trust, and equitable use of data.
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HLTH Foundation’s Achievements and Ambitions for Health Equity
HLTH Foundation Executive Director Janna Guinen described its focus on promoting equity, inclusion and opportunity in healthcare on behalf of patients, healthcare professionals and health tech entrepreneurs.
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Navigating Healthcare’s Data Revolution: Priorities, Opportunities, and Challenges for Health Systems
Arcadia recently partnered with HIMSS Market Insights to survey executives, IT, technology, and clinical leaders. Here’s what we found.
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MedCity Influencers, BioPharma
After JPM, What Are the Legal Dealmaking Trends to Watch?
After another insightful conference this year, these are some of the key legal deal trends to expect from the health care and life sciences industries in 2023.
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MedCity Influencers, Devices & Diagnostics
10 Key Medtech Themes for 2023
We expect 2023 to be a pivotal year for the industry, as the accelerated acceptance of virtual care and demographic trends, such as an aging population, increasing chronic illnesses and healthcare worker shortages, sustain demand for medtech-enabled solutions.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers
Health Equity is Everyone’s Business; Success Requires a Strategy Rooted in Community Voice and Data
Our research has found that to advance ongoing work, community health ecosystems likely will need additional partners, shared goals, technology, and metrics. But most importantly, they will need the participation and leadership of more community members.
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MedCity Influencers, Consumer / Employer
Want To Improve Patient Engagement? Make Sure They See Themselves
When diversity is well-implemented in healthcare materials, trust is built and patient-provider relationships improve. It also enhances the medical accuracy of the information presented.