UnitedHealthcare Awards $11M in Grants to Address Social Determinants of Health
What You Should Know: – Health insurer UnitedHealthcare has donated $11M in grants to nonprofit organizations across 11 states. – These grants are part of […]
What You Should Know: – Health insurer UnitedHealthcare has donated $11M in grants to nonprofit organizations across 11 states. – These grants are part of […]
Are non-English-speaking patients seen as quickly in the emergency department (ED) as English-speaking patients? If not, is this gap limited to certain non-English languages, or […]
What You Should Know: – Teladoc Health recently added an at-home A1C testing program to its chronic care solution, making it easier for members to manage their diabetes while also bridging health […]
What You Should Know: – Nanopath, a molecular diagnostics company enabling high-quality molecular testing in minutes raises $10M in Series A funding, co-led by co-led […]
What You Should Know: – Velatura Services (Velatura) today announced that it has been selected as part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Health Equity Initiative, […]
In a world where care delivery and patient-to-provider interactions are increasingly facilitated by digital tools, and the makers of those tools count hundreds—even thousands—of healthcare […]
UCLA Health recently announced the inaugural cohort of startups for its health equity accelerator. The seven digital health startups, which represent pre-seed through Series A-stage […]
Elizabeth Hogan Hamacher, MHL, BSN, RN, VP of Clinical Services and Support, Podimetrics Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in the United […]
Jessica Bonham-Werling, Payer and Provider Solutions Marketing at Redox The Institute for Healthcare improvement indicates that twice as many healthcare organizations cite health equity as […]
What You Should Know: – Humanity Health, a New York City-based career acceleration and talent sourcing platform for underrepresented leaders in healthcare and life sciences, […]
What You Should Know: – Today, Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, announced that Curana Health is partnering with Innovaccer to build a leading edge […]
– What You Should Know: Inovalon, a provider of cloud-based software solutions empowering data-driven healthcare unveils a new data enrichment offering that allows health plans to improve […]
What You Should Know: – In its latest effort to address critical mental health needs in North Carolina, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North […]
What You Should Know: – Health cloud company Innovaccer Inc, today announced it is expanding into the public sector to improve collaboration between agencies, optimize […]
Siddharth Thakkar, VP, Product and Marketing at IKS Health For the better part of a decade, the shift toward value-based care in the U.S. has […]
The low-income patient populations who bear disproportionate disease burdens are the same populations who are most likely to face barriers in health technology use, according […]
Boston Medical Center launched a program dedicated to speeding up the timeline between discovering health inequities and implementing action plans to address them. The hospital […]
LGBTQ Americans have a lack of understanding of the preventive health services they need, compared to the general population, a new report found. In order […]
What You Should Know: – The Chicago ARC, a new venture collaborative focused on accelerating health equity solutions, has signed Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with […]
Rachael Jones, SVP of Performance Analytics and Quality at Cotiviti In Florida, where Black residents are three times more likely to be hospitalized or die […]
A new report from Partnership for Health Analytic Research or PHAR describes how value assessments that use traditional cost-effectiveness analyses can overlook important health disparities […]
C.K. Wang, Chief Medical Officer of COTA, Inc. In April, FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf laid out areas of challenge and opportunity when it comes […]
A recent analysis highlights how potential gene therapies have the potential to dramatically reduce income disparities for patients with sickle cell disease, leading to as […]
What You Should Know: – Lightbeam Health Solutions, Inc., a provider of population health management solutions and services has entered into an asset purchase agreement to […]
What You Should Know: – Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced the launch of the next AWS Healthcare Accelerator—this year with a new focus on health equity. […]
Creating health narratives focused on patients and using this data as a learning curve would better help us reframe our thought process and reimagine how […]
The road to value-based care is evolving as technology advances. An important tool for this journey is artificial intelligence and machine learning.
In the newest episode of the pharmaphorum podcast, editor in chief Jonah Comstock speaks with Mohammed Issa, vice president of commercial at US Janssen Neuroscience. […]
Some of the challenges patient advocacy organizations face include engaging diverse, hard-to-reach communities, reaching patients at the point of diagnosis, and providing meaningful resources, value […]
“The Health Equity and Accountability Act will reduce racial and ethnic health inequities, address the maternal mortality crisis, strengthen health data collection & research, expand […]
To follow in the footsteps of the European Renaissance, healthcare leaders and clinicians need to drive the creation of a revitalized delivery model that works […]
While many healthcare companies have used artificial intelligence for some time now for features like machine learning interpretability required by the healthcare industry for compliance […]
The IBC Foundation Institute for Health Equity’s initial focus areas will include digital health, cultural competence in medicine and maternal health. The money committed for […]
The health crisis in Black communities isn’t solely due to lack of access to care. Much of it also stems from well-documented racial disparities and […]
What You Should Know: – Podimetrics raises $45M to help at-risk providers and health plans prevent diabetic amputations in high-risk patients. – With this latest […]
What You Should Know: – Cricket Health is announcing today that it will merge with Fresenius Health Partners (the value-based care arm of Fresenius), and […]
What You Should Know: – Today Teladoc Health announced a first-of-its-kind Virtual Care Transformation Model for employers. – The model offers a comprehensive roadmap to move virtual care […]
As we work to engage underserved communities in proactive, value-based medical treatment, we need to find ways to provide more granular data that accurately and […]
The ViVE conference last week was a refreshing collection of discussions exploring how much progress has been made in healthcare transformation and the enormous amount […]
A new study by GlobalData looked at brand oral antidiabetic drugs (OADs) and found that sharing negotiated rebates with patients in commercial health plans at […]
As we embrace breakthroughs in digital health, let’s not cut, paste and proliferate the health equity issues of the offline world. We can only claim […]
Gil Addo, CEO and co-founder of RubiconMD, is taking part in a discussion on value-based care and access to healthcare in rural communities at the […]
Andrew Pucher, CEO of Dascena, Inc. One of the many acute challenges during the pandemic has been the departure of approximately 18% of the U.S. […]
The study found that Black patients were labeled “nonadherent” or “noncompliant” more often than their white counterparts and their pain undertreated. Such unfair terminology is […]
Penn Medicine CEO Kevin Mahoney will be part of a panel discussion on health equity at the MedCity INVEST conference March 28-30 at the Ritz […]
Genius Intelligent Endoscopy Module What You Should Know: – Medtronic and AWS, today announced a partnership to provide underserved communities with artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted colonoscopy […]
Jen Goldsmith, President Tendo Systems Healthcare data is increasing at an exponential rate. Approximately one-third of the world’s data volume is being generated by the […]
What You Should Know: – NourishedRx, a digital health company raises $6M in seed funding led by S2G Ventures with additional investors Route 66 Ventures, […]
John Sargent | Founding Partner, BroadReach Group When I graduated from medical school and took the Hippocratic Oath, I vowed to not just treat the […]
What You Should Know: – CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) announced a collaboration with Uber Health, Uber’s healthcare arm, to provide free transportation through a new […]
By GEORGE HALVORSON Former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson has written on THCB on and off over the years, most notably with his proposal for Medicare Advantage for […]
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is leveraging data and value-based contracts to reduce disparities it has observed and publicly revealed within its own patient […]
Boston Consulting Group published a new report that identifies five challenges facing healthcare in the upcoming 3 to 5 years as a result of the […]
If you can achieve the right mix of high-tech, high-touch options, you’ve hit the sweet spot for improving equity and accessibility, patient engagement, health outcomes, […]
The CEO of Surescripts believes we are living in an unpredictable world coupled with an explosion of innovation that aims to solve challenges like the […]
The Biden administration has launched a fact-finding mission to try to find ways to deploy digital health technologies effectively in community settings, in order to […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) is already prompting leaders to consider ethical responsibilities and dilemmas of integrating AI more heavily into care, posing questions around […]
There are many lessons to be learned from the Covid-19 pandemic, but perhaps the biggest is the need for proactive, long-term, and sustained investments in […]
What You Should Know: – Today, UC Davis Health launched a Cloud Innovation Center (CIC), powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), making the renowned academic […]
Vice President, Kamala Harris What You Should Know: VP Kamala Harris unveils a $1.5B investment in national health service corps and nurse corps will expand […]
Medicines can be critical to treating, managing, and sometimes curing illnesses, thereby offering an effective tool to improve health outcomes and reduce health disparities. However, […]
Hear from industry executives and leaders sharing their insights on this topic at INVEST Pop Health, a virtual and free conference, in collaboration with New […]
Medicare and Medicaid plans that invest in effectively addressing these five health equity issues can create a win-win situation that both improves member satisfaction and […]
Funding to keep hospitals solvent through the current crisis must continue unabated. At the same time, though, without the proposed investment in broadband infrastructure, rural […]
There are about 17 million people eligible for coverage through Medicaid or the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, and one of CMS’ priorities is to make […]
Industry executives will share their insights at the INVEST Pop Health conference, held in collaboration with New Orleans Business Alliance, scheduled for November 15-16.
What You Should Know: – Fitbit, today announced it has awarded six researchers more than a total of $300,000 in Fitbit devices and services to […]
Jennifer Jones-McMeans, Ph.D., Divisional VP of Global Clinical Affairs at Abbott’s Vascular Business I have dedicated my career to clinical research and making strides to […]
If all insurers adopt a consumer-first mentality, health care—a basic human need and right—can be affordable and accessible to everyone. If that sounds like a […]
What You Should Know: – Wolters Kluwer, Health today announced the launch of Best Care Everywhere, a mission-driven movement to build and strengthen health equity […]
MedCity News is once again partnering with the New Orleans Business Alliance to host the executive summit INVEST Pop Health Virtual.
Our industry has committed itself to making our workplaces trusting places to have complex, and sometimes difficult, conversations about diversity and inclusion.
It will take a combination of legislation to protect patient data privacy by governing communication between apps and the power of innovation and the free […]
New healthcare marketplace policies seek to make the ACA more equitable by investing in low-income and underinsured communities, changing the rules in ways that upset […]
Reaching out to and connecting with communities of color is a moral imperative. It’s a business imperative. For the healthcare system, it is no longer […]
CMS has recently proposed essential and timely reimbursement changes to close the racial discrepancy gap around the mandatory payment model for kidney disease
Sepsis is the body’s extreme response to an infection. It is a life-threatening medical emergency. Sepsis happens when an infection you already have triggers a […]
By KIM BELLARD In a week where we’ve seen the bungled Afghan withdrawal, had Texas show us its contempt for all sorts of rights, watched […]
What You Should Know: – The American Medical Association (AMA) today announced the creation of an external advisory group, the Equity and Innovation Advisory Group […]
What You Should Know: – Cerner today announced a new solution, Cerner Determinants of Health, designed to help providers address healthcare inequities. – Cerner Determinants of Health […]
America’s biopharmaceutical industry says it is “ready to do its part” in building a stronger, more resilient, affordable, and equitable health care system for all. […]
America’s biopharmaceutical industry says it is “ready to do its part” in building a stronger, more resilient, affordable, and equitable health care system for all. […]
What You Should Know: – Today, State Farm announced that it is elevating care for LGBTQ+ employees through a new partnership with Included Health. As a free […]
Targeted therapies for certain types of cancer and rare disease offer new hope for these patient populations. But how can we ensure that these treatments […]
As part of PhRMA’s continuing commitment to build a more just and equitable health care system, we recently awarded $75,000 through our Collaborative Actions to […]
The INVEST Precision Medicine conference cast a spotlight on the role of children’s hospitals, biopharma companies, diagnostic companies and startups in biopharma innovation. The video […]
On June 22, during The Atlantic’s Health Equity Summit, PhRMA hosted a conversation on clinical trial diversity. PhRMA Chief Operating Officer Lori Reilly and Genentech […]
We are in a new era of medicine where groundbreaking biopharmaceutical research and development is transforming medicine, but these innovations are meaningless if they don’t […]
We are in a new era of medicine where groundbreaking biopharmaceutical research and development is transforming medicine, but these innovations are meaningless if they don’t […]
As an industry, we should be proud of all that we have accomplished in making precision medicine a reality, whether it has been through advances […]
This week, 500+ health care and community members from over 150 organizations came together at PhRMA’s first stakeholder workshop focused on improving diversity in clinical […]
Often overshadowed by its larger, more affluent neighbors to the west, Imperial County had few testing and vaccination resources early on. Now, flush with vaccines, groups […]
How structural racism and implicit bias impact America’s babies, even prior to birth By ELLIE STANG Becoming a new mother in America is more dangerous […]
As the nation continues to reckon with disparities in health, we have a real opportunity to remove barriers to proper kidney care.
The nation’s largest public health system will stop using clinical assessments for kidney function and vaginal delivery after C-sections that use race-based calculations for determining […]
Covid has pushed state health agencies to use Medicaid in ways that would never have been imagined before. With one in five Americans saying they […]
This year, more than 5 million Americans will be diagnosed with Heart Valve Disease. All […]
Conversations and healthy debate about issues facing our industry and the health care system are critical to addressing some of today’s challenges and opportunities. The […]
With artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms are becoming more in vogue in different aspects of healthcare, our panel discusses how can we ensure that […]
Covid-19 has demonstrated the grave need for us to invest in chronic disease prevention and support by building stronger, deeper relationships with patients and families, […]
Of 26 health systems surveyed by MedCity News, nearly half used automated tools to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic, but none of them were regulated. […]
President Joe Biden has submitted his discretionary budget for 2022 to Congress. Among its healthcare provisions are funding requests for the CDC, mental health and […]
There should be a discussion about how to address the disproportionate impact Covid-19 has had on Black communities.
As part of the biopharmaceutical industry’s efforts to improve health outcomes for patients in underserved communities, PhRMA member companies are identifying ways to improve clinical […]
If we don’t prioritize solutions now, the healthcare digital divide may present more widespread national and international challenges.
A group of healthcare stakeholders in Oregon signed a compact that aims to spread advanced value-based payment models across the state. Though it is not […]
Areas that have been hit hardest by the Covid-19 pandemic are falling short when it comes to vaccine access. Community leaders are pushing to bring […]
To reduce the systemic health inequities that have put so many individuals at higher risk of getting sick and dying from Covid-19, healthcare organizations must […]
While telehealth use soared last year, the biggest increases were among adults living in metropolitan areas with low poverty levels, according to research published in […]
MedCity News has assembled compelling speakers to address the Covid-prompted rapid transformation of healthcare at this year’s virtual INVEST conference, April 19-23.
Particularly at the point of care, we have the means and resources to directly inform, educate and offer service to those who have been marginalized […]
Our industry has committed itself to making our workplaces trusting places to have complex, and sometimes difficult, conversations about diversity and inclusion.
Conversations and healthy debate about issues facing our industry and the health care system are critical to addressing some of today’s challenges and opportunities. The […]
Today, PhRMA released a new report prepared by TEConomy Partners, LLC that provides insights into the efforts of biopharmaceutical companies to advance diversity & inclusion […]
This year our industry has been working around the clock to combat the COVID-19 virus, including developing effective therapeutics to treat COVID-19 and vaccines to […]
Systemic racism is as real as any disease, and our industry is not immune. This summer, in the wake of a national outcry for racial […]
Conversations and healthy debate about issues facing our industry and the health care system are critical to addressing some of today’s challenges and opportunities. The […]
Yesterday, PhRMA published first ever industry-wide principles on clinical trial diversity, a new chapter in the already existing “Principles on Conduct of Clinical Trials & […]
Even though Covid-19 is distinct from any health crisis the country has previously faced, assessing U.S. public health strategies during past crises can provide insight […]
Critics have faulted some technologies for potentially reinforcing racial inequality. But a Deloitte exec painted a more optimistic picture at the HLTH conference.
Conversations and healthy debate about issues facing our industry and the health care system are critical to addressing some of today’s challenges and opportunities. Today, […]
Conversations and healthy debate about issues facing our industry and the health care system are critical to addressing some of today’s challenges and opportunities. The […]
In rearchitecting the system by training every care provider in every specialty, and enable lower-cost providers and communities, we will provide a new model of […]
Conversations and healthy debate about issues facing our industry and the health care system are critical to addressing some of today’s challenges and opportunities. The […]
This month, PhRMA published our commitment to racial equity and inclusion in the New York Times as well as in the Informer and the AfroAmerican, […]
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