Racial and ethnic minorities have unequal access to healthcare and are more likely to experience health disparities. Collecting accurate and meaningful race, ethnicity and language (REaL) information is an ongoing challenge in healthcare –…
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While healthcare providers are certainly excited about generative AI and its potential to alleviate clinical and operational inefficiencies in the field, they are also carefully considering how to mitigate risk associated with the use…
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By Sara Heath
October 23, 2023 – Pediatric patients who are Black are far more likely to die from sepsis than their White counterparts, even within a single hospital, a new analysis presented at the 2023…
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By Sara Heath
October 06, 2023 – A new health equity accreditation from URAC is set to help healthcare organizations assess and guide their efforts to address health disparities, the accreditation body said in a recent…
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North East London Integrated Care System (ICS) has deployed healthcare communications app CardMedic to its maternity care service users to help tackle maternal health disparities.The rollout forms part of North East London ICS’s response…
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By Sara Heath
October 03, 2023 – A third of the 1.5 million Medicaid enrollees with opioid use disorder in 2021 did not receive medication to treat opioid use disorder (MOUD), with searing racial health disparities…
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What You Should Know:
Improving Accessibility to Healthcare Via Telemedicine
“We launched the advisory group in 2021 to address the unique ways telehealth could be used to eliminate health disparities in the U.S. We are confident…
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The American Telemedicine Association has introduced a comprehensive toolkit to advance community telehealth services and tackle health disparities. The toolkit offers measures, calculators, and tools to evaluate digital infrastructure and estimate costs for telehealth-based…
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The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) issued a report on Thursday that laid out recommendations to improve patient safety across the nation. Some of these included creating federal leadership positions…
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Mae Health has partnered with Molina Healthcare of Virginia to offer tailored support to Black expectant mothers. This collaboration grants Molina’s Virginia-based Medicare and healthcare marketplace members access to culturally adept maternal health experts….
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