By Sara Heath
August 08, 2023 – Only a fifth of the nearly 2.5 million adults with opioid use disorder received medication for the disease 2021, leaving millions without access to addiction treatment, according to new…
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By Mark Melchionna
July 18, 2023 – After receiving $54 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Scripps Research Translational Institute aimed to continue to improving precision medicine and limiting health disparities…
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By Hannah Nelson
July 14, 2023 – Healthix, a health information exchange (HIE) serving New York City and Long Island, has partnered with health IT vendor Unite Us to drive social determinants of health (SDOH) interoperability.
The…
By Sarai Rodriguez
June 27, 2023 – A new initiative from Stanford Medicine aims to reduce health disparities among LGBTQ people by collecting more information about gender identity and sexual orientation during patient intake.
The “We Ask…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
June 23, 2023 – The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has joined forces with Upstream to strengthen access to essential reproductive healthcare by expanding patient contraceptive access in underserved areas.
Over a…
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Cone Health and Guilford County launched North Carolina’s first behavioral health urgent care center, reducing hospital stays, emergency department visits, and health disparities. The Guilford County Behavioral Health Urgent Care Center offers comprehensive services,…
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By Shania Kennedy
June 19, 2023 – Researchers have shown that omitting race and ethnicity as predictors in colorectal cancer recurrence risk prediction models may be associated with racial and ethnic biases that contribute to health…
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By Mark Melchionna
June 13, 2023 – Pandemic-era flexibilities expanded access to telemental healthcare services, but a new RAND Corporation study, obtained via email, showed that racial health disparities still persisted.
Particularly, the study showed that counties…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
June 09, 2023 – Evara Health is among the recipients of a $65 million HHS funding initiative, supporting underserved communities in creating innovative approaches to reduce Black maternal health disparities.
Florida-based Evara Health secured…
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By Sara Heath
June 07, 2023 – Even the highest-performing hospitals see racial health disparities in adverse patient safety events, with a new report from The Leapfrog Group and Urban Institute showing that gaps persist across…
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