Improving Virtual Care Services to Address Health Equity
Dr. Michael Ross, system chief medical information officer at Maine-based Northern Light Health, led a session about his health system’s experiences with “tightly integrating” telehealth to improve…
ORLANDO – At HIMSS24, Georgia Health Information Network discussed its Georgia Unity platform, a health information exchange network developed with local community partners, created due to the need to understand total health in Georgia’s…
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MedCity News Senior Reporter Katie Adams with Gary Lynch, global practice lead and CTO for Insurance and Life Science with Verizon Business.
At the ViVE event in Los Angeles, February 25-28, health tech executives shared…
By Sara Heath
February 28, 2024 – Although nearly a third of the American public thinks racism in medicine is a major problem, that proportion is actually much lower than the public perception of other sectors,…
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Launched to help address health equity challenges facing Black cardiology patients, ChristianaCare said its digital medication adherence platform, developed with Story Health, has delivered significant improvements in outcomes for patients with hypertension and heart…
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AI algorithms have the potential to vastly improve health monitoring for older adults. From detecting early warning signs of chronic disease, to using AI-enabled telemedicine to expand healthcare access in rural communities, to informing…
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Mayo Clinic recently announced a collaboration with TruLite Health, a Phoenix-based startup focused on mitigating providers’ clinical bias.
Three physicians, all of whom specialize in community internal medicine at Mayo Clinic Arizona, are helping develop…
While most would agree that everyone should have the same opportunity to prevent, detect, treat and survive cancer, unfortunately for many, this is not the case. Billions of dollars are being invested into cancer…
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Accompany Health, a startup serving low-income patients with complex needs, launched Tuesday with $56 million in Series A funding.
The Bethesda, Maryland-based company offers primary and behavioral care for underserved patients. It also provides social…
With the push towards health equity and away from a fee-for-service model of healthcare, risk-bearing organizations have an opportunity to join the ACO REACH (Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health) program. In the program,…
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