Health Equity
Health Equity
Staggering rate of health disparities drives need for industry-wide action on REaLS data
More than 40 leading health care organizations have signed on to the Health Equity Pledge, a new cross-sector effort to drive the industry to better collect, stratify, and review race, ethnicity, language, and sex data and incorporate it into quality metrics to advance health equit
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Health Equity
Data Dive: Poor data collection and review is preventing health equity progress
This infographic outlines the industry’s challenge with using data to reduce health disparities and how the Health Equity Pledge represents an opportunity to embed equity into quality improvement and interventions across the health care industry.
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Health Equity
SCAN Group and Health Plan CEO Sachin Jain on the art of the possible
Jain discusses the organization’s work to transform its culture, creating a highly inclusive workplace and more.
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Health Equity
Cross-industry coalition of health care organizations sign Health Equity Pledge to address disparities
Signatories of the Pledge, created by Health Evolution Forum Fellows, are committing to collect, stratify, and review data about race, ethnicity, language and sex across top metrics and share that information to inform best practices.
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Health Equity
Kaiser Permanente CEO Greg Adams on addressing health equity: ‘We can't rest on our laurels’
Greg A. Adams, CEO and Chairman of Kaiser Permanente and Mandy Cohen, MD, Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) talk about addressing systemic racism within a health care organization.
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Health Equity
How climate change poses a threat to health equity
Health care organizations face both obstacles and opportunities to change conditions for the better but that requires proper planning and action, according to experts in a range of fields from architecture to venture capital.
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Next-Generation IT
ONC’s Micky Tripathi on data’s role in addressing health inequality
Micky Tripathi, PhD, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and Greg Moore, MD, PhD, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Health recently spoke about data interoperability and its impact on health inequity.
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COVID
Vaccine mandate puts health care CEOs in a tough spot
For many leaders within the health care industry, particularly those in rural and underserved communities, there is an overwhelming concern that vaccine mandates will solve one problem while creating another.
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Health Equity
Why health care’s ‘hidden workforce’ is becoming a focal point for health plans
Recent changes from Medicare and the aging Boomer population have increased the focus on supporting unpaid caregivers, according to Shara Cohen, CEO of Carallel.
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Health Equity
Why one life sciences company is investing $100 million in a social impact fund
Edwards Lifesciences has unveiled an initiative that aims to advance racial equity in underserved communities. CFO Scott Ullem talked with us about why the company went this route.
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