Health Equity
Health System Resilience
Real reasons to invest in empathy for health care leadership and the workforce
Training for empathy can improve patient experience and outcomes, enhance the provider experience and reduce burnout. And it will be a competitive advantage in a post-pandemic world.
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Health System Resilience
Post COVID, Ascension is all in on ASCs, virtual care and agile working environments
Health Evolution talked with Eduardo Conrado, chief strategy and innovation officer at Ascension, the large $25 billion, Catholic health system based in the Midwest, about shifting its strategic priorities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Health Equity
To tackle inequity, health care leaders must understand the populations they are serving
Alice Hm Chen, CMO of Covered California, spoke with Health Evolution about the racism and inequities facing the Asian American community and what CEOs can do to improve health disparities in their communities.
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Health Equity
Data Dive: Transportation challenges plague dual-eligible Medicare and Medicaid patients
Nearly half of dual-eligible Medicare and Medicaid patients are putting off appointments, largely because of transportation challenges, a new survey found.
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Medical Breakthroughs
Can community health workers and empathy improve inequity and reduce disparities?
In part two of our series on the future of the health care workforce, we examine the potential role that community health workers—and the valuable skill of empathy—can play in reducing health inequities, both during COVID and beyond.
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COVID
Why COVID-19 vaccine deployment has struggled
Only 70 percent of vaccines that have been distributed have been administered. That’s not good enough. Here are seven reasons why vaccine deployment has been less than ideal and the U.S. is well behind its original goal.
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Health Equity
Lyft Healthcare exec shares strategy on COVID-19 vaccine access campaign
Lyft Healthcare vice president, Megan Callahan spoke with Health Evolution about a bold campaign to provide 60 million rides to COVID-19 vaccination appointments.
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Health Equity
BCBS of Illinois exec on investing $100 million to reduce disparities of care
Chief Medical Officer Derek Robinson, MD, discusses what the COVID-19 pandemic exposed about racial disparities and why the payer launched two major health equity initiatives.
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Next-Generation IT
Lesser-known telehealth lessons and opportunities of 2020: An interview with Amwell’s Danielle Russella
Amwell’s President of Strategic Partnerships discusses the doors that this year’s increased telehealth usage opened, unique use cases that have emerged during the pandemic, and key trends to expect in 2021 and the future.
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Leadership
Biden’s HHS secretary pick Xavier Becerra holds promise to reduce care disparities
Becerra’s nomination, along with Biden’s choices for other prominent federal roles, signals what could become a team highly-focused on addressing inequities to improve the health care system for underserved or vulnerable populations.
Read MoreCOVID-19 Innovation Guide
The first report in a three-part series on COVID-19 innovation lessons learned by Providence, the pandemic's original ground zero in the U.S. Read the report.
