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Health Equity
How health care organizations can work to improve LGBTQ+ care
Health care organizations need to do a better job in creating a welcoming, inclusive environment for LGBTQ+ patients. Experts say they can do so through employee education, improving sexual orientation and gender identity data collection and getting buy in across the C-Suite.
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Health System Resilience
Why data needs to drive the transition to value-based care
Executives who ‘own’ and leverage data can better understand cost centers, engage providers, drive patients to high-value care and address systemic inequities.
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M&A
Health care M&A report: The deals are coming fast and furious
Reviewing some of the major mergers and acquisitions that occurred from March to June, in general the spring months saw numerous high-value deals across the provider, life sciences and health tech sectors.
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Affordability
In a competitive digital health landscape, it’s hard to stand out
With so much activity in the sector, how can innovators distinguish themselves? Among payers and providers, considerations often center on how the solution meets a strategic need, if it can generate ROI, how it differs from others in the marketplace and if it’s easy to integrate.
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Policy
Updated: Supreme Court upholds Affordable Care Act
The Supreme Court has upheld the Affordable Care Act by 7-2 margin. Back when the case was being decided, Oscar Health and Centene chief executives were confident it would survive and continued to plan ahead in efforts to expand ACA marketplace plans.
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Leadership
Health care execs on the move: Former government officials find new landing spots
In this month’s edition, we spotlight recent movements by government officials, including former HHS Secretary Alex Azar and former FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn, MD.
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COVID
Data dive: How employers are encouraging the workforce to receive COVID-19 vaccines
While some hospitals are mandating that employees become vaccinated, few executives across industries are enacting such policies. Instead, they are enabling vaccine uptake with scheduling flexibility, financial incentives, and targeted communications — all tactics that health care executives might consider whether they require vaccination or not.
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Health Equity
CityMD founder Richard Park on improving care for Asian Americans in NYC
With his latest venture, Rendr, the entrepreneur is working to apply the same self-advocacy, scalability and standardization concepts that worked well to improve care for Asian American populations.
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Innovations in Care
Clinical research 2.0: An interview with Verily Life Sciences’ Amy Abernethy
Abernethy, the new President of Verily’s Clinical Research Platforms, discusses the need for new clinical trial designs as well as the unbiased data, more sophisticated infrastructure and raw compute power to support them.
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Health Equity
Less talk, more action: Health care has a long way to go post George Floyd
A year after the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent public calls for societal change, health care leaders still have considerable work ahead to improve equity. That starts by fulfilling commitments made in 2020, then deciding on what needs to be done next and delivering against those promises as well.
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COVID-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.
