Healthcare consumerism lingers near the top of the list of buzzwords medical professionals need to know. The concept, which recognizes the role patients play as purchasers and managers of their own...
Women who have experienced racism have a 38 percent higher risk of stroke than women who have not, according to a new JAMA Network Open study, giving further credence to the weathering hypothesis in...
A group of health IT academics is laying out the argument for closing the digital divide, saying that achieving what they termed as “techquity” in patient portal adoption is actually...
Hospitals and health systems nationwide still don’t have the patient-centered systems in place to meet the moment on healthcare consumerism, but it isn’t because they don’t...
Seven in 10 counties in the United States have insufficient maternal mental healthcare access, a problem that exacerbates maternal health outcomes, according to a new assessment from the Policy Center...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) have awarded this year’s round of Gold Health Center Quality Leader digital badges to...
Being enrolled in an accountable care organization (ACO) won’t do much to improve a patient’s mental healthcare access or symptom burden; in fact, ACO enrollment has proven to hamper access...
America’s hospitals are starting to rebound after a pandemic-imposed downturn in patient safety performance, particularly in terms of hospital-acquired infections, according to the latest fall...
A new study from researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth is calling into question the individual and structural forces...
Walmart Health has unveiled two new partnerships aimed and improving the patient experience, the first of which includes collaboration with Orlando Health set up to improve care coordination and...
The 988 helpline’s effectiveness is seriously stymied by limited public awareness of the service, prompting researchers to call for better public health communication and messaging about the...
The digital patient experience is becoming more important than ever, with new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) figures showing that more than half of patients use the internet to find...
Healthcare professionals need to determine what it’ll take for patients to trust the exchange of their social determinants of health (SDOH) data, including looking into improving patient...
It could be almost a decade before the United States medical industry sees any significant improvement in health equity, according to survey data from the Rise to Health Coalition, with many industry...
Having health insurance coverage isn’t enough to attenuate high healthcare costs and their impacts on patient access to care, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report.
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The impact of the Dobbs vs. Whole Women’s Health Supreme Court decision is starting to be felt nationwide, as new data from the Society for Family Planning shows that abortion access went down in...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is investing $3.7 billion to help with utility bills, particularly home energy costs, via the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program...
A new partnership between Instacart and Wellness West tailored for food insecurity will help forge deeper inroads into the healthcare space for the grocery store technology company.
In particular, the...
Homelessness remains a key social determinant of health, with researchers from the University of California, San Francisco, revealing that individuals who are homeless are 16 times more likely to...
If all hospitals performed the same as Healthgrades’ top-ranking specialty hospitals, the US healthcare industry could see serious improvements in patient safety measures, including avoided...
