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...
Pediatric patients who are Black are far more likely to die from sepsis than their White counterparts, even within a single hospital, a new analysis presented at the 2023 American Academy of Pediatrics...
Patient data access is at an all-time high, with new data from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT showing three in five patients being offered and accessing their digital health...
American patients are split as to whether they are comfortable with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in their healthcare experience, according to survey data from Propeller Insights on behalf of...
Boston Medical Center will be the first in the nation to offer a Clean Power Prescription, a new pilot program designed to address utilities as a social determinant of health while also considering...
A dementia diagnosis is going to cost you, with new data from the University of Michigan showing that individual personal wealth dropped after a diagnosis while out-of-pocket healthcare costs nearly...
Fewer than half of adults are aware of the common signs of breast cancer, save for having a lump, a clear signal that patient health literacy is faltering, researchers from The Ohio State University...
The social determinants of health have surely become cemented as a key consideration in the medical field. But it is essential for healthcare professionals to know and examine each determinant, ranging...
