Chronic Disease Management

Top Patient Engagement Challenges Affecting Rural Healthcare

February 29, 2024 - In a challenging industry landscape like medicine, the topic of rural healthcare stands out for its complexity. Those complexities can affect patient engagement efforts, in particular, and can stymie provider efforts to support care management. What’s resulted is a rural-urban divide in healthcare outcomes. Indeed, a July 2023 analysis from The Commonwealth Fund found that the...


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Is SNAP the Solution to Healthcare’s Medication Adherence Woes?

by Sara Heath

Connecting patients experiencing food insecurity with SNAP benefits could improve medication adherence by as much as nearly 14 percent, according to new data from The Ohio State University. The study,...

Preventable Hospitalizations More Common for Black Patients

by Sara Heath

Black Medicaid enrollees are more likely to experience a preventable hospitalization than their White counterparts, according to a new report, a trend that researchers at the Urban Institute said...

Top Patient Engagement Tech for Remote Chronic Disease Management

by Sara Heath

Care management has gone digital, with remote chronic disease management, in particular, becoming a more common modality. Of course, there is still always a time and a place for in-person care, but the days of fully analog care management...

AI-Based Voice Assistants Poised to Support Chronic Disease Management

by Sara Heath

Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) could be the key to unlocking better chronic disease management, with new data in JAMA Network Open showing that a voice assistant tool improved glycemic...

As Maternal & Infant Health Falter, Advocacy Is Key to Progress

by Sara Heath

As it continues to pave the road to progress with data, March of Dimes is using its advocacy prowess to also call for policy and medical device solutions to the nation’s growing maternal and infant health crisis. Paired with a new...

Top Strategies for Improving Medication Adherence Rates

by Sara Heath

Treating an acute or chronic illness doesn’t end with prescribing a drug or a treatment. Rather, achieving ideal clinical outcomes requires patients to actually take the prescription and strong medication adherence. Medication...

Instacart Health Partnership Focuses on Food Insecurity in Chicago

by Sara Heath

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...

Using Patient Teach-Back to Improve Patient Education

by Sara Heath

Patient education and health literacy strategies are incomplete without patient teach-back, a practice many providers use to make sure their patients understand health information. As the healthcare industry confronts a growing population...

Produce Prescription Programs Boost Diet, Health Outcomes

by Sara Heath

Shoppers can now cross “better health outcomes” off their grocery lists, as more data continues to show the efficacy of produce prescription programs. In a new study, researchers from...

Postpartum Care Visits Underdeliver on Heart Health Counseling

by Sarai Rodriguez

Many new mothers are being left vulnerable to poor heart health. A Northwestern Medicine study revealed that despite being at risk for heart disease, a mere 60 percent of new mothers are receiving...

Top Considerations for Care Coordination in Chronic Disease Management

by Sara Heath

Care coordination is something of a holy grail in chronic disease management. Without it, patients can’t connect the various—and often disparate—aspects of their care and achieve better outcomes. Care coordination...

What Do Patients Want in Chronic Disease Management Tools?

by Sara Heath

In the world of chronic disease management tools, not all technologies are created equal. According to a new Regenstrief Institute study, care management apps that offer patient data access and data...

How One Medical Delivers Culturally Competent Chronic Disease Management

by Sara Heath

When Cy Villaflores heard she was at high risk for developing diabetes, a signal from her family health history, she wasn’t quite sure what she should do next. Sure, her doctors all advised weight loss, but there wasn’t any...

Which Social Determinants of Health Lead to Low Care Quality?

by Sara Heath

The different social determinants of health have different impacts on healthcare quality, utilization, and outcomes, with new Humana data showing that some SDOH are more closely related to poor care...

Healthcare Costs, Patient Care Access Challenges Folks with Long COVID

by Sara Heath

The one in five adults who have experienced long COVID also have trouble with other aspects of healthcare, with new Urban Institute findings indicating issues with healthcare costs and patient care...

Uncontrolled Blood Pressure Rates in Black Women Reveal Health Disparities

by Sarai Rodriguez

Black women of childbearing age face a twofold risk of uncontrolled high blood pressure compared to their white counterparts, which not only fuels racial health disparities but also heightens the risk...

How Community Health Workers Support Chronic Disease Management

by Sara Heath

A new study from the NYU Grossman School of Medicine shows how community health workers helped patients achieve optimal blood pressure control, underscoring the role these non-clinical workers play in...

Racial Disparities Apparent in Benefits to Walkability, Neighborhood SDOH

by Sara Heath

Neighborhood walkability has the potential to boost physical activity and improve BMI, two key factors for addressing obesity. But neighborhood conditions like safety, another key element of...

Medication Adherence Rates Sink, Renew Calls for Cost and Policy Change

by Sara Heath

Medication adherence remains a problem for chronic disease management, with new data in JAMA Network Open showing that around one in five adults with diabetes did not maintain use of glucose-lowering...