Health equity isn’t just another industry buzzword. As the medical industry works toward true health and well-being for all, health equity has emerged as a critical goal for payers, providers, and healthcare policymakers.
Still, the...
HHS has finalized the last piece of the puzzle to restore the government’s process for handling complaints of conscience and religious discrimination, which the agency said will improve patient...
A recent study from researchers out of Mount Sinai is providing data to support what many have argued in the past few years, that structural racism is linked to poorer health outcomes.
The study,...
NewYork-Presbyterian wants to do something about the nation’s maternal mental health crisis. In an effort to prepare pregnant people in their third trimesters for their new, child-filled lives, the healthcare organization is tapping...
Health equity will remain in the industry spotlight as healthcare and life sciences executives continue to eye it as a top priority for 2024, according to a new report from Deloitte.
The Deloitte...
More data is out demonstrating the role racism and discrimination play in healthcare, with the latest from KFF showing that Black, Hispanic, American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN), and Asian people are...
Primary care providers looking to increase their rates of social determinants of health screenings might consider having advanced practice providers administer them, among other factors, according to a...
The residents of Georgia are fully aware of the maternal health crisis affecting the state—and the rest of the United States—and are calling on policymakers to do something about it in a...
Racial discrimination is linked with increased hypertension risk, illustrating the concept of weathering in healthcare, and for Black women with college degrees or higher, it’s even worse,...
For many healthcare organizations, the patient portal has become the place where patients access the healthcare system and keep coming back. It’s a wraparound digital experience that meets the moment on healthcare consumerism, but if...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is cracking down on language access and patient rights to medical interpreters as a part of agency efforts to improve health equity.
The HHS Language...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Four in 10 people with disabilities report unfair treatment in healthcare settings, the workplace, and in accessing public benefits, according to Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Urban Institute data...
A new health equity accreditation from URAC is set to help healthcare organizations assess and guide their efforts to address health disparities, the accreditation body said in a recent press...
A new paper published in the latest issue of Health Affairs takes a look at the burgeoning role of health equity officer, highlighting where hospitals are getting it right with this role and where...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will now consider people with disabilities as a population with health disparities, which, among other things, with let the agency start conducting more research...
