Across the nation, fee-for-service is giving way to value-based care contracts. And as those scales tip, Buck Poropatich, the new head of healthcare for Lyft, thinks rideshare will be key to value-based care success.
This comes after...
As team-based care becomes more common in medical practice, healthcare organizations are considering how they invest in non-clinician personnel, like recruiting and hiring community health workers.
A community health worker is “a...
According to a JAMA Internal Medicine study, staff members’ implicit bias about minority groups was linked to variability in end-of-life care delivered to Black patients with dementia, limiting...
CVS Health has partnered with Uber Health, the rideshare company's healthcare arm, to provide individuals in underserved communities free transportation when seeking access to medical...
According to researchers from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, underserved populations were the most likely to have an overdue cervical cancer screening, underscoring social...
The Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) has issued a new resource guide to help pharmacists navigate certain social determinants of health that might crop up when a patient visits the...
Individuals with a higher level of education were found to have better cardiovascular health (CVH). Still, the benefits of education do not persist across non-White racial and ethnic groups, according...
Black women born in the US have a higher odds of preeclampsia than Black women who immigrated from other countries, according to new data from Johns Hopkins Medicine, indicating that other social...
Legacy Community Health announced Houston Methodist, a leading health system in Texas, donated $50 million to expand access to healthcare services by building community health centers for...
Limited English proficiency is linked with a lower rate of patient-reported cardiovascular disease, health disparities that researchers said in JAMA Network Open is either due to low patient education...
As the healthcare industry faces calls to address racism in medicine, the nation’s medical schools are answering, setting forward revamped plans for diversity, equity, and inclusion and health equity curricula.
That is, after all,...
According to an athenahealth study, data demonstrated that patients in low-income zip codes were less likely than patients in high-income zip codes to schedule an annual wellness visit indicating that...
According to an American Heart Association study, patients who live within socially vulnerable neighborhoods have a higher likelihood of high complications from COVID-19 infections, offering...
Virgin Pulse, a provider of health and wellbeing solutions, has acquired the consumer activation company Welltok to increase patient engagement and improve health outcomes for members.
The companies...
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine received a $10 million grant that will help fund a study to investigate how environmental and economical interventions impact racial...
Value-based care, the care delivery and reimbursement reform movement that emphasizes outcomes over volume of services rendered, could not be successful without strong and meaningful patient engagement.
Defined by the Centers for Medicare...
As the medical industry begins to appreciate the diversity of the patient populations it serves—and how that diversity influences care management and outcomes—clinicians now face an...
Despite coming to an end in the 1960s, institutionally racist policies like redlining still rears its ugly head, manifesting itself in poor health outcomes and Black maternal health disparities in...
A year after making its health equity pledge, Providence is excited about the work it’s done to reduce racial health disparities. Although far from complete, the organization is celebrating its...
Clocking in at around $150,000 in a single state annually, recidivism is a costly problem for the American taxpayer, and yet one of the most poignant examples of where concerted care coordination and...
