health disparities
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4 Steps Needed to Improve Patient Safety On a National Level, Per PCAST
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) issued a report that laid out four recommendations to improve patient safety across the nation. Some of these included creating federal leadership positions focused on advancing patient safety and hastening research on systems of safe care.
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Aetna Better Health of Maryland Launches Maternal Health Pilot Program With Mae
Mae’s services will be a covered benefit for Aetna Better Health Medicaid members through a new pilot program. These services include access to a culturally-competent doula and an engagement platform that provides weekly check-ins and tools to support maternal health.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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BCBS Massachusetts Forms Value-based Contracts to Advance Health Equity
The contracts are with Steward Health Care Network, Beth Israel Lahey Health, Mass General Brigham and Boston Accountable Care Organization, which is part of Boston Medical Center. The healthcare organizations will be focused on reducing disparities in several areas, including high blood pressure and colorectal cancer screenings.
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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
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LGBTQ patients’ preventive health knowledge lags behind the general population, report says
LGBTQ Americans have a lack of understanding of the preventive health services they need, compared to the general population, a new report found. In order to create targeted messaging campaigns to increase preventive health knowledge among the LGBTQ community, the healthcare industry needs to include more LGBTQ patients in medical research to better understand the population’s health.
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Met with AWS funding, Oben Health seeks to treat hypertension in at-risk groups without medication or surgery
Oben Health, a San Francisco-based company developing a digital treatment platform to fight heart disease without medication or surgery, recently received funding from AWS’ accelerator for early-stage startups led by founders from underrepresented groups. The startup will use the money to scale its platform and help conduct a pilot program to better understand its model’s clinical validity.
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Mahmee CEO: We’re making progress in eliminating disparities in maternal care
Mahmee raised $9.2 million in Series A funding led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management. The startup’s CEO, Melissa Hanna, saw the raise as clear recognition of the progress Mahmee has made in tackling disparities in maternal care.
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MedCity Influencers, Consumer / Employer, Health Tech
Now is our chance to design digital health for equity: Here’s how we can do it
As we embrace breakthroughs in digital health, let’s not cut, paste and proliferate the health equity issues of the offline world. We can only claim success when we measure who’s engaging, who’s not and why.