social determinants of health
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Centene, Western Sky Community Care Donate $3M for Project Serving Unhoused
The donation will go to the One Albuquerque Fund for its project called “The Gateway.” This project will create a new medical center that will provide emergency overnight beds and other services for those experiencing homelessness.
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Consumer / Employer, Social Determinants
4 Ways Employers Can Advance Health Equity
Possible strategies for employers to reduce disparities include addressing social determinants of health, improving care navigation, leveraging virtual care and upgrading plan offerings, the authors of a Harvard Business Review report said.
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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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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
Digital Equity as a Social Determinant of Health – 3 Ways to Empower Patients
Social determinants of health reflect conditions in the environment where an individual is born, lives, […]
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Inside One Company’s Approach to Improving Medicaid Members’ Outcomes and Patient Experience
By Katie Adams
This summer, Adventist Health began a three-year partnership with Emcara Health, a primary care provider group that deploys community health workers into the places people live. Five months later, Emcara is saying that the program is seeing significant engagement and improving patients’ ability to keep up with their care plan.
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Building wealth and health: Inside Kaiser’s credit building program
By Katie Adams
Kaiser Permanente is a couple months into a first-of-its kind community program focused on helping Americans build their credit. Having no credit or bad credit is a major barrier to financial mobility, which is often a necessity to living a healthy life.
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Investing in social services will improve population health, execs from Kaiser & Mass General Brigham say
By Katie Adams
Health maintenance is in some ways overmedicalized in the U.S., according to executives at two major health systems. Treatments and procedures aren’t the only ways to support patients’ health — the leaders said that providers would be wise to invest more in social services to improve health outcomes.
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MedCity Influencers, Consumer / Employer
The divorce of care from health in healthcare: Reuniting American healthcare
The drive to “fix healthcare” is ingrained in our society. Politicians speak about it regularly, consumers struggle to understand it, and yet the “how” of fixing it is delivered with ambiguity and jargon. With increased urgency to improve healthcare, everyone is now laser focused on this topic. But, over time, the term “healthcare” itself has lost the part about care. So how do we fix it?
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Economic instability, loneliness, food insecurity block seniors from accessing care, survey finds
The survey is from Medicare Advantage company Alignment Healthcare. It focused on social determinants of health, which are proven to have more of an effect on overall health than clinical care.
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Health Tech, Hospitals, Startups, SYN
Penn Medicine’s venture fund makes 2 investments to address SDOH
By Katie Adams
The Penn Medicine-Wharton Fund for Health, Penn’s venture fund focused on social determinants of health, recently announced investments in its fifth and sixth companies. The fund invested in two Philadelphia-based startups, Fabric Health and Stimulus, bringing its total amount of invested capital to $1.35 million.
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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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MedCity Influencers, Artificial Intelligence
3 reasons you should use NLP to make sense of SDOH
By Marty Elisco
Obtaining an understanding of how specific SDOH factors affect individuals is extremely difficult because SDOH data is not methodically collected by clinicians. Natural Language Processing (NLP), a key discipline of AI that uses computers to understand the written word, can overcome this challenge,
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Adventist teams up with Emcara Health to deploy field care teams for Medi-Cal members
By Katie Adams
Adventist Health announced a three-year partnership with Emcara Health, a national value-based primary care provider group that meets patients where they are. The initiative will enhance the health system’s participation in the CalAIM program, which gives providers state funds to improve health outcomes among Medi-Cal enrollees by broadening care delivery models.
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Socially Determined is expanding its client base with a $26M boost
By Katie Adams
Socially Determined, a healthcare analytics startup focused on social determinants of health insights, closed a $26 million funding round on Tuesday. It will used the funds to expand its customer base, which comprises health plans, health systems and life sciences organizations.
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Medical bias experts: Stop using race as a predictor of health outcomes — use SDOH instead
By Katie Adams
Medical algorithms will continue to preserve the racial bias that has been historically baked into the U.S. healthcare system unless the medical field stops operationalizing race in its machine learning models, according to panelists at a recent panel hosted by the Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies. They argued algorithms should use social determinants of health as a predictor of health outcomes instead of race.
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Community, Consumer / Employer, Health Tech, Payers
Icario launches program to help Medicaid, Medicare plans improve broadband access for members
The program, called Digital Bridge, will leverage Icario’s expertise in personalized health communications to help plans ensure members are able to access resources available to get low-cost or free broadband.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech, Physicians
Overcome healthcare staffing shortages with a sound telepsychiatry strategy
Healthcare workers have borne the brunt of pandemic-related stressors. Mental health struggles and burnout have led many to leave the field at a critical time. But having access to virtual behavioral health, especially when in-person treatment options are limited, can help providers and patients cope.
Share/ Apr 18, 2022 at 3:40 PM
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Payer’s Place: Don Antonucci
The CEO of Providence Health Plan visits the Payer’s Place and addresses the future of payment models.