The large-scale, multidisciplinary effort to improve the performance of pulse oximeters provides an example of the value of collaboration to solve problems and shows how industry partners can contribute in a significant way when they have a seat at the table. 

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Success requires both novel VBC models as well as moving care beyond the clinic walls to meet patients where they are.

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Real-world analysis can provide insights into how factors largely out of rural residents’ control impact health outcomes and access to medical care. 

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How targeted outreach and heightened engagement can help companies achieve better outcomes

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Meeting individuals where they are in their healthcare journey is essential for keeping lines of communication open and creating the right conditions for people to proactively seek out diabetes care.

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Obesity/overweight is a significant causal factor in chronic illness and cancer. Weight loss can help people with obesity/overweight avoid and/or manage chronic illness. GLP-1s cause weight loss. So, are GLP-1s the answer to America’s obesity and chronic illness crises? Not if we overlook a key problem at the heart of both challenges: lack of access to nutritious food in the land of plenty.

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The future of American healthcare hinges on the continued support and elevation of independent primary care—a cornerstone that not only enhances healthcare quality and cost controls but also ensures a healthier and more equitable future for all.

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Without taking specific steps to improve trial diversity, advances in inclusive treatments will continue at a snail’s pace.

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When striving for health equity, organizations need to adopt new methods and a new mindset in order to steer clear of using SDoH as a buzzword, and instead hit the mark of health equity results.

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To succeed in ACO Reach, groups need to accurately identify the social determinants of health (SDoH) barriers affecting their patient population and determine which barriers could be addressed effectively. Some technology can accurately note specific SDoH risk factors facing a given patient and offer targeted intervention recommendations based on that patient’s unique SDoH risk factors.

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Automation can be a powerful tool to bring together all the pieces needed to provide optimal care that can be scattered across various systems and apps. Whether it’s to exchange patient data quickly and easily, identify communities in need of programs to address food inequity, or reduce no-shows by sending automatic reminders, using the right technology is an essential tool for achieving better patient care.

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At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.

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As a physician I have witnessed the dramatic impact social determinants of health (SDOH) can have on the mental health of older patients. Fortunately, there are steps every practice can take to proactively address them.

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The health system will enter a new reality with the public health emergency lifted After several renewals, most expect the Covid-19 public health emergency (PHE) to be lifted in 2023, which has huge implications for health plans and members. Medicaid/CHIP enrollment has grown by 18.2 million since the onset of the pandemic in February 2020. […]

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Among the takeaways from HLTH 2022 were the impact of consolidation on clinicians, behavioral health tools to help consumers manage stress and anxiety more productively, and how health tech and medtech companies are supporting remote patient monitoring and testing.

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Cultural, racial and socioeconomic barriers play a role in barriers to access, from cultural hesitancy around seeking care to distrust of healthcare institutions to the stigmatizing of Medicaid beneficiaries. As a result, engaging these populations is highly complex, highly nuanced work.

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A better coronary artery stent cannot help a patient who cannot afford it, does not know they need it, doesn’t have a doctor who can make a diagnosis and identify that need. To help these patients, we urgently need to look at health equity.

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With proactive outreach by highly trained community health navigators guided by data and leveraging easy-to-use technology, we could get ahead of an individual’s needs, design and execute a care plan, and – hopefully – keep them out of the hospital.

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More health care providers are seeing patients on an outpatient basis, but simply getting to a doctor visit can be a formidable obstacle for those managing physical and developmental disabilities.

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The pandemic changed ideas and helped create new solutions to improve how and where patients access care whether it be through a smartphone-based transportation app with healthy meal delivery or remote patient monitoring.

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Despite all the impassioned calls to action and carefully-considered strategies — and the undeniable conviction behind both — the same question kept lingering in the back of my mind: “Haven’t I heard this before?” Still, I remain hopeful.

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MedCity News is once again partnering with the New Orleans Business Alliance to host the executive summit INVEST Pop Health Virtual.

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SDoH is just one of the topics at the MedCity INVEST Digital Health conference, a virtual event scheduled for September 20-23, in collaboration with Medical Alley.

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Covid-19 has demonstrated the grave need for us to invest in chronic disease prevention and support by building stronger, deeper relationships with patients and families, and by focusing more on the environmental, social, and psychological factors that lead to chronic disease and impact long-term disease management.

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As a country, we must do a better job supporting people and communities throughout their health journey because communities with greater access to information and increased levels of health literacy will ensure better health outcomes.

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There should be a discussion about how to address the disproportionate impact Covid-19 has had on Black communities. 

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To reduce the systemic health inequities that have put so many individuals at higher risk of getting sick and dying from Covid-19, healthcare organizations must leverage advanced technologies such as NLP to identify SDoH and other critical information from unstructured notes.

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Paying close attention to social determinants of health, like ability to drive or proximity to a grocery store, can also help predict who is at highest risk of being food insecure which, in turn, can help a plan know which resources to offer to those members.

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The healthcare startups targeting chronic conditions and population health presenting at INVEST Pop Health November 16-18 span prescription drug delivery to addressing social isolation.

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With the annual INVEST Population Health virtual conference coming up November 16-18, here’s a look at our collaboration partner New Orleans Business Alliance. It plays a vital role in helping to stimulate the local economy by supporting the development and advancement of the healthcare and biotech infrastructure.

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