It’s time to transform how government health agencies, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and other health organizations create and deliver information to the approximately 20 million members of LGBTQ+ communities. Start with paying attention to their "chosen circles" or their trusted sources of information.
In looking ahead to 2024, the healthcare industry stands at the cusp of a transformative era of transparency. With impending regulatory changes and growing consumer empowerment, the landscape is poised for continued meaningful progress.
The TSX Venture Exchange has a strong history of helping early-stage health and life sciences companies raise patient capital for research and development.
With the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) releasing annual changes that impact all facets of the MA Star Ratings program, health systems and providers need to stay ahead of these changes and navigate them effectively by leveraging technology that can guide and optimize the complete patient journey.
Although problems in US healthcare abound, the most insidious challenges are often tightly coupled with the industry’s most appealing and instilled virtues — a highly selective and independent workforce, (b) an extremely low tolerance for risk, and (c) a high degree of professional oversight.
Recognizing and responding to this new emphasis on patient engagement isn’t easy. It requires providers to abandon a long-held model of healthcare with clinicians squarely at the center in favor of one in which the patients are in charge – and easily lost – if their wishes are not met.
Too often, executives look to data retrospectively to understand what has happened, rather than using data prescriptively to understand what is likely to happen and, in turn, how to best respond.
In an era of escalating healthcare costs and a growing preference for natural, holistic approaches to health, The Impact Brands emerges as a collective of diverse brands dedicated to supporting overall wellness through natural means.
UI affects 78 million women in the U.S. while fecal incontinence affects 12 million. Prevalence is rising. Age and obesity are associated with increased risk of UI, and both contribute to its increased incidence. Globally, hundreds of millions of women are affected.
At HLTH 2023, I had dozens of conversations with providers, digital health investors, startup CEOs and other players in the healthcare industry. When I got home, I compiled seven refreshingly honest takes I heard from them while at the conference.
Weaving companionship into health care as we would a blockbuster drug can help us circumvent expensive healthcare services like emergency department visits and hospitalizations.
CEO of Alignment Health joins the Payer's Place and details how the growth of Medicare Advantage will only help patients in the future.
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
As nursing remains the most trusted profession and NPs have long been accepted as primary care providers, nurses and NPs are uniquely qualified to guide patients through care interactions and bring the consistency associated with primary care to new places.
Even with my “VIP” access to the healthcare system as a physician who practiced in my community, I’m still struggling to coordinate my care as a cancer patient. I believe patients need more from their payers, providers, and digital health collaborators when it comes to care coordination and navigation.
While greater operational efficiency and cost control are essential to the success of VBC initiatives, so too is patient engagement. Care coordination and care management are far more difficult – and far less likely to achieve optimal outcomes – without patients who are fully engaged with their providers.
On any given day there may be more pressing issues to handle, and many companies believe “it won’t happen to us” – that is, until it does happen to you, and then it’s more important than ever to be prepared and confident with your crisis communications plan.
The ED boarding crisis is not one that’s going to be solved overnight. But left to continue unchecked, it will only engender wider discontent, decrease patient satisfaction, and ultimately lead to worse outcomes.