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Year in Review: Value-Based Care and Alternative Payment Models

December 28, 2022aco

In the world of value-based care and alternative payment models, 2022 has seen a heightened focus on health equity. In March, Dora Hughes, M.D., M.P.H., chief medical officer at the CMS Innovation Center, said the Innovation Center’s 10-year anniversary was a good time to look both back and forward at how its models impact health…

Understanding Education as a Social Determinant of Health

December 27, 2022acoeducation, food insecurity, patient access, racial disparities, risk modeling, SDOH

Education is a critical social determinant of health, largely because of its outsized impact on income and therefore other SDOH. There’s some clear-cut evidence underscoring the impact education has on overall health and well-being. In 2021, researchers published in PNAS that folks with higher educational attainment tend to live longer. Adults with a bachelor’s degree are expected…

Atlantic Health dives deep on data to advance health equity

December 26, 2022aco

Leaders at Atlantic Medical Group, a multispecialty physician network that is part of Atlantic Health System, in New Jersey, couldn’t figure out why the response rate for a patient-experience survey was so low among Spanish-speaking patients. The survey was in Spanish, but the response rate was just 8%, less than half the rate from the…

Healthcare Access and Equity: Women’s Health and Technology Hold the Keys

December 26, 2022aco

While the quality of U.S. healthcare and patient outcomes has generally increased over time, access to care — and thus to positive patient outcomes — is not equitable to all people. Overall, one in 10 Americans don’t have health insurance, which is fallout of a system breaking under the weight of high costs and deepening…

The Impact of Food Insecurity in Value-Based Care

December 23, 2022aco

ood insecurity and low nutritional awareness contribute to multiple chronic health conditions in patients across the United States. Some diseases linked to food insecurity include hypertension (high blood pressure), diabetes, coronary heart failure, and kidney disease, just to name a few. Food insecurity is a persistent, growing issue, as many low-income urban and rural areas…

Expert: Work Toward Health Equity, Inclusion Isn’t Done Until ‘Every Patient Has Access to the Best Cancer Therapy Possible’

December 22, 2022aco

Pharmacy Times® interviewed Kamakshi Rao, PharmD, BCOP, FASHP, chair of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee at the Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association (HOPA) and director of the Academic Enterprises and Residency Programs at the University of North Carolina Medical Center in Chapel Hill, NC, and Eric Chow, PharmD, BCOP, MPH, vice chair of the DEI…

Health Equity Roundup 2022: Policy Moves Forward

December 22, 2022acohealth equity, SDOH

Health equity became an increasingly important topic this past year. There has been a significant increase in initiatives from legislators and policymakers, as well as increased funding toward historically underserved groups. We reported on Feb. 28 that “Washington has become the second state to begin to create Health Equity Zones to support communities in addressing…

FLASH INTERVIEW — InfoMC 2022

December 21, 2022acoNo Comments

 The care coordination and care management platform of InfoMC helps care coordinators and care managers to not only engage patients in their care plans, but also connect them with ease to community-based and other resources to address SDoH needs. InfoMC’s cloud-based healthcare management software uses a person-centered, integrated approach that promotes high-quality, efficient and…

2023 forecast: Providers embrace start of new requirements on health equity

December 21, 2022aco

For years, providers have been talking about tackling health equity gaps in healthcare. But in 2023 new requirements from the federal government mean it is now time for some to walk the walk. “This has been twenty years in the talking stage,” said Paul Shields, M.D., CEO and chief medical officer of the Great Lakes…

4 Ways to Prioritize Health Equity In Your Care-At-Home Program

December 21, 2022aco

The healthcare industry is in the middle of navigating two major trends: technology is moving into healthcare, and healthcare is moving into the home. As providers, payers, vendors, and industry newcomers scramble to figure out “who’s on first,” we all sense the possibility of this quantum leap moment for healthcare. Many of our collective conversations…

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