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During last week’s Primary Care Transformation Summit, Amy Nguyen-Howell, M.D., M.B.A., chief of the Office for Provider Advancement at Optum Health, and Nwando Olayiwola, M.D., M.P.H., chief health equity officer and senior vice president at Humana, detailed the data infrastructure they are building in their respective organizations to support health equity initiatives.
As Humana’s first chief health equity officer, Olayiwola said her job is to make sure that they find a way to integrate health equity concepts into all the work that they do on the payer and provider sides. She noted that the company’s CenterWell provider organization has over 250 primary care clinics across the nation, as well as home care and pharmacy services. “We’re now the largest provider of senior-focused primary care in the nation, so we are very much thinking about how we make sure that primary care has all the tools that it needs to be able to achieve health equity.”