NEW EQUITY METRIC LAUNCHED TO ASSESS PLAN MEMBERS’ DIGITAL ACCESS, LITERACY

November 8, 2021Garrett SchmittNo Commentsdigital access, Digital Landscape, equity, equity assessment, health equity, health literacy, healthcare literacy, literacy, patient access, patient communication, Patient Engagement, SDOH, social determinants of health, Socially Determined

Socially Determined, the Washington, D.C.-based technology company that measures the impacts of the social determinants of health (SDOH), has developed Digital Landscape, a new metric for assessing digital equity as an SDOH component. Using Digital Landscape, organizations can assess equity “within a population or community and the impact it has on health outcomes and business performance.”…

Five Important Health Care Trends That Consumers Should Track

July 29, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsACO, ACOs, consumers, cost transparency, coverage, health care trends, health costs, health inequities, health literacy, healthcare, healthcare costs, healthcare trends, Informed Patient, patient health data, SDOH, value-based care, vbc

In the world of health care, change is never-ending. Politics, government regulation, scientific advancement, technology, and the economics and financing of health care foster shifts to reshape how care is delivered and how much it costs. Many of these shifts are completely invisible to us as health care consumers. But they also drive what is…

How to Remedy Low Health Literacy and Amplify SDOH Programs at Scale

May 28, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsCOVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, health literacy, SDOH

Earlier this month, the Biden administration announced it will commit $250 million in funding to improve COVID-19 vaccine health literacy in vulnerable and medically underserved communities. With the logistics of administering vaccines no longer an overwhelming question mark and an ample supply of doses available, vaccine hesitancy has quickly emerged as one of the biggest…

The Key to SDOH: Health literacy

April 16, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsCOVID-19, health literacy, relationship-based care model, SDOH

By all accounts, Covid-19 has amplified the discussion around critical health disparities and inequities that have plagued the United States and its most vulnerable patient populations for generations. The past year has exposed how disease does in fact discriminate, and that socioeconomic challenges exacerbate the symptoms of illness. As a result, the healthcare industry has…

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