By Sara Heath April 11, 2023 – The one in five adults who have experienced long COVID also have trouble with other aspects of healthcare, with new Urban Institute findings indicating issues with healthcare costs…
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By Sara Heath April 10, 2023 – Social determinants of health like educational attainment, poverty, language barriers, and provider workforce shortages are linked to the impact redlining has on clinical outcomes, underscoring how institutional racism…
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By Sarai Rodriguez April 07, 2023 – NYU Langone is taking the next step towards realizing health equity by refining clinical algorithms to remove race-based adjustments and focusing on social determinants of health instead. This…
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By Sarai Rodriguez April 06, 2023 – Varied contraceptive access in the United States, driven by divergent state-level Medicaid coverage, has resulted in significant reproductive health disparities, according to a recent study by Oregon Health…
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By Sara Heath April 05, 2023 – Gender-affirming care offers a great use case for implementing patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs), but PROMs for gender-affirming care need a bit of a tune-up before that can fully…
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By Sarai Rodriguez March 31, 2023 – The American Heart Association (AHA) released an entrepreneurial training program to assist health equity innovators in tackling social determinants of health (SDOH) issues that impact urban and rural…
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By Sara Heath March 30, 2023 – A new bill in Georgia aims to improve patient-provider communication about medical errors and patient safety. The CANDOR (Communication and Optimal Resolution) Act, based on the CANDOR program…
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By Sara Heath March 29, 2023 – The patient portal might be too clunky or onerous to be useful in closing care gaps, with new research finding that patient portal messages didn’t do much to…
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By Sara Heath March 29, 2023 – Patients who face cost-sharing and high out-of-pocket healthcare costs for breast cancer screening might not access any applicable follow-up tests they need, according to research published in JAMA…
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By Sarai Rodriguez March 28, 2023 – Pregnant individuals with low incomes typically have higher rates of maternal and infant mortality compared to those with higher incomes. However, according to a study out of Michigan…
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