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Data-Driven Initiative Drives Down Disparities in Rural Health Care
Identifying the underlying factors that contribute to disparities in outcomes in vulnerable rural populations and developing strategies to address these issues remain constant challenges, but progress is being made. OSF Healthcare’s Health Equities Action Lab (HEAL) is employing a data-driven strategy to address breast cancer disparity outcomes among its Illinois patients, 65% of whom live in rural areas.
3 Firms Level the Playing Field in Health Equity Investing
A new AHA Center for Health Innovation report, “Leveling the Playing Field in Health Equity Investing,” explores the challenges these entrepreneurs face, how some venture capital (VC) funds are expanding opportunities for underrepresented startups and how the field can benefit.
Disruptors, Providers Invest in Health Equity
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has pledged to invest $40 million over the next three years in organizations working on improving health outcomes for underserved and underrepresented communities.
3 Ways Hospitals Are Tackling Maternal Health Innovation
The need to improve maternal and child health equity in America while reducing access disparities has become a national focus. As policymakers and provider organizations continue to seek ways to reverse these trends, hospitals and health systems are stepping up with innovative efforts.
Applying Equity to Funding Health Care Startups
Fund managers now target companies addressing health equity with solutions aimed at increasing access and improving outcomes for historically underserved and marginalized communities. Some are assessing the diversity of fund managers and allocating a percentage of funds to companies owned by Blacks, Hispanics, Asians and women committed to advancing health equity.
3 Data-Driven Keys to Address Health Equity
The Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas has been working with Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI), an independent collaborator, to use social needs data to identify women who are economically vulnerable and face challenges accessing care and may be at an elevated risk for breast cancer.
Disrupting Behavioral Health: Achieving Greater Access and Equity
Some provider organizations are developing powerful networks by forging broad-based community partnerships, integrating physical and behavioral health care and more to address barriers to access. During a recent AHA Transformation Talks video, leaders from WakeMed Health and Hospitals in Raleigh, N.C., shared strategies to overcome these disparities and increase patient access to appropriate caregivers at the right time and place.
Stakeholders Target Health Disparities During Pandemic
COVID-19 may be an invisible enemy that threatens all people, but evidence is mounting that it is disproportionately more lethal to racial and ethnic minorities and the poor as well as those with chronic conditions like diabetes. To address these disparities, hospitals and health systems and various stakeholders have been working together to find new ways to share data and develop solutions.
BCBSA Sets Out to Reduce Racial Disparities in Maternal Health by 50% in the Next Five Years
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) launched a national strategy on April 20 to address racial health disparities, starting with maternal health. This multiyear strategy is built on harnessing data analytics to measure and track disparities and taking programs that work for individual Blues plans and bringing them to scale.
Mass Events Make Vaccines Accessible
On a recent Saturday in South Philadelphia, Tyrique Glasgow volunteered to be a patient ambassador to spread the word about a one-day COVID-19 vaccination clinic being run by Penn Medicine and Mercy Catholic Medical Center in a local gym.