Health Equity

Fifty-seven percent of race-related patient safety incidents are due to patients making inappropriate racial comments or engaging in racist behavior toward their provider, according to an analysis by ECRI.

Health equity means providing all people with patient-centered care that's built on trust, empathy and understanding. Fulfilling that vision, however, is often difficult. 

Healthcare technology platform PointClickCare Technologies is partnering with referral management platform Findhelp to integrate social determinants of health information into a platform available for clinicians and social workers.

Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, and his family foundation have donated $50 million to Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital. 

The Atlanta City Council has tabled a proposal to turn Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center into an equity center upon its Nov. 1 closure, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Oct. 12.

Here are three health equity investments over $10 million that Becker's has covered since Aug. 30:

TruLite Health is rolling out health equity software as a service platform Truity. 

Today, TruLite Health announced the launch of Truity™, the industry’s first comprehensive health equity platform.

The Humana Foundation, the philanthropic arm of health insurance company Humana, invested $13 million to advance health equity.

Streamlining patient flow would not only improve patient care and reduce costs, but is also focal to achieving health equity, wrote Eugene Litvak, PhD, Mark Smith, MD, and Harvey FiIneberg, MD, PhD, for The Hill Oct. 7.