Health Equity

President Joe Biden signed an executive order July 8 to protect access to reproductive healthcare services after the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion June 24. 

Physicians are less likely to detect serious cases of COVID-19 among people of color because of false pulse oximeter readings, provoking the FDA to discuss the issue with an advisory panel scheduled for later this year, according to Politico. 

The first year of COVID-19 was incredibly difficult for hospitals, as they dealt with an unknown virus, shortages of staff and equipment, financial difficulties and other challenges.

University of Chicago Medicine and Sinai Chicago have joined a Chicago-based initiative focused on using innovation to increase health equity.

In a decade of aiming to reduce overuse in healthcare, a group of internal medicine physicians  found that overuse is prevalent in racial and ethnic minority groups, leading to what it called a "possible double jeopardy."

Eight health systems have joined a new American Medical Association health equity initiative that provides mentorship and networking, the AMA reported June 20. 

Kimberlydawn Wisdom, MD, a Detroit physician and executive, was honored with Stakeholder Health's first Dr. Ruth J. Temple Award.

Almost 35 percent of counties in the U.S. — or 1,094 — are maternity deserts, according to an interactive map by March of Dimes.

Dr. Chyke Doubeni was selected to serve as chief health equity officer of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus.

Cutting out co-pays, deductibles and insurers would certainly disrupt the healthcare industry, and to serial entrepreneur Glen Tullman, it represents a just and more equitable system, Inc. reported May 24.