Health Equity

Nwando Olayiwola, MD, is Humana's senior vice president and first chief health equity officer, the insurer said Jan. 25. 

Illinois is the first state where low-income, undocumented seniors can access public health insurance, according to Kaiser Health News.

UnitedHealthcare invested in an affordable housing project in Minnesota, further expanding the insurer's effort to improve health outcomes by addressing social determinants of health.

CMS issued a new guidance for state officials looking to roll out social determinants of health strategies for Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program members.

Blue Shield of California's board of directors will be majority women for the first time in its 82-year history with the addition of Myechia Minter-Jordan, MD, to its governing body, the insurer said Jan. 6.

Aetna Better Health of Illinois excluded Walgreens from its pharmacy network Dec. 1, a change that affected roughly 400,000 Medicaid members in Illinois, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Since joining Mayo Clinic in December 2019 as its first chief digital officer, Rita Khan has been leading the health system's COVID-19 digital health initiatives from telehealth expansion to data mapping and consumer engagement. 

Machine learning algorithms can analyze Facebook users' activity to predict the development of schizophrenia spectrum disorders and mood disorders, according to research published Dec. 3 in Nature Partner Journals Schizophrenia.

About 26 percent of U.S. children visited an urgent care or retail health clinic last year, according to a new CDC report. 

Patients who live in states that expanded Medicaid under the ACA were more likely to receive an earlier diagnosis of colon cancer than those who live in states that didn't expand the program, according to a study published Nov. 23…