An individual's — and a population's - health is largely driven by social determinates. Every healthcare provider knows this, but the way that care is delivered fails to recognize this fact. "When it comes to patients basic resource needs, we…
Health Equity
The efforts to move U.S. healthcare toward a value-based system leave out solutions for dealing with patients who may suffer from unique or multiple conditions, according to an article published in The Atlantic.
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Hampshire's decision to drop 10 hospitals from its network has led to serious questions from the New Hampshire legislature on quality of and access to care, especially where it concerns women's health, according…
HHS has issued a memo requiring all private Medicare plans give beneficiaries — including same-sex couples — access to equal coverage in nursing homes where their spouses live.
Despite concern that young Americans won't purchase insurance on exchanges created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the least likely buyers are actually the older and wealthier segments of the population, according to a new analysis from Deft…
Advertisement
Houston-based Texas Children's Hospital has established the Jeffrey Modell Diagnostic and Research Center for primary immunodeficiency research, according to a report from the HeraldOnline.
Americans who live nonadjacent to major metropolitan areas pay 22 percent more in out-of-pocket healthcare costs than those who live in or near a major metropolitan area, according to a report from The Center for Rural Affairs.
The Northwest Metro Alliance, an accountable care organization learning lab and collaboration between Allina Health in Minneapolis and Bloomington, Minn.-based HealthPartners continues to keep medical cost increases low and improve health, according to a report detailing results from its third…
State Innovation Models should focus on projects to improve population health, according to an Institute of Medicine discussion paper.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will bring 30 million newly insured patients to hospitals and physicians. What are some demographic traits of this large incoming group of patients? A new report from PwC paints a portrait.