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Montefiore’s Community Health Worker Role a Bridge to Medical Workforce

PatientEngagementHIT At Montefiore Medical Center, the Community Health Worker Institute (CHWI) is a pipeline to the healthcare workforce. Sure, the actual “community health worker,” or CHW, title is an entry-level job, but it’s a key starting...

What Health Plans Are Available For People With Disabilities?

HealthPayerIntelligence Public and private payers alike offer a multitude of benefits for people living with disabilities. According to the CDC, up to 27 percent of adults in the United States have some type of disability, including mobility, cognition,...

Exploring the Benefits of Digital Pathology Platforms and Sharing

LifeSciencesIntelligence Last month, at the Radiological Society of North America’s (RNSA) Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, Paige announced its partnership with Nuance, a Microsoft company, to develop a digital pathology and consultation network for...

Integrating Doulas Into Maternal Mental Healthcare, Care Teams

HealthCareExecIntelligence As part of its overall mission to improve health equity, NewYork-Presbyterian is host to a program aimed at improving maternal mental health and, in particular, closing race-based disparities in maternal mental health. According to the...

Using a Smartphone Attachment to Make Neurological Screenings Equitable

mHealthIntelligence Screening people early and often for potential health conditions is critical for stemming disease progression and improving patient outcomes. With the advent of advanced digital health tools, various types of screenings can be brought...

Navigating Prostate Cancer: Insights, Advances, and Personalized Care

LifeSciencesIntelligence Understanding prostate cancer is pivotal not just for enhancing early detection and treatment but also for reducing the impact of the second leading cause of cancer death in men.  In the United States, the financial toll of metastatic...

Can Digital Twin Neighborhoods Help Tackle Health Disparities?

HealthITAnalytics Addressing health disparities and improving patient outcomes are key to achieving health equity, but tackling these issues requires health systems to understand their population’s needs and develop strategies to meet them. Approaches...

Exploring Data Analytics in Pharmaceutical Marketing

PharmaNewsIntelligence As the global understanding of data analytics advances and new techniques come to fruition, nearly every industry is assessing how they can leverage analytics to improve outcomes for their stakeholders. The pharmaceutical industry is...

Price Transparency Healthcare Policies Reduce Out-Of-Pocket Costs

PharmaNewsIntelligence Price transparency enables patients to shop for the most effective and inexpensive healthcare available and is vital as patient out-of-pocket healthcare costs continue to skyrocket year-over-year.   A 2021 Kalorama Information analysis...

Understanding the Value-Based Reimbursement Model Landscape

RevCycleIntelligence The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) aims to have all traditional Medicare beneficiaries under a value-based care model by 2030. Although the pace may be slow, the healthcare industry is shifting away from fee-for-service...

Are Doulas the Key to Closing Maternal Mental Health Treatment Gaps?

PatientEngagementHIT NewYork-Presbyterian wants to do something about the nation’s maternal mental health crisis. In an effort to prepare pregnant people in their third trimesters for their new, child-filled lives, the healthcare organization is tapping...

Exploring Next Year’s Medical Affairs Outlook

LifeSciencesIntelligence Medical affairs teams are critical in scientific communication between life sciences companies, pharmaceutical companies, or industry leaders and medical professionals or patients. The Accreditation Council for Medical Affairs notes that...

Behind Walgreens’ Move on Prescription Drug Costs, Patient Experience

PatientEngagementHIT Walgreens is pushing its newest prescription drug cost savings tool as the retail health provider continues to vie for the pharmacy as a key part of the overall patient experience. Riding tailwinds indicating that patients are increasingly...

What the 23andMe Data Breach Reveals About Credential Stuffing

HealthITSecurity Genetic testing company 23andMe notified 6.9 million individuals that their personal information was compromised in October 2023. However, 23andMe had no evidence that there was a data security incident within its systems. Instead, threat...

Predicting Next Year’s Life Sciences Outlook: Med Devices, Biopharma

LifeSciencesIntelligence For the second year, Deloitte Life Sciences leveraged its network of life sciences and healthcare executives in the industry to compile a document with life sciences outlooks for the next year. Recruiting a relatively even ratio of...

How Do Payers Cover Prenatal, Postpartum Care for Pregnant People?

HealthPayerIntelligence Prenatal, perinatal, and postpartum care help ensure healthier pregnancies and better birth outcomes for pregnant people. Access to this essential care comes easier with adequate health insurance. Pregnant people are almost guaranteed...

How Advocate Health Uses Patient Communication IT to Close Care Gaps

PatientEngagementHIT Advocate Health wants to be the safety net for patients managing care gaps, using patient engagement technology to streamline the scheduling process. After all, healthcare isn’t easy to navigate, especially for patients who have seen...

How a Provider-Police Collab is Expanding Virtual Mental Health Access

mHealthIntelligence Law enforcement officers play an increasingly pivotal role in connecting people with mental health conditions to healthcare services. However, amid strained resources and hospital capacity problems, law enforcement often lacks efficient...

Optimizing Cancer Care Pathways Through Precision Medicine, RWD

PharmaNewsIntelligence Personalized medicine is vital because it streamlines clinical decision-making through genetic tests or biomarkers. Essentially, personalized care lets caregivers feel more confident that a patient will respond to a specific drug or be less...