ABSTRACT Objectives: To develop an index using publicly available data to measure progress in addressing health care disparities. Study Design: Given inherent socioeconomic differences between ...

Health equality calls for equal care for everyone, health equity calls for need-based fairness in care even in the presence of social determinants of health (SDOH), health disparities are how ...

Educate the governing body on health equity and cultural competency within the organization and across the health care industry. Explain the language, vocabulary, and core concepts of health ...

Obesity is a complicated health condition that takes a heavy physical, psychological, and economic toll on both individuals and wider society. In the past, it was viewed as simply a problem for ...

The Innovation Center is also considering how performance measurement can better reflect health equity goals, including through stratified data reporting to model participants for care improvement.

I believe that modernizing the health care system to secure a stable, high-performing workforce that delivers both access and equity will require a multi-stakeholder public-private effort with ...

An expert Q&A on the challenges facing private equity (PE) in health care, with a focus on key federal antitrust issues, state regulation of PE health care arrangements, including material ...

Private-equity firms’ rapid pace of health care acquisitions have prompted discussions about their influence on the US health care system. Policy makers, especially at the state level, are ...

Private equity firms have a record of cutting services at health providers and leaving them with debt or gaps in care. Patients can face higher costs, and communities can lose hospitals.

Jacaranda Health Jacaranda Health uses AI to improve the quality of care for new mothers and newborns across Sub-Saharan Africa. Its digital health platform, which responds to thousands of inbound ...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks at a press conference in Los Angeles on March 21. Bonta sponsored a bill that would require private equity groups and hedge funds to notify his office of ...