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Top Healthcare Industry Predictions for 2024: Tech, Workforce, Costs

January 8, 2024 - The start of a new year brings a slew of healthcare industry predictions. What trends will take hold in 2024? What strategies will be widely adopted? What will remain the same and what will radically change? Our editorial senior staff have been asking experts these questions as the new year approached. Now, four staff members will share their findings. The responses cover a broad...

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How to Realize Health Equity in Benefits, OOP Costs for Women

by Kelsey Waddill

Health benefits are one of the under-explored contributors to healthcare gender disparities and health equity gaps. Employed women spend $15.4 billion more on healthcare than men per year out of pocket and are more likely to reach their...

Ensuring People with Disabilities Fit into Health Equity Goals

by Sara Heath

When it comes to health equity for patients with physical and developmental disabilities, communication is key. The disparities affecting this population are well documented. According to the World...

How Healthcare Orgs Can Improve Their Health Equity Measures

by Kelsey Waddill

When the nonprofit behind the most popular performance measurement tool implemented health equity measures, it begged the question: how can healthcare organizations measure equity? Healthcare industry...

The Path Toward a DE&I Committee at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health

by Sara Heath

It’s been three years since healthcare organizations and industry groups across the country made promises to achieve health equity. Listen to the full podcast to hear more details. And...

Advancing Medical Research by Addressing Funding, Trust, and Diversity

by Kyle Murphy, PhD

Medical and health research is vital to advancing evidence-based care delivery and treating existing and emerging diseases, but it faces numerous headwinds, from funding and trust in research to...

Increasing Workforce Diversity in Healthcare, Improving Patient Outcomes

by Alivia Kaylor

The significance of diversity in healthcare cannot be overstated, as it ensures that medical staff is representative of the communities they serve, leading to better outcomes for patients and their...

Understanding the Role of Medical Schools in Medical Workforce Diversity

by Sara Heath

The health equity push is permeating all aspects of the medical industry, with even medical schools looking at how it can improve its recruitment tactics to make for medical workforce...

Breaking the Stigma of Male Infertility to Promote Greater Health Equity

by Alivia Kaylor

Male infertility is a growing concern affecting millions of people worldwide. According to recent trends, male infertility accounts for 40–50% of infertility cases and affects roughly 7% of all...

Making Medicare Advantage Plans for the LGBTQ+ Community

by Kelsey Waddill

For generations, the LGBTQ+ community has faced discrimination in the healthcare system. Seniors in the LGBTQ+ community, in particular, have faced a lifetime of inequity and many now enter some of the...

How to Establish an Industry Collaboration Team to Pursue Industrywide Goals

by Kelsey Waddill

Partnership in the healthcare industry can be fraught due to competing interests and competition within segments of the industry, but when a healthcare organization creates internal industry...

Exploring the Intersection of AI, Bias, and Value-Based Care

by Shania Kennedy

Many healthcare experts consider value-based care as a key step toward improved health outcomes and lower costs, but adoption has been slow. Research from Insights by Xtelligent Healthcare Media...

How to Measure, Improve Strategic Primary Care Investments

by Kelsey Waddill

Strategic primary care investments—such as investing in sustainable EHR models and moving toward value-based care—can have an impact far beyond primary care services, according to Vivek...

Hospitals Win 340B Ruling, FTC Investigates Telehealth Company Cerebral

by Hayden Schmidt

Hospitals got a big win last week after the Supreme Court reversed a cut to the 340B Drug Pricing Program that netted several hospitals increased revenues. Justices agreed with the American Hospital...

How to Boost Virtual Care Access, Eliminate Demographic Barriers

by Kelsey Waddill

Despite a surge in virtual care utilization, virtual care access remains challenging for many individuals across the US, particularly due to cultural and geographic barriers. Adam Hornung, executive...

Women in Medicine Strives for Gender Equity in Clinician Workforce

by Sara Heath

Healthcare is staring down a clinician workforce and staffing crisis, a problem only exacerbated by its own gender equity issues. Prominently, women are leaving the medical workforce in droves, but...

Many Telehealth Providers Facing Impractical Patient Expectations

by Kyle Murphy, PhD

Telehealth was instrumental to the healthcare industry's response to the coronavirus pandemic, but telehealth providers are coming face to face with unrealistic patient expectations, leading to...

Feds Talk Health Equity, GE introduces Digital Health Platform at HIMSS22

by Hayden Schmidt

This week, in Orlando, FL, senior executives from healthcare providers and payer organizations are sharing their technology accomplishments and new product developments. HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf opened the conference Tuesday by highlighting the...

Principles for Orienting Payers, Providers Around Health Equity

by Kelsey Waddill

What does it take to be a healthcare organization that actively orients itself around health equity and seeks to advance health equity solutions for its members and patients? Listen to the full...

Becerra Outlines Health Equity Gains, Plans at HHS

by Sara Heath

The first year of the Biden Administration can be characterized by an emphasis on health equity, according to Xavier Becerra, the Secretary for the Department of Health & Human Services. And...

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