Healthcare Strategies

Adding The Disability Community to the Push for Health Equity

As healthcare continues its push toward health equity, it is crucial not to exclude people with disabilities from the conversation. Colin O’Reilly, DO, FAAP, FACOP, FCCM, of Children’s Specialized Hospital outlines communication and advocacy strategies for designing a health equity platform that accounts for populations with disabilities.

Improving Performance on Health Equity Quality Measures

As payers and providers seek to reduce care disparities, health equity quality measures—like NCQA’s—may guide their efforts. Bryan Buckley, DrPH, director of health equity initiatives at the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), explains how organizations can shape partnerships and internal processes to align with their health equity quality measures.

Advancing Clinical Trial Diversity in the United States

In this episode, Liz Beatty, co-founder and chief strategy officer at Inato, emphasizes the significance of empowering community research centers to choose trials that cater to their unique needs and patient populations as a pivotal approach to enhance clinical trial diversity and access in the United States, thereby bringing care to those in need and transforming the clinical trial ecosystem.

Carving a Path to Health Equity Through Effective DE&I Committees

As healthcare organizations strive to address the needs of diverse patient populations, they are taking steps to align internal goals and workforce management strategies with this aim. Kimberly Williams, DNP, MSN, RN, NE-BC, and the administrative director at Stanford’s Bass Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases Hematology/Oncology, CAR-T, Stem Cell Transplant, and Center for Definitive and Curative Medicine, shares how a team of stakeholders at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health is working toward health equity improvement.

Understanding the Direct-to-Consumer Virtual Mental Health App Boom

As the US mental epidemic rages on, direct-to-consumer virtual mental healthcare apps have multiplied. CVS Health Chief Psychiatric Officer Dr. Taft Parsons III joined the podcast to discuss the current mental healthcare landscape and how technology use has impacted it, as well as the rise of consumer-facing digital tools for mental health and their pros and cons.

Unveiling Adherence Challenges in Mental Health, Leveraging Technology for Enhanced Care

In this episode, Colin Banas, MD, MSHA, Chief Medical Officer at DrFirst, sheds light on the difficulties of adhering to mental health treatment and emphasizes the role of technology in enhancing care. By identifying obstacles and harnessing the power of technology, healthcare professionals and patients can explore innovative solutions to overcome these challenges and improve the effectiveness of mental health methods.

Improving Female Representation Across the Healthcare Workforce

An analysis published by McKinsey & Company analyzing gender diversity in the healthcare workforce found that female representation drops off in higher-level positions. Gretchen Berlin, RN, Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, discussed the analysis and improvement strategies on this episode of Healthcare Strategies.

Exploring Patient Privacy Risks Of Third-Party Tracking Tech

A recent study published in Health Affairs found third-party tracking technology present on nearly all US nonfederal acute care hospital websites. Two of the study’s authors, Ari B. Friedman, assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Matthew McCoy, assistant professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania discussed their findings on Healthcare Strategies.

Identifying Drivers, Challenges Behind Remote Patient Monitoring Uptake

Healthcare stakeholders have been leaning on remote patient monitoring tools to provide chronic disease management support, care management, and adverse event reduction. The coronavirus pandemic honed remote patient monitoring skills and forced higher uptake, but stakeholders continue to face challenges around accessibility and reimbursement. Xtelligent Healthcare Media’s Anuja Vaidya, senior editor of mHealthIntelligence and special events lead, Hayden Schmidt, associate researcher, and Kyle Murphy, vice president of Editorial, chat about a recent Insights report detailing the opportunities and barriers for remote patient monitoring and what the future holds for these tools.

Improving Medical Research by Tackling Top Three Challenges

Funding, workforce diversity, and health equity challenges impede medical research advancement. Mary Woolley, president of Research!America, expounds upon the impact of these challenges and how the healthcare industry can rectify issues in these areas.