How Technology Is Personalizing Healthcare in 2025
In Sir Luke Fildes’ 1891 painting The Doctor, a physician is seen attending to a sick child. The backdrop shows a modest home. The doctor is a figure of undivided attention focused on ...
Social Determinants
Overlooked in the Overdose Crisis: Addressing Substance Use Treatment for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Communities
Amid an escalating overdose crisis, growing attention has turned to racial and ethnic disparities in the accessibility of medication-assisted treatment (MAT), such as buprenorphine. Most ...
CMS’s Final Rule Impacting Star Ratings Puts Outcomes In Focus — Are Health Plans Ready to Take Action?
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Final Rule impacting Star Ratings shows a clear shift in priorities to focus on health outcomes and equity, where success is defined ...
Latest Patent News In Women’s Health
May is National Women’s Health Month, a time to raise awareness of women’s health issues and encourage women to prioritize their well-being. “Women’s health” generally covers medical ...
When Medicaid Cost Cutting Is Simply Cost Shifting
With the “big, beautiful bill” to advance President Trump’s America First agenda passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on May 22nd, all eyes are on members of the U.S. Senate as ...
Psychological distress over 30 years in Great Britain: the times they are a changin’ (or are they?)
“Number of nursing staff experiencing suicidal thoughts rises”… “Youth mental health in decline”… Many news stories have outlined the deterioration of mental health in the ...
The Case for Patient Transportation Coverage for Health Plans
Access to transportation is becoming an important social determinant of health, and experts are coming to realize that health plans can benefit significantly from offering coverage to ...
Dismissed, Delayed — and Done Waiting: The GI Crisis Midlife Women Can’t Afford
The average wait time for a non-urgent gastroenterology appointment in the U.S. is 48 days. That’s nearly seven weeks between the moment a woman says, “Something’s wrong,” and when ...
Beyond Screening: Addressing Social Challenges After the Questions Are Asked
Social determinants of health (SDOH) screening tools have been prioritized in emerging healthcare delivery models aimed at transforming traditional care delivery and reimbursing a ...
A Reality Check on SDOH: Challenges We Can’t Ignore
Recently, I had the privilege of chairing the virtual RISE Bedrock of Healthcare Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) event and attending their national in-person SDOH Conference. SDOH ...
Urbanicity and psychotic disorders across countries in the Global South
Urban living isn’t for everybody. It’s loud, it’s crowded, your upstairs neighbour has decided that Saturday at 8am is the perfect time to vacuum. That last one might just ...
Community-Driven Digital Solutions Can Transform Addiction Treatment and Ease the Burden on the Healthcare System
Substance use disorder (SUD) remains a costly and dangerous public health challenge that affects over 48 million people in the US annually. High relapse rates, typically 40-60%, lead me ...
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