AI Can Expand Access to Healthcare — But Only With Human Action
Health systems can turn insights into action, ensuring that preventive care actually happens by combining accurate risk prediction with human outreach and careful planning.
The “Third Way” for Digital Health Engagement
We need an agentic layer capable of fetching a longitudinal medical record and translating that static clinical intent into a daily, living context.
The New Blueprint: How Clever Care Health Plan is Scaling Its Member Experience [Video]
MedCity News was at the Vive conference and spoke with executives who shared their insights for the healthcare industry.
We Have a Problem: Even Doctors Struggle to Navigate our Healthcare System
I lived for nine years with ALS while navigating a healthcare system that routinely obscured my own medical reality. But I know that pain is only amplified for individuals without medical expertise like mine.
Housing is the Next Frontier in Proactive Care. Here’s How Health Plans Can Help
Just as health plans have learned to identify and intervene early with chronic conditions like diabetes or heart disease, they can and should do the same for housing and other health-related social needs.
The Future of Pharmacy Access: The Impact of Putting Rx Information in Patients’ Hands
A quick conversation about coverage, availability and pricing can help patients make informed decisions.
Scaling Healthcare Starts at Home: The Case for Self-Treatment
By empowering patients to take part in their own care, we can expand capacity, improve outcomes, and make the system more sustainable.
How Artera is Using Agentic AI to Humanize Patient Care
Artera President Tom McIntyre talks about the practical application of AI in healthcare.
Mind The Gaps: Closing the Digital Divide to Improve Behavioral Healthcare
The shortfalls that accompany this technology gap touch everything from continuity of care and outcomes to the patient experience.
The Referral Is Broken: Why Healthcare’s Last Bottleneck Still Lacks Innovation
We've automated everything but the one workflow that most directly determines whether patients actually get the care they need. The gap between knowing what works and implementing it at scale reveals the real problem that healthcare treats referrals as an administrative burden to manage, not a critical workflow to optimize.
The Hidden Data Errors Delay Healthcare for Millions of Americans
Network inaccuracy isn’t an inconvenience – it’s a public health crisis.
Late-in-Life Autism Diagnosis: Why Adults Still Face So Many Barriers and How We Can Do Better
Awareness of autism has grown, but we need to move beyond this into understanding and acceptance. Real progress depends on how we translate understanding into action — training more professionals, funding adult services, and redesigning workplaces and communities so autistic individuals can flourish throughout their lifespan.
Beyond Analytics: How Sellers Dorsey is Hard-Coding Value into Medicaid Policy [Video]
How to turn analytics into actual policy outcomes.
The Dire Cost Of Medicaid Cuts To Kids’ Mental Health
If we gut school-based care, we’re not only closing doors, we’re also deepening the racial and economic inequities that already shape our mental health system. We can’t claim to care about equity in healthcare if we’re willing to strip care from the very places that reach the kids who need it most.
White Bagging: A Prescription for Disruption in Care
White bagging not only creates significant uncompensated administrative burden and scheduling challenges for providers, but it also delays or limits access to necessary medication for patients.
When Listening Could Save a Life: The Human Cost of Medical Gaslighting
Let’s be honest. Clinicians are taught to reduce unnecessary care. But there’s a razor-thin line between avoiding unnecessary tests and failing to believe a patient’s symptoms.
Atherosclerosis and Osteoporosis: A Tale of Two Conditions
Why has there been so little progress against the rate of osteoporotic fractures and the associated morbidity and mortality? The deaths are real, the pain and suffering are real — and almost all of us have witnessed it. And, of course, the cost to our health system, $57 billion per year, is real.
Protecting Members’ Medicaid Coverage Must Start Now
Here's a roadmap that brings together a wide range of existing and new initiatives under four key goals that enable community-based organizations to take stock of their existing capabilities and coordinate across them effectively.