Salivary testing represents more than a new tool; it’s a scalable strategy to shift care upstream, reduce preventable emergencies, and bring equity to a population too often left behind.
Equity has to be built into the deployment strategy from day one, not treated as a future retrofit. That means prioritizing inclusion not only in the data but in the delivery, and recognizing that inclusive deployment is the foundation for inclusive datasets.
Richard Fu details the company's approach to nutrition therapy and strategy for patients using GLP-1s.
Here are some key insights to help unlock the viability of PDTs to address unmet needs throughout the healthcare ecosystem — for patients and providers alike — and how to take meaningful steps to improve the health experience.
Bringing care to people where they are improves community health outcomes — we must operate with more urgency to shore up care resources in rural areas.
Ideas floated by the Trump Administration and Democrats in Congress aim to expand access to fertility treatment as an essential health benefit. But an influx of patients could collide with an already-brittle system of 430,000 annual cycles, 5,000 embryologists, and long-overdue lab upgrades.
In an environment where speed, equity, and scientific rigor are all imperative, modernizing patient recruitment is no longer a future goal. It is a present necessity.
Across the nation, state-based health insurance exchanges are searching for ways to better serve their communities while making enrollment easier, more personal, and more accessible for everyone.
This requires leveraging technology and partnerships in new ways to break down traditional barriers, designing therapies to fit more seamlessly into patients’ lives, and creating more equitable access to life-sustaining treatments.
Pharmacogenomics offers an opportunity to help shield female cardiology patients from some of the negative impacts by helping to streamline the process from diagnosis to finding a successful treatment for that patient.
Interoperability offers the potential to improve the quality of care by providing more comprehensive, accurate health information to doctors and other providers, to patients and their caregivers, as well as to healthcare payers, and others with a valid need.
To prevent further harm and ensure families aren’t left behind again, we must use data more proactively — not only to close gaps in coverage but also to support accountability in how care continuity is managed.
How Zelis hopes to solve the healthcare financial system for payers and providers.
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.
The current system is failing vulnerable patients – those it was designed to help. While well-intentioned, the savings these programs promise rarely trickle down to patients.
They work in neighborhood clinics, community-based organizations, churches, housing facilities, and schools, or engage by phone or video calls. Their approach is based on local context and guided by culturally sensitive, person-centered strategies.
AI-generated simulations can standardize diversity in exposure by creating virtual patients from varied backgrounds, each with unique risk factors and life experiences.
The impact of private equity investments in healthcare under the new administration is multifaceted. While deregulation and business-friendly policies could stimulate investment and drive innovation, there are significant concerns about the potential negative effects on healthcare quality and access.