The leading medical school accreditation body in the U.S. has removed language from its standards requiring schools to teach ...

A new evidence-based framework aims to establish a U.S. industry standard for measuring health equity efforts. Put out by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), the white paper has been in ...

Even as healthcare leaders embrace health equity as an urgent goal, figuring out how to undo the complex web of systems responsible for America’s serious health disparities is daunting. The work will ...

CMMI’s agenda centers on productivity and value-based payment expansion, including outcomes-based reimbursement, Most-Favored-Nation-style drug pricing benchmarks, and access pathways for GLP-1 and ...

Digital inclusion offers pathways to health equity by expanding access to the formal health care sector and supporting independent health management. Yet poverty- and education-related disparities ...

Health equity has steadily gained focus within the healthcare industry, from racial and ethnic health disparities to gender imbalances in healthcare costs. The business case, as well as the moral ...

Access to healthcare is a fundamental human right, yet disparities persist globally. Digital health technologies hold transformative potential to bridge these gaps by enabling more equitable delivery ...

As healthcare leaders nationwide grapple with rising uncompensated care and widening gaps in access, health systems are called to further invest in health equity. But that won’t be easy. Uninsured ...

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the ...

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.) introduced legislation on Monday to extend legal protections to ...

Dr. Sophia Chang is a practicing general internist at San Francisco General Hospital, adjunct faculty at UCSF and CCIO at Clover Health. Have you heard of “health equity”? If you haven’t, you will ...

Soaring costs for IT and other expenses push doctors to seek investment from private equity investors to stay afloat.