The Community Well-Being Index will show how the environment affects access to health resources, readiness to change and overall health risk. Private sector and academia collaboration
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Health2047 spins out tech-enabled Medicare Advantage plan for underserved
Zing Health is a community-focused, physician-led health plan that addresses the social determinants of health.
SDOH: Food insecurity adds $53 billion annually to healthcare costs
Food insecurity is more than about being hungry, it’s about the estimated 1 in 8 Americans who do not have access to nutritious food.
Knowing where a patient lives is a first step towards addressing the SDOH, but physicians traditionally don’t ask
With value-based care, there are more incentives for providers to take SDOH factors into account, but few have a good handle on it.
Thousands of Kaiser Permanente workers to protest on Labor Day in Oakland
The workers are protesting what they see as the healthcare giant’s unfair labor practices.
Physician pay increased in 2018 while productivity remained stagnant
Physician compensation rebounded from a stagnant 2017, but the increase in productivity was negligible.
Medicare Plan Finder gets upgrade for the first time in a decade
The new Plan Finder walks users through the Medicare Advantage and Part D enrollment process from start to finish.
More than twice as many employers than 10 years ago are planning to increase investments in employee health and wellness
Since 2016, the proportion of employers using health-related mobile apps has risen by 46%.
Confusing laws, bad actors among the challenges facing healthcare data safety and patient privacy
The legal and technological picture surrounding data is a muddy one, and the healthcare industry is scrambling to keep up.
One-third of pre-approved prescription drugs have not completed the FDA approval process
From 1992 to 2008, 36% of post-market studies had not been completed, and many took five years to even begin.
