Patient Engagement

COVID-19 and civil unrest in 2020 spotlighted serious healthcare disparities. Have companies that announced efforts to combat inequities done enough? Jasmaine McClain, principal of the Health Equity Alliance at the Health Management Academy, discusses.

It is delivering on reform promises made following the recommendations of the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission.

During Global Health Equity Week, HIMSS is calling on its members to contact senators and state governors to make policy changes preserving virtual care flexibilities and modernizing information and technology systems to improve perinatal healthcare.

IQ Solutions works with nonprofit organizations and federal agencies to help expand access to care and improved population health. Kimberly Brock, the company's VP of communications, explains more.

Amy Chacko, chair of the New England HIMSS Clinical Informatics Committee, offers one example: Why better education and outreach are needed to increase access to monkeypox vaccines in the LGBTQ+ community.

Also, the New Zealand Ministry of Health reported an undercount of reported COVID-19 hospitalisations since the start of the pandemic.

Connecting care teams and enabling information sharing among hospitals, group practices and, most importantly, families is crucial to helping more senior citizens get healthcare at home.

Inbound Health, with $20 million from Flare Capital Partners, will help providers and health plans develop home-based acute care and skilled nursing models.

The GoodSAM app alerts responders to provide first aid to nearby individuals in cardiac arrest. 

Among other impacts, ending the PHE would represent access challenges and a loss of Medicaid coverage for millions, and would end medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder without an in-person exam