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Strategic Planning Imperatives for the Path Forward
The AHA’s recently released 2021 Environmental Scan provides key data and insights on the current operational landscape and is designed to help leaders maneuver the rough road ahead.
Disruptors, Providers Invest in Health Equity
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has pledged to invest $40 million over the next three years in organizations working on improving health outcomes for underserved and underrepresented communities.
Applying Equity to Funding Health Care Startups
Fund managers now target companies addressing health equity with solutions aimed at increasing access and improving outcomes for historically underserved and marginalized communities. Some are assessing the diversity of fund managers and allocating a percentage of funds to companies owned by Blacks, Hispanics, Asians and women committed to advancing health equity.
AWS’ Latest Accelerator Aims to Give a Boost to Health-Equity Startups
Roundtrip’s continuing development can be traced in part to AWS’ Health Equity Initiative, a three-year $40 million commitment to help its health care customers develop cloud-based solutions to reduce health disparities.
Disrupting Behavioral Health: Achieving Greater Access and Equity
Some provider organizations are developing powerful networks by forging broad-based community partnerships, integrating physical and behavioral health care and more to address barriers to access. During a recent AHA Transformation Talks video, leaders from WakeMed Health and Hospitals in Raleigh, N.C., shared strategies to overcome these disparities and increase patient access to appropriate caregivers at the right time and place.
Mass Events Make Vaccines Accessible
On a recent Saturday in South Philadelphia, Tyrique Glasgow volunteered to be a patient ambassador to spread the word about a one-day COVID-19 vaccination clinic being run by Penn Medicine and Mercy Catholic Medical Center in a local gym.
BCBSA Sets Out to Reduce Racial Disparities in Maternal Health by 50% in the Next Five Years
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) launched a national strategy on April 20 to address racial health disparities, starting with maternal health. This multiyear strategy is built on harnessing data analytics to measure and track disparities and taking programs that work for individual Blues plans and bringing them to scale.
JPMorgan Chase Launches New Unit to Improve Care Quality for Employees
Just months after ending its Haven collaborative with Amazon and Berkshire Hathaway to cut employee health care costs and improve quality, JPMorgan Chase is banking on a new model. It plans to invest up to $250 million in a new venture — Morgan Health — to improve outcomes and promote health equity.
4 Principles to Guide Your Digital Health Strategy
A panel discussion with marketing and strategy leaders from 13 health systems and Gozio Health explored best practices, successes and challenges to engage communities in a digital strategy to maximize success.
The Buzz from the 2023 AHA Leadership Summit
Here’s what experts say health systems will need to do to build a future-ready workforce, achieve health equity goals and deliver care closer to home.