Health Equity
Value to patient, seamless integration into practice keys to digital therapeutics success
WASHINGTON — Digital health technologies must have value, and must meet certain requirements for improved patient care, according to a panel discussion at the Digital Therapeutics Alliance Summit.
Shifting trends in CRC demographics, severity prove you are ‘not too young to have cancer’
Despite a decline in the overall incidence of colorectal cancer in the U.S., recent population-based data from the American Cancer Society show an alarming shift to younger age and more advanced disease at diagnosis.
Healio celebrates National Nurses Month
With May serving as National Nurses Month, Healio has collected the top stories in nephrology that discuss the challenges faced by nurses who treat patients with kidney disease.
Nonwhite patients in rural areas ‘even less likely’ to undergo colorectal cancer screening
CHICAGO — Race, ethnicity and rurality have a significant impact on colorectal cancer screening disparities, highlighting the need for interventions to overcome these barriers, according to data presented at Digestive Disease Week.
Discrimination prevents some in US from getting COVID-19 vaccine
U.S. adults who reported negative health care experiences because of discrimination based on their race or ethnicity were less likely to be vaccinated against COVID-19, a study found.
VIDEO: Achieving health equity in cardiovascular care will ‘take all of us as a community’
In this Healio video exclusive, Healio | Cardiology Today Editorial Board Member Paul L. Douglass, MD, MACC, FSCAI, highlights his takeaways from the 2023 American College of Cardiology Health Equity Summit.
Providers must look into their community for novel ways to promote healthier lifestyle
SEATTLE — Promoting disease prevention is critical for improving public health in the U.S., and providers can contribute at the individual level by interacting more with their community, according to a speaker.
Clinton-era health equity initiative may have improved STEMI care and mortality
A Clinton-era initiative to reduce racial/ethnic health disparities may have helped to minimize inequities in PCI usage and mortality after STEMI among Black, white and Hispanic patients in New Jersey, researchers reported.
VIDEO: Healio Rising Disruptor investigates health equity, ‘barriers to liver transplant’
In a Healio video exclusive, Lauren Nephew, MD, MSCE, winner of the 2022 Healio Rising Disruptor Award, discussed her continued work in moving the needle toward health equity in hepatology, specifically for liver transplantation and cancer.
ACP increases efforts to advance equitable obesity care
SAN DIEGO — ACP has launched a new initiative to improve equitable access to obesity care through physician education, advocacy and partnerships.