By Gil Bashe – This is not a crisis of scarcity. It is a crisis of priorities. The U.S. health system does not consistently organize its clinical, financial, or policy decisions around the shared goal of improving people’s health: their physical and mental well-being.
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By Halima Ahmadi-Montecalvo PhD MPH – Improving health outcomes requires more than medical care alone—it demands a holistic approach that addresses Social Drivers of Health (SDOH), such as housing, food security, transportation and interpersonal safety. The evidence is clear: addressing these factors not only improves health but also…
By Brian Conrad BSN RN – Food insecurity and low nutritional awareness contribute to multiple chronic health conditions in patients across the United States. Some diseases linked to food insecurity include hypertension (high blood pressure), diabetes, coronary heart failure, and kidney disease, just to name a few.
By Dr. Rachael Grimaldi – Despite being home to some of the world’s leading healthcare systems and research institutions, patients in the United States still face poor health outcomes in many areas. For example, the U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate compared to other similarly resourced countries.
By Tony Willoughby – It’s just human nature in many ways: We often know what we need to do, but we struggle to take all the steps at exactly the right time to get to the outcome we desire. Such is the case with medication adherence.
By David Pyke – Social determinants of health, as defined by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.
By David Burda – AHRQ’s snapshot of the U.S. healthcare system taken through the lens of 233 performance measures in three domains and six subareas under the quality-of-care domain. The 2021 report is a picture of the healthcare system as it was in 2019, a year before the COVID-19 pandemic.
By David Burda – In Bargain, Pete Townshend of The Who sings, “One and one don’t make two. One and one make one.” It’s the romantic notion that when two people who are right for each other get together they essentially become one person. A new being. They are better together than they are apart.
By Susan Beaton RN – The ongoing pandemic has ushered in many changes within healthcare, from the way care is delivered to how patients interact with the system. One prime example of this change is the massive surge in telehealth usage and the growing need, and appetite, for digital healthcare experiences.