As the daughter of Nigerian immigrants who are both social workers, I observed how dedicated they were to their careers of service. Following in their footsteps, I am privileged to serve patients and families as a physician, and I have also become all too familiar with the undeniable truth about the impact of health inequities on specific populations.
The health care industry has made strides in addressing health inequities – but there is plenty of work to be done.
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Doctors and Debt: Why Short Visits Create Long-Term Challenges
Doctors aren’t just healers—they’re involuntary lenders. Every time a physician treats a patient, they’re fronting the cost of care and hoping to get reimbursed. If the insurer underpays or denies the claim, the financial burden falls on the patient. And if the patient can’t pay? The doctor eats the loss.
No other profession operates like this. Imagine a contractor building a house and only finding out months later whether they’ll be paid, and how much. That’s how American healthcare works.
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5 Value-Based Care Strategies to Control Patient Care Costs
The staggering reality that health care could soon account for one fifth of all domestic spending has put a bull’s eye on health care cost control. Is your ACO, health system, or physician organization ready to manage the coming congressional budget cuts? The only effective way to tackle Total Costs of Patient Care (TCoC) without cutting services is through a curated value-based care approach. Here are the fundamentals you need to know and five strategic steps to
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Heart Failure’s Hidden Price: Understanding the True Cost of Cardiac Events and AI’s Role in Reducing Expenses
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death and a growing financial strain on the U.S. healthcare system, costing an estimated $252.2 billion annually. With one in every eight healthcare dollars spent on cardiac care, the urgency to control costs while improving patient outcomes has never been greater.
As traditional care models struggle to keep up with demand, we are faced with an important question: How can we make cardiac care more sustainable, ensuring the healthcare
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Simplifying Clinical Trials: Addressing Technology Challenges for Site Teams
In recent years, clinical research and development stakeholders have put tremendous effort into improving patient-centered clinical trials, where patients feel valued as partners in the processes and approaches to care that impact their health. Clinical trial sponsors are keenly aware that, to do so, the use of advanced clinical technologies, including decentralized solutions, has been necessary to improve patient experience and accelerate drug development. But as sponsors implement multiple
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5 Reasons Why Remote Patient Monitoring for Blood Pressure is Beneficial for Maternal Health
Women who didn’t have risk factors going into pregnancy are experiencing maternal health complications at higher rates than ever before. They are particularly vulnerable to blood pressure complications. Rates of newly developed and chronic maternal high blood pressure skyrocketed from 2007 through 2019, and show no signs of slowing.
Hospitals are re-evaluating their standard approaches to Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy (HDP) as a result. The early identification and
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Why Nurse Leaders Deserve a Seat at the AI Table
AI is unlocking new possibilities for care delivery. As the frontline guardians of patient care, nurses play a critical role in ensuring AI solutions effectively address healthcare’s most pressing challenges. To fully harness AI’s potential, healthcare organizations must bring nurses, other clinicians and nurse leaders to the decision-making table.
Evaluating the Healthcare Landscape
In the last year alone, healthcare organizations faced over 700 data breaches, a nearly 21% turnover
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Transparency in Healthcare: Why It’s Essential for Patient Trust
Healthcare organizations need patient trust to operate successfully, and a lack of transparency is the biggest threat to maintaining the good faith of the people they serve. Whether it’s pricing, treatment methods, drug costs, or even the efficacy of medications, patients often feel left in the dark. And in an industry where life-altering decisions hinge on trust, transparency isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s critical.
When patients receive medication, they should be confident that it was
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Healthcare Downtime: The Cost of Digital Failures and Threats to Patient Safety
If we learned anything from the CrowdStrike fiasco of July 2024, it’s how much our daily lives depend on digital systems and how that reliance can spell disaster when these systems fail. Flights were grounded, banking systems went down, and hospitals and healthcare clinics were forced to delay or even cancel services.
Delta lost an estimated $380 million in revenue for its September quarter. But the stakes are even higher in healthcare, where digital platforms have become the backbone of
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With RCM Staff in Short Supply, Is AI the Missing Piece?
A hefty 63% of healthcare providers are grappling with revenue cycle management (RCM) staffing shortages, causing significant operational and patient-care challenges across the healthcare system.
The staffing deficit has created a challenging cycle: understaffed RCM departments struggle to handle claims denials, leading to delayed reimbursements and increased administrative costs. When staff members spend excessive time investigating and correcting denied claims, it prevents them from
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