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Diversity and Inclusion

athenahealth Updates its Marketplace Program with Enhancements

by Jasmine Pennic 03/21/2023 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know: - athenahealth, Inc., today announced it significantly upgraded the athenahealth Marketplace with new features and capabilities designed to help customers and partners further extend the value of athenahealth’s solutions. - Over the last year, athenahealth has evolved the Marketplace program’s infrastructure and app store to help healthcare practices easily discover and quickly implement innovative solutions that support their efforts to improve clinical and
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H1 Launches Advanced Diversity and Clinical Trial Performance Insights

by Syed Hamza Sohail 03/13/2023 Leave a Comment

H1 Launches Advanced Diversity and Clinical Trial Performance Insights

What You Should Know: - H1, the connecting force for global healthcare provider, clinical, science, and research information, today announced the availability of indication-level diversity insights in addition to institution, provider, and patient diversity data within its Trial Landscape solution. - Additionally, H1 has successfully onboarded its first customer – a top 20 pharmaceutical company – onto the H1 Data Network, a new solution that aggregates sponsor-contributed site and
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Forrester Unveils 5 Healthcare Predictions for 2023

by Syed Hamza Sohail 11/04/2022 Leave a Comment

Forrester Unveils 5 Healthcare Predictions for 2023

What You Should Know: - A new dawn is on the horizon in healthcare. Equipped with new digital capabilities and pressured by new consumer expectations for personalized, convenient experiences, healthcare organizations face a predicament — act now and stay afloat, fail to act and get consumed by the competition, or risk financial ruin. - Market research leader Forrester’s latest report explores 5 key predictors for healthcare in 2023. Healthcare in the Era Post-Covid COVID-19
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Solv CEO Diversifies Cap Table, Adds 75 Female Investors as Part of $45M Series C

by Fred Pennic 05/27/2022 Leave a Comment

Solv Secures Participation from 75 Female Investors as Part of Larger $45M Series C

What You Should Know: - Today,  Heather Fernandez, CEO and co-founder of healthcare on-demand app Solv Health shared her diversity plans for bringing on more women and first-time investors to the Cap Table as part of the company’s $45M Series C round. As a Filipino-Iranian woman, Heather knows “people like me” don’t get funded - or hired or invited to the table. Women are also more likely to be healthcare decision-makers for their families.  - Heather created a Special Purpose
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How the Life Sciences Industry Can Boost Diversity and Inclusion Efforts

by Ariel Katz CEO and co-founder of H1 05/03/2022 Leave a Comment

How the Life Sciences Industry Can Boost Diversity and Inclusion Efforts

Although it is well established that diversity improves outcomes and drives excellence, implementing diversity lags behind in many industries, including life sciences and healthcare.  Diversity is lacking across the entire field, from academic research to clinical work, composition of the workforce, and medical practice. This leads to worse health outcomes and fewer professional opportunities for underserved demographics, such as racial and ethnic minorities, women, and people with
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Decentralized Clinical Trials: Keys to Optimizing Diversity and Inclusion

by Michael Delisle, VP, Practice Leader for Digital Health at GattiHR 11/03/2021 Leave a Comment

Decentralized Clinical Trials: Keys to Optimizing Diversity and Inclusion

The U.S. pharma industry and research intuitions have long struggled with increasing clinical trial diversity in an effective, sustainable, and scalable fashion. Clinical research, in general, acknowledges the universal struggle of recruiting enough participants from various demographic groups. For example, racial and ethnic minorities have been historically underrepresented in clinical trials—a problem that still persists today. According to Deloitte, African Americans comprise 13% of the
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3 Ways to Address Gender and Racial Bias in Clinical Trials

by Jennifer Jones-McMeans, PhD, Divisional Vice President of Global Clinical Affairs at Abbott’s Vascular Business 10/13/2021 Leave a Comment

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I have dedicated my career to clinical research and making strides to advance modern medicine. In the work I do as a clinical researcher, we are addressing racial and gender biases that exist today in clinical trials. For example, in cardiovascular disease—my area of study—we know that women’s symptoms present differently than men and yet their symptoms have often gone undiagnosed or dismissed by physicians. It is well documented that communities of color have historically been mistreated by
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Grand Rounds Health & Doctor On Demand Acquires Included Health to Support D&I for LGBTQ+ Community – Health M&A

by Fred Pennic 05/26/2021 Leave a Comment

Grand Rounds Health & Doctor On Demand Acquires Included Health

What You Should Know: - Today, Grand Rounds Health and Doctor On Demand announced they acquired Included Health, the first comprehensive healthcare navigation platform for the LGBTQ+ community. Together, they will address LGBTQ+ health challenges and improve outcomes. - The LGBTQ+ community disproportionately experiences discrimination and health-related stigmas. In a national study with over 1,500 LGBTQ+ employees from
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Why Cancer Registries are Part of America’s Fight for Racial Equality

by Warren A Whyte, Ph.D., VP Scientific Partnerships at ConcertAI 02/09/2021 Leave a Comment

Why Cancer Registries are Part of America’s Fight for Racial Equality by Warren A Whyte, Ph.D.,

According to a 2019 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, one in 1,000 Black males can expect to die at the hands of the police. Black males were also 2.5 times more likely to die during an encounter with police than white males. For some, those figures are staggering. For many others, they are reminders of the racial disparities that have existed for far too long in this country. So, in 2020, when recent events have brought racial injustice back into the national
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COVID-19 and Racial Disparities: Transforming the Health of Businesses

by Margarita Alegría, PhD, Chief of the Disparities Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital 11/20/2020 Leave a Comment

Pandemics and Protests: Transforming the Health of American Businesses

American businesses and their leadership are at a crossroads. COVID-19 has forced us all to re-evaluate how we work and live, while the current protest movements have placed a spotlight on the systemic injustices non-white workers face both in and out of the office. Given that communities of color have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, companies serious about doing right by their employees need to act decisively and clearly or risk becoming complicit in the racial and social
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