Healthcare Must-Have, Cultural Competency To Empower SDOH Our Take: Expanding access to digital tools with technology that incorporates cultural competencies and targets a diverse racial and ethnic population is an essential step toward ameliorating disparities. The ethnic community needs platforms that enhance the patient-physician connection by connecting patients with culturally competent medical professionals in ways that incorporate cultural, physical, and mental needs,

Adopt Basic Tools to Fix Disparities While Digital Divide Persists “Our Take'': While certain barriers to access telehealth technologies were acknowledged and are slowly being addressed during the pandemic (ex: ‘broadband access’, ‘reimbursement’, and ‘licensure’) the ‘digital divide still limits the utilization of digital technologies so the industry must look at deploying basic tools in the near term to address the divide. Although telehealth has been around for quite some

Eldertech Shifts Paradigm to More Complex Care for Seniors Our Take: COVID is busting the myth that seniors can’t or don’t want to use technology. Where there’s a digital divide between older and younger generations, older adults are gaining new tech skills during this time. Although eldertech (tech for the elderly) is in its infancy, it is growing fast in both application and market influence. With over $273M raised across 47 deals in the sector during the first three quarte

Incenting or Mandating Downside Risk Is Key to Population Health “Our Take”: To simultaneously decrease cost and improve quality of care, providers must share in downside risk. This pushes them to adopt new strategies of meeting patient needs, discouraging a volume-centered approach to treatment. Providers in alternative payment models (APMs) operating under a framework of value-based care are driven to pursue new methods of coordinating care, aiming to reach a higher level o