Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle

In Disney’s Big Hero 6, the protagonist, Hiro Hamada, will get stuck in a problem after working on it for a while because he’s becoming too set in his way of thinking. And he is only able to find the solution thanks to his brother’s, Tadashi Hamada, words ‘find a new angle, look for another way out.’ Health inequality and discrimination is not a new problem in healthcare. It is a problem that people have been fighting for since the very beginning but we still have not found the solution to achieving health equity. So it might be time to listen to Tadashi and shake things up. Maybe by taking a step back and examining the problem in a new light and at a different angle can help us find the solutions we’ve been searching for. To get that new angle, we reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community to see what interesting angles they could think of to this problem. The following is their ideas. (Side Note: Be sure to check out Data’s Role in Health Equity and Technology and Health Equity as well) Kimberly Hartsfield, Executive Vice President of Growth Enablement at VisiQuate Shockingly, 58% of hospital bad debt comes from insured patients. While directly impacting the revenue cycle, it means those dollars aren’t available for clinical services. This highlights the dire need to address patient access to care. Even in large metropolitan areas, many individuals still lack adequate access to basic healthcare services, especiall...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Administration Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Aaron Brandwein AdvancedMD Alex Rothberg Allyson Livingstone Amanda Hanse Source Type: blogs