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How health information exchange and interoperability can help drive health equity
To kick off the new year, Abner Mason met with Erica Galvez, CEO of Manifest MedEx, for our ongoing discussion series, Under the Same Sky. During this conversation, they discussed initiatives by the organization to address health equity challenges to make healthcare data sharing work for everyone. They also focused on the new California Health and Human Services Data Exchange Framework and how it facilitates the secure and appropriate exchange of health and social services information to drive whole-person care.
The role of AI in healthcare
Abner Mason met with Dr. Leo Anthony Celi who is the Clinical Research Director and Principal Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Computational Physiology at MIT and a practicing intensivist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. The conversation was centered around the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, and the opportunities and challenges that Dr. Celi is concerned about as the healthcare industry moves full speed ahead with AI investments and initiatives.
Strategies to address new TCPA rules for interactive voice response (IVR) solutions
Effective July 20, 2023, health plans must obtain prior express consent for artificial or prerecorded voice calls made to residential telephone lines. Our CultureGuide® solution addresses TCPA rules and abides by the current standards in place.
Quantifying the impact of the social determinants of health featuring Socially Determined
As part of our ongoing discussion series, Under the Same Sky, Abner Mason, founder and CEO of SameSky Health, met with Dr. Trenor Williams, CEO and co-founder of Socially Determined, to talk about the importance of social risk data. The conversation focused on the value of quantifying the impact of the social determinants of health (SDOH) and actions that health plans can take to improve health outcomes, reduce health disparities, and track measurable results.
Effective strategies for collecting health-equity-related member data to identify and address health disparities
SameSky Health hosted a webinar, Effective strategies for collecting health equity-related member data to identify and address health disparities, to discuss solutions to successfully collect critical member data to track health equity metrics and execute effective initiatives. The featured speakers were Abner Mason, founder and CEO of SameSky Health, and Meredith Welsh, SVP of health operations at SameSky Health. View the recording.
Insure the Uninsured Project helps make critical connections
From unwinding the public health emergency (PHE) to expanding eligibility for coverage, the state of California leads the way when it comes to public health policy. And for many of its advancements, Insure the Uninsured Project (ITUP) has been there to help guide policy, connecting leaders from government, health plans, and local communities to effect real change within the state.
Now is the time to advance health equity
From CMS’ latest Advance Notice to the NCQA’s Health Equity Accreditation program, the healthcare industry is finally seeing a shift towards addressing health equity.