Latest news
See our recent activity in industry publications and media. We regularly share expertise and insights focused on topics around health equity, the social determinants of health (SDOH), and related topics. Check out our latest news below.
Search by category
SameSky Health CTO Josh Siegel Named to Top 25 CTO List
SameSky Health Chief Technology Officer Josh Siegel has been named one of the Top 25 Healthcare Technology CTOs of 2022 by Healthcare Technology Report.
SameSky Health Achieves HITRUST Risk-Based, 2-Year Certification
SameSky Health, a cultural experience company that removes barriers to care and forms meaningful relationships to bring people to health, announced today that it has earned Certified status for information security by HITRUST. Reflecting the company’s commitment to high operational standards, the HITRUST Risk-Based, 2-Year (r2) Certified status indicates that both our hosted CultureGuide™ solution and corporate infrastructure has met key regulations as well as industry-defined requirements, with appropriate risk management.
Healthcare IT Today: Steadfast commitment to HIE opens the door for health equity
Collaboration in healthcare delivers remarkable outcomes. Such was the case at the first ever collaborative conference for health information exchange (HIE), interoperability, public health, and health equity. The Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit, brought together HIEs, state agencies and interoperability experts nationwide.
SameSky Health to participate in AWS Healthcare Accelerator for Health Equity
SameSky Health announced today its selection to participate in the AWS Healthcare Accelerator for Health Equity. The Accelerator is a technical, business, and mentorship program for early-stage companies who seek to use AWS to increase access to health services, reduce health disparities by addressing the social determinants of health (SDOH), and/or use data in the promotion of equitable and inclusive systems of care.
HIT Consultant: AWS names 10 startups for 2022 AWS Healthcare Accelerator cohort
SameSky Health is among the 10 startups selected for the AWS Healthcare Accelerator cohort, focused on health equity. With the aim of reducing health disparities, these startups are increasing access to health services, addressing social determinants of health, and leveraging data to promote equitable and inclusive systems of care.
McKinsey & Company: Digital Health: An opportunity to advance health equity
Considering patients’ backgrounds can improve their experience with and the efficacy of a digital product, whether it’s a medical device or an interactive platform. While many digital tools integrate various language options, failing to address cultural context remains a barrier to adoption. SameSky Health of North Hollywood, California, partners with health plans to create messages customized for each patient based on their cultural background, language, and preferred mode of communication.
Becker’s Health IT: How California is building the nation’s largest healthcare data exchange
The state of California recently embarked on an ambitious endeavor. Using hundreds of millions of dollars in public funding, the nation's largest state plans to connect its hospitals and healthcare providers through a statewide health information exchange. “We should have a healthcare system in this country that works for everyone regardless of what they look like, what they talk like, where they come from, or how much money they make,” said Abner Mason, founder and CEO of SameSky Health.
Blue Shield of California: 15 languages, 9,000 phone calls and more: How Blue Shield worked to get people vaccinated
Amid a critical time in the pandemic, Blue Shield of California conducted an intensive outreach effort to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates in communities that were hardest to reach during the early stages of the vaccine rollout.
SameSky Health is part of newly launched Snowflake Healthcare & Life Sciences Data Cloud
Snowflake Data Marketplace partners, like Compile, Equifax, Invitae, IQVIA, PRECISIONxtract, and SameSky Health, enable timely access to 3rd party data sources via data sharing, enabling healthcare and life sciences organizations to securely exchange critical datasets in a timely manner, eliminating the need for traditional data sharing methods requiring data copying and movement.
ViVE: They can’t get no satisfaction: rethinking care for disaffected patients
Consider opportunities to enhance care delivery for the least well-served patients in the nation. From the first to the last touchpoint, our panel will break down the patient journey and provide guidance on making care more accessible and appropriate for patients disenfranchised by inequities in healthcare. Hear when to use digital or in-person interactions to engender trust, improve cultural competence, inject personalization, and drive provider accountability for equitable care delivery.
McKinsey & Company: The people behind healthcare innovation: interview with Abner Mason, CEO of SameSky Health
In the latest People Behind Healthcare Innovation interview, Amy Hung of McKinsey & Company speaks with Abner Mason, CEO and Founder of SameSky Health. In this interview, Abner shares his decade-long public sector experience which led him to realize the gap in healthcare for multi-cultural communities and ultimately led him to create SameSky Health.
Ahead in Health: Digital equity in the shadow of digital health with John A. Powell and Abner Mason
Virtual health care boomed in the COVID-19 pandemic, and it’s undoubtedly a huge part of the future of medicine. But is that good news for everyone? Underserved communities are at risk of being left even further behind as the most affordable, timely, convenient care increasingly happens online. Digital care actually has the potential to do the opposite—to improve access, personalize care, and reduce historic health inequities—but only if we design it right, and do so right now.
Twilio webinar: Advancing Health Equity
Abner Mason joined a Twilio panel discussion focused on how emerging technology can be leveraged to advance the overall cause of health equity. Panelists shared lessons learned from organizations interested in working to close health disparities and inequities in their communities. They also discussed how you can personalize and scale your engagements to build trust and relationships over time. View the recording here.
Journal of America’s Physician Groups: Using texting and data mining to improve pediatric care
“To help bring members and parents back to preventive care, our Board in early 2021 approved a text messaging program in partnership with ConsejoSano. The program allows us to easily notify parents when children are due for preventive visits—and relieve that notification burden from our PCP offices and IPA provider relations staff.” From “Using Texting & Data Mining to Improve Pediatric Care,” by James Slaggert, CEO, Children First Medical Group, in the Journal of America’s Physician Groups. (Summer 2021)
Rock Health: Building toward equity: A working model for digital health
If the last few years are any indication, healthcare is embracing the promise of digital. Few things on this planet make our team more excited than the opportunities of digital health coming to fruition. However, as we celebrate digital health’s progress, we also see a long road ahead. Abner Mason, Founder and CEO of ConsejoSano, says, “We can’t solve a problem that we can’t see. Healthcare organizations could leverage race, ethnicity, and language data to understand where and in what language to reach patients, who’s at risk, and how to step in. But none of that is possible if we fail to gather the data.”
HIMSS: Payer experiences and challenges: Now and moving forward
“It makes it hard for plans to introduce new digital health tools when engagement is a challenge,” says Abner Mason, Founder and CEO of SameSky Health. More about his thoughts on payers’ road forward in digital health, AI & machine learning, and financial health, in this HIMSS article.
Techonomy: The time to prioritize digital health equity is now
Digital literacy begins with actually engaging patients in their language of preference. Read more about his ideas on meeting people where they are, as well as aligning incentives with equity, in this Techonomy article, “The Time to Prioritize Digital Health Equity is Now.”