Health disparities

PHOTOGRAPHED BY LISSYELLE LARICCHIA Author: Dr. Sanah Ahsan's article, please click here. Are you struggling to focus? Finding it hard to concentrate on one thing or read for more than 30 seconds without picking up your phone? Do you feel like you don’t fit in, like you can’t do bills, taxes or keep up with the pace of society? Are ADHD memes circling online resonating with you? You’re not alone. Hundreds of thousands more women are being assessed for ADHD than ever before, especially Black...

November 13, 2020, EHR Intelligence. A lack of standardization can lead to gaps and inaccuracies in EHR data collection, resulting in inequitable care delivery. But providers are finding ways to overcome this challenge to deliver more equitable care to patients. Inequities in the healthcare system are abundant. From care delivery to health outcomes, there is a large divide in patient response and outcomes based on demographics such as gender, race and ethnicity, sexual identity, and even zip...

By Bruce Japsen, June 18, 2020, Forbes. A project by Humana to improve the health of seniors in private Medicare plans through better management of patient populations continues to show improvement five years into the effort, the health insurer said in a new report. Humana’s “Bold Goal” initiative, which began in 2015, uses measures established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to track an individual’s physical and mental “unhealthy days” over a 30-day period. The social...

By Martha Bebinger, June 19, 2020, WBUR As calls for racial justice continue on Boston streets, conversations have shifted to what’s next. That’s true inside hospitals as well, where the life-long effects of racism play out every day. “You could almost take any chronic disease in America, diabetes, hyper-tension, and there will be higher rates and worse outcomes in Black Americans,” says Dr. Rose Olson, a resident physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “That’s not due to biology or...