Dr David Eagle: Health Equity Involves More Than Medical Care
April 2nd 2023Close to 80% of what influences how long someone is going to live is where and how they live, and we need to pay more attention to that or we’re not paying attention to everything that affects their lives, explained David A. Eagle, MD, of New York Cancer & Blood Specialists.
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Dr Samyukta Mullangi Explains How Thyme Care Integrates SDOH When Personalizing Care Navigation
March 31st 2023Samyukta Mullangi, MD, MBA, oncology fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and incoming medical director at Thyme Care, spoke on how her organization’s tech platform incorporates social determinants of health (SDOH) in care navigation to ensure high quality care and treatment.
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Bridging the Gap in Health Care Inequities: Considerations in Treatment Selection, Part 1
March 30th 2023In part 1 of this 2-part series on health equity in the treatment of psoriasis, Ryan Haumschild, PharmD, and Bryan Buckley, DrPH, discuss how providers can address disparities in care, specifically with race, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds in mind.
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CVD Outcomes Investigation Highlights Need for More, Better Data on SDOH
March 29th 2023This study of the public health landscape in New York City investigated the interplay between social determinants of health (SDOH), chronic health conditions, and inequities in social factors, with a focus on cardiovascular disease (CVD).
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Samyukta Mullangi, MD, MBA, oncology fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and incoming medical director at Thyme Care, discussed how the transition to value-based care can contribute to operational and financial risks among oncology practices, and the effectiveness of care navigation platforms in addressing these concerns.
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More Needs to Be Done to Reduce Racial Disparities in Home Dialysis
March 24th 2023On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Virginia Wang, PhD, and Matthew L. Maciejewski, PhD, who talk about their recent study on racial disparities in home dialysis, and what more needs to be done to increase uptake and reduce disparities in home dialysis for non-White patients.
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Where Challenges Lie in Health Disparities, Opportunities Exist for Health Equity
March 23rd 2023In this session at AMCP 2023, speakers broke down the challenges many managed care organizations face when wanting to collect detailed data on health disparities and proffered potential strategies that may help to facilitate gathering these data to address inequitable health care access.
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Manmeet Ahluwalia, MD, MBA, chief, Solid Tumor Medical Oncology; deputy director; and chief scientific officer at Miami Cancer Institute, spoke on the short- and long-term goals for Miami Cancer Institute’s Center for Equity in Cancer Care & Research in improving minority patient enrollment in clinical trials.
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There Is Something for Everyone to Do to Improve Health Equity, Says Oncology Consultants’ Wagner
March 22nd 2023Many people believe health equity is such a big issue that there is not much an individual practice can do to address it, explained Susan Sabo-Wagner, MSN, RN, OCN, executive director of clinical strategy, Oncology Consultants of Houston.
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Investigators Highlight Disparities Evident in Skin Disease Care, Data Collection
March 19th 2023Posters presented at the American Academy of Dermatology 2023 Annual Meeting provided a snapshot of disparities in dermatology care, both in terms of geographic differences in access to care and collection of race/ethnicity data in clinical trials.
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Dermatology Data Can Direct Policy Priorities, but Gaps Reflect Inequities of Care
March 18th 2023Speakers at the American Academy of Dermatology 2023 Annual Meeting highlighted the potential of DataDerm to tell the story of dermatological care in the United States, but some also cautioned that the registry only reflects those who have access to care in the first place.
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Racial, Ethnic, Socioeconomic Disparities Identified Among Patients With Cachexia at NSCLC Diagnosis
March 15th 2023A recent study identified disparities in cachexia incidence among patients with stage IV non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) across different racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups.
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Pregnant Women With Epilepsy Experience Worse Perinatal Outcomes
March 15th 2023Findings of a meta-analysis showed that women with epilepsy were at increased odds of miscarriage, stillbirth, and maternal death, and risk of poor perinatal outcomes increased with greater use of antiseizure medication.
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Dr Manmeet Ahluwalia on Improving Genomic Testing Disparities in Oncology
March 12th 2023Manmeet Ahluwalia, MD, MBA, chief, Solid Tumor Medical Oncology; deputy director; and chief scientific officer at Miami Cancer Institute, addressed disparities in genomic testing among minority patients with cancer, as well as equitable care strategies at his organization’s Center for Equity in Cancer Care & Research.
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Examining the Impact of Language Barriers, Ethnicity on Asthma Outcomes
March 12th 2023Abstracts presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology conference examined how ethnic and language barriers in respiratory care affect Hispanic patients, with results showing the need for improved asthma care.
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Study of South African Males With Prostate Cancer Reveals Limits of Current Germline Testing
March 10th 2023The findings, published in the Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, add to the evidence that the shift to precision medicine is built on data that have not included sufficient numbers of patients of color.
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