Health equity means increasing opportunities for everyone to live their healthiest life possible. Health systems can, and should, do more with scalable digital solutions to make progress on these measures and more:
- 2x more Black babies die before their first birthday than white babies. 3x more Black women die of pregnancy complications than white women.
- <15% of children and families living in poverty, and with a mental health care need, receive mental health services; even fewer complete treatment.
- 57% of patients have moderate-to-high risk for at least one unmet social need. These patients have higher ED and inpatient utilization.*
Prioritizing equity is not only the right thing to do, it can also yield positive financial benefits. For every 100K underserved patients, health systems are leaving up to $36M on the table by failing to act. For example, health systems can:
- Target interventions through improved data from self-service patient intake and customer relationship management tools, social and behavioral health screening, and social and population health analytics.
- Reduce unnecessary ED visits and hospitalizations with community resource referrals and direct services, such as nutrition support.
- Increase access, capacity, and revenue by offering accessible remote monitoring, on-demand behavioral health, telemental, and tele-medication assisted treatment (MAT), and non-emergency medical transportation.
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