Where Addressing SDoH Stands Today, How Steps Like Analyzing Data Can Help

Loren McCaghy, director of consulting, health and consumer engagement and product insight at Accenture, shared the results found from his organization's latest report on how many consumers are switching their healthcare providers and insurance payers. In the interview, he touched on some of the main drivers to consumers leaving and solutions on how payer and provider groups can turn things around.

Briana Contreras, associate editor of Managed Healthcare Executive, speaks with Chris Evanguelidi, head of healthcare at Redpoint Global, for this week's episode of "Tuning In to the C-Suite" podcast. In this conversation, the two discussed the best practices for closing the healthcare experience gap and devising an effective patient engagement strategy through a more patient-centric health system.

The number of people living to 100 is growing in the U.S. and around the world. Defying the overall trend of older people having more health issues, they are not major users of healthcare.

Briana Contreras of MHE spoke with Manik Bhat, founder and CEO of Healthify – a company that works with managed care organizations to integrate social determinants of health (SDoH) into the healthcare ecosystem. Manik and Briana spoke about how the need to address SDoH has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic began and what the importance of addressing these social and economic issues are during and after the pandemic. They also touched on how SDoH contribute to the spread of viral diseases, but worsen the issues for individuals already struggling.

Medicaid managed care plans will be affected as states shed enrollees because of the end of the continuous enrollment provisions of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

Researchers who analyzed telehealth for patients at federally qualified health centers document problems with everything from broadband access to digital literacy to poor translations.