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Part Three: Converting Food Deserts to Food Swamps is Not Enough for Public Health

Many of us have heard of “food deserts”, where...

Part Two: Food Swamps – Where Healthy Choices are Drowned Out

A food desert is defined by lack of availability;...

Part One: Food Swamps Predict Obesity Rates Better Than Food Deserts in the United States

What is a Food Swamp? Food Swamps are areas...

Part Four: How Digital Technology Can Enable Health Equity

Health equity is the state where everyone has a...

Part Three: The Power of Local Data in Action

Health equity is the state where everyone has a...

Medical Economics: Area Deprivation Index Informs Policy but Misses Mark at Provider Level

From New York’s Upper West Side to Los Angeles’...

Health Equity Advantages of Dynamic Platforms

With the push for health equity solutions that work,...

Part 2: Using Data to Advance Health Equity in Your Community

Health equity is the state in which everyone has...

The Top 3 Healthcare Trends for 2023 and the Innovators Driving Them

By: Kristin Peixotto on RH Strategic https://rhstrategic.com/blog/top-3-healthcare-trends-2023-innovators-driving-them/ New approaches,...

Health Equity Deadline Quickly Approaching

With deadlines now pushed to April 28, 2023, risk-bearing...

Part 1: What is Health Equity

Health equity is the state in which everyone has...

ACOs and the Challenge of Addressing Social Determinants of Health

As CMS moves towards making health equity a key...

Leverage SDoH Technology to Improve Women’s Health

The World Health Organization (WHO) identifies gender as a...

Risk-Bearing Organizations Face Challenges in 2023

This year, risk-bearing organizations may encounter hurdles. Having the...

Platforms should support providers in value-based care models

Transitioning to value-based healthcare models comes with growing pains....

Spatially Health Announces Partnership With ACO Health Partners Using Innovative Technology: Putting Health Equity into Action

Spatially Health has announced a partnership with ACO Health...

Taking Bold Action to Close Health Disparities

Health disparities and how to address them have been...

Closing the gap on health disparities with a local approach

The Health Foundation of South Florida, the region’s largest...

How data analytics can help mental illness

Steve Leifman has made it his life’s work to...

The rise of healthcare spatial analytics

Location data is healthcare data. The most significant, underutilized...

How non-clinical social factors can be applied in practice

Over the past decade, the Centers for Medicare and...

Saving lives by leveraging data of persons

The global pandemic caused by the spread of COVID-19...

R.I.P. Zip codes

While Salesforce didn’t exactly end the use of software...

Strictly social to spatially

I spend a lot of time with healthcare executives...