Addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) through collaborative efforts with health plans and community-based organizations can lead to...
Explore the top challenges facing healthcare providers in 2024 and how CareLink's care coordination technology can help overcome workforce shortages,...
Community Health Worker-led interventions address health-related social needs through screening, connection to housing and food, and behavioral...
Community Health Worker-led interventions address health-related social needs through screening, connection to housing and food, and behavioral...
Marin County's Whole Person Care program utilizes CareHub platform to improve care coordination, outcomes for high-risk Medi-Cal beneficiaries and...
ACTIVATE CARE ACHIEVES SOC 2 TYPE 2 ATTESTATION, HIGHLIGHTING COMMITMENT TO SECURE CARE COORDINATION.
Innovative care coordination for health information exchanges and health improvement services that help address fragmented care in underserved...
Activate Care Welcomes Friso van Reesema as Vice President of Health Plan and Community Partnerships
Social factors & health: designing and evaluating successful interventions to address health-related social needs with community and collaboration.
How Social Care Networks Can Tackle the Implementation Hurdles of NY 1115 Medicaid Waiver Amendment with Trusted Partners and Innovation.
Create digital products and positive experiences that support people of all abilities, cultures, and preferences to enable health equity.
Advanced analytics and a person-centered, integrated data approach of identification, prioritization and segmentation, empower CHN to manage...
Equitable Community Engagement for Health Program Design, Delivery and Evaluation requires key considerations to improve health outcomes.
Georgia Brown Joins Activate Care as VP of Product & Design
How Managed Care Organizations can engage Medicaid members to address health-related social needs and improve quality metrics.
Community health navigators use technology and an SDOH intervention model to address HRSN in Medicaid populations.
How to leverage community knowledge of person-to-person interactions with community social care technology to address health related social needs.
Social determinants of health affect LGBTQ+ homelessness. Barriers are family, social support, discrimination, mental health, violence, healthcare...
A Nebraska Community Proactively Addresses Social Drivers of Health
The Value of the Community Workforce: Challenges and Strategies
Evaluating and measuring a social intervention program efficacy and key considerations for improvements.
The RISE Summit on SDOH highlighted that there is still a significant distance to travel to achieve improved health outcomes for those impacted by...
We speak with thought leaders, change-makers, and advocates who make up our social determinants of health and health equity communities.
Healthcare data impacts patient care quality. Social data and using it ethically is essential to address the root causes of poor health outcomes.
Improving women’s healthcare requires addressing access to care, legal issues, trust, and equity. Reproductive health has significant health...
Ted Quinn addresses how to transform traditional healthcare business models by delivering whole population, preventative interventions.
Meet the people who make up our incredible community. Together we help our communities overcome SDOH barriers to achieve health equity.
Meet the people who make up our incredible community. Together we help our communities overcome SDOH barriers to achieve health equity.
The Impacts of SDOH on Maternal Health and issues facing women around childbirth and how to support them achieve health equity for new mothers.
Ted Quinn addresses how to transform traditional healthcare business models by delivering whole population, preventative interventions.
Meet the people who make up our incredible community. Together we help our communities overcome SDOH barriers to achieve health equity.
Ted Quinn, our CEO and Co-Founder, was recently featured on an episode of Managed Healthcare Executive's Tuning In to the C-Suite podcast.
What is health literacy & why is it important to ensure health equity? Read the impact of low health literacy and how to improve health literacy to...
The conversation around health equity and veteran care services is transforming. Read how MCOs and communities are helping succeed in this crucial...
Meet the people who make up our incredible community. Together we help our communities overcome SDOH barriers to achieve health equity.
Social determinants of health contribute to an individual's overall health. Read to learn about the five social determinants of health and how needs...
HealthLeaders: CCO and Activate Care, are working toward a focus on preventive social care that helps individuals & families build generational...
Meet our Community Health Navigators who align clients with the services and resources they need regardless of race or socioeconomic status. Programs...
Activate Care and Kronos Health Partner to Address Social Determinants of Health, Partnership helps patients address housing, food, transportation &...
What are the leading causes of health disparities in the US? And how can communities build health equity to improve the health of its people? Find...
Imagine the impact if we proactively provided social care, rather than waiting for patients to present at the ED with SDOH-based needs or acute...
Dr. Dunbar will contribute to Activate Care’s strategy for payers, MCOs and risk-based contracting while also advising on key SDOH program metrics.
Using trusted community health workers and navigators with actionable data and personalized care plans help address factors outside of the health...
Addressing Social Determinants of Health needs data, tech, and care coordination. Community Health Navigators close siloed social and health care...
social factors, such as housing, access to transportation, food security, & safety in relationships are the drivers for as much as 90% of medical...
economic and social conditions, often referred to as social determinants of health, have a powerful impact on our health and wellness
How proactively addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) can drive better outcomes, lower healthcare costs
The healthcare industry is starting to address social determinants of health, better coordinated care is needed to truly make a difference.
Path Assist enables persons at risk for impacts from Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) to be proactively identified and served.
Recap of Activate Care and Path Assist's experience at the RISE Summit on Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) held in Nashville in March 2022.
At the RISE National conference, we hosted a roundtable to explore the question: What barriers prevent you from providing proactive SDoH...
These tools are commonly used for screening for social risk factors. They can be used by medical or social services professionals in diverse settings.
One of the most interesting things emerging right now is the abundance of community care models being stood up outside of the traditional medical...
Here's what we've learned about communities that succeed in leveraging a shared space for managing and improving social interventions at scale.
The American Rescue Plan is offering a series of cash infusions directly to local leaders. Seven experts share tips for optimizing these investments.
What might our system be like, if instead of having disconnected care between providers, we're able to wrap around support with a community care...
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and this post explores the strategies that states and organizations are adopting to improve mental and...
This National Nurses Week, we want to highlight the vital role nurses play in delivering care, promoting health equity, and making a difference.
Northern California's Paso a Paso, or Step by Step, program offers preventative education, information, and support to the entire Latino community.
Activate Care's regular round-up of funding opportunities for projects and programs serving community health needs across America.
Criminal justice, tax revenue, and social equity all stand to change significantly from recent efforts to legalize cannabis in states across the...
A CIE coordinates systems of care for patients and providers. In a CIE model, information is more accessible and can be seen for the whole person.
This article explains how CBOs operate, the primary ways healthcare and CBOs partner to deliver services to Medicaid populations, & perspectives of...
Technology is helping remove barriers to success in social work. Here are seven ways Activate Care's technology supports success in social work.
Community information exchange offers a path to better engagement, intervention, and process measurement in pursuit of better health and cost...
Being fully aware of an individual’s unique health and social challenges is essential to deliver effective, whole person care. There are several...
Equity is critical to SDOH success. Is your community information exchange strategy informed by health equity?
It’s on all of us to remove the stigma surrounding mental health and illness. Let’s all recognize how important it is to invest in better care.
Data on domestic violences points to troubling trends during the COVID-19 pandemic. What one thing will you do to help end domestic violence today?
Community information exchange is a catalyst of change. Dive into the trends that will shape SDOH interventions in the decade ahead and learn how to...
Did you know that food insecurity is one of the most prevalent health issues America faces? Amid the current pandemic, this issue is worsening...
211's have expanded their services, yet there are gaps to fill between providing information on local community resources and helping people get...
Techquity is the consideration, design, development, and implementation of technology solutions that promote, assure and potentially enhance health...
At a time when we are all experiencing a health pandemic at epic proportions, many Americans are also suffering another epidemic: opioid addiction.
We take a look at exclusive data showing how COVID-19 has changed care coordination activity.
Though this health crisis has placed a strain on healthcare systems, the nation’s health insurance companies find themselves profiting.
Considering two areas of cautious optimism as we work to address health equity - and one area of growing concern, now and after COVID-19.
A team of innovative leaders have pioneered the creation of engaged networks of healthcare and community services organizations.
Only 11% of consumers reported accessing community resources based on an electronic referral.
A former care coordinator explains five key benefits they look for when selecting tools for their day-to-day work.
Here’s what leaders in communities can do to coordinate efforts across sectors and counter the effects of structural racism.
A former care coordinator explains three game-changing tools that save time and improve engagement.
Here are resources we have shared to continue moving forward in growth together.
Use data and measurement in the SDOH field to increase the impact of what we do - and funding for our work.
Our team is supporting one another through this time. Here's what we are keeping in mind.
The incorporation of SDOH data in medical settings is growing. Social needs have a significant impact on both individual wellbeing and clinical...
Homelessness is not an intractable, inevitable problem in our communities. It is a solvable, preventable issue that can become rare, brief, and...
Hospitals and health systems have tapped their emergency services units and partner agencies to deliver more community paramedicine services to...
Nurses' impact is felt at the front lines of this pandemic - both in the hospital, caring for the critically ill, but also in the community,...
Telehealth usage by social service providers has skyrocketed. To get started with your free COVID-19 Response Platform with telehealth, join us here.
Despite challenges, community leaders we talk to are trying to do whatever they can to keep their SDOH and community health initiatives moving...
Researchers in Missouri have compiled the first-ever data on the capacity of local social services systems and 2-1-1 referral outcomes.
The data on COVID-19's impact on the social services sector is coming in. Here are three essential recommendations that will help to save lives.
This World Health Day, we honor the contribution of nurses and other health workers at the frontlines of COVID-19 response.
By leaning into our collective mission, and by understanding how care ecosystems are changing, we are finding better ways to address COVID-19 and...
National Nutrition Month is an annual nutrition education and information campaign created by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
The coronavirus outbreak will exacerbate already-difficult living conditions for people experiencing homelessness, job insecurity, and food...
One way to think differently is to incorporate internet access into our understanding of what constitutes a social determinant of health.
A couple of our leaders shared their thoughts on what our work in addressing SDOH means to them, and where we hope to make a difference in 2020.
The icon of the Civil Rights Movement left behind a legacy that renews our inspiration to improve health equity.
January is Poverty Awareness Month, a month-long initiative to raise awareness and call attention to the growth of poverty in America.
Learn how ACT.md provides data to our customers in a usable format, to help our partners demonstrate their real-world impact.
Much has changed in the world of social needs. In this post, our new Director of Community Engagement discusses how our collective focus has now...
In the Era of SDOH Care, we expect to see changes in healthcare policies focused on SDOH arise. This blog takes a look at the top 3 SDOH care...
Michael Sattler, talked with Mark Vafiades, Senior Advisor, ONC about the importance of health data interoperability, and what he sees for the...
The social determinants of health have a new champion sitting amongst the executives in healthcare organizations. Learn about the importance of an...
SDOH affects everyone, but effectively addressing them requires patient participation. Here's some insight into their perspective on SDOH screening.
Healthcare organizations and partners in social services who look to improve population health outcomes must understand what SDOH care means today to...
2020 presents a critical moment for Medicare Advantage, as health plans develop new innovations to attend to the social risk factors in the...
Spurred by value-based care incentives, healthcare providers are addressing social needs in new ways. Here are 7 ways ACT.md's customers are...
Spurred by value-based care incentives, healthcare providers are addressing social needs in new ways. Here are 7 ways ACT.md's customers are...
California hopes proper allocation of their $162.3 billion budget will help tackle some of the ongoing challenges their healthcare system faces.
MHPA is the largest Medicaid managed care annual conference, for everyone with a stake in the success of Medicaid. This year's theme: Innovation at...
The Network for Public Health Law recently shared guidance explaining how and when school nurses can share personal health information about students.
Of the 61,311 preventable drug overdoses in the country in 2017, more than 43,000 involved opioids. International Overdose Awareness Day is an annual...
The ability to quickly and efficiently screen patients for health-related social needs has been facilitated with new screening tools and assessments.
In 2019, ICD-10-CM has over 68,000 codes for diagnosing a patient's health condition.
Having certain features in a care coordination platform makes all the difference in ensuring the SDOH needs of a patient are being met as well as...
SHIEC19 promises more content on social determinants of health this year. Here are our top picks.
America's health centers provide high-quality health care, improve health outcomes, and narrow health disparities.
Our founder's personal story is a stark example of how challenging it can be to support individuals and families facing complex health and social...
With Seattle’s homeless population exceeding 12,000, this northwestern city is fighting more than ever to keep people in housing and off the street.
The goal of Housing First is to end chronic homelessness, which can cost health and social services more than $29,000 per homeless person each year.
Every week in Salt Lake City, a group of leaders from local community organizations meet to evaluate housing openings and review the list of those in...
2019 continues to be a bellwether year to watch how Medicaid’s role evolves on the ground in the 50 states and DC.
ACOs are asking the CMS to reconsider the proposed changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program that call to reduce the time ACOs have to take on...
Harvard researchers define ACO savings in terms of utilization, payer impact, and societal impact.