When decisions are driven by data, it matters what the data are and, more importantly, what they measure. The metric can become an organization’s mission, influence a policy’s objectives and goals, ...

Despite claiming to have prioritized health equity, the Biden administration just missed an opportunity to address poor nutrition—an important health and equity issue for older adults in particular.

The Health Insurance Disparities Index allows stakeholders to assess progress in addressing health care disparities using publicly available, validated, reported health plan quality metrics results.

The workshop summarized in this document had broad objectives, including examining a vision for core health metrics; drawing lessons from national, state, community, and organizational efforts; ...

Roughly 200 years ago, a Belgian mathematician and statistician named Adolphe Quetelet, seeking to characterize “normal man,” observed that adults’ body weight in kilograms is roughly proportional to ...

When the health care system properly incentivizes better health, payers should no longer have to encumber clinicians with the administrative hassles required to report the processes by which they ...

Body Mass Index (BMI) has long been regarded as a standard measure for assessing weight-related health risks and, more recently, determining eligibility for anti-obesity medications like GLP-1 ...

Written by Rachael Steimnitz, NAMI-NYC's Director of Workplace Mental Health, and Alayna Auerbach, NAMI-NYC's Manager of Workplace Mental Health The scarcity of high-quality randomized control trials ...

LOS ANGELES — "How are you doing?" Those four words can have a big impact on getting people healthier by addressing unmet medical needs, says Ami Parekh, M.D., Included Health's chief health officer.

If it passes, Measure 111 would make Oregon the first state in the nation with a constitutional obligation to provide access to affordable health care to all its residents, similar to the ...