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The Impact of Language Barriers on Health Equity

The Impact of Language Barriers on Health Equity

A Spanish-speaking patient is complaining of being “intoxicado”. The non-Spanish speaking paramedics translate it as being intoxicated, while the intended meaning was “nauseated”. The patient is admitted to the hospital for a drug overdose. After being treated for this ...

Role of Deprescribing: Reducing Polypharmacy and Drug Interaction Risk

Imagine a scenario when a medication's long-term use is linked to serious adverse drug reactions or another case where there ...

Arine Accelerates Growth, Expands Board of Directors

Board additions to focus on further scale-up of Arine’s rapidly expanding health plan customer base SAN FRANCISCO, February ...

Strategies for Preventing Misprescribing in Healthcare

According to the World Health Organization, unsafe medication practices and medication errors are one of the main causes of ...

How Opioid Medication Management Can Reduce Cost of Care

Since 1999, over 760,000 people have died from drug overdoses—that’s one person every 16 minutes. Many of those drug ...

The Future of MTM: The Role of Technology and Personalized Medicine

Medication therapy management (MTM) was established in 2006, to improve therapeutic outcomes and medication safety. Since ...

Addressing the Impact of Polypharmacy on Patient Outcomes

Medication therapy is among the most common therapies to treat medical conditions but it can lead to negative outcomes, ...

From Legacy Med. Management to Intelligent Medication Optimization

How a drug reacts in the body varies from person to person. Factors such as age, weight, and kidney function all have an ...

Tech-Enabled Ways to Improve CAHPS Ratings

What’s one of the best ways to find out if a patient is getting quality care? Ask the patients themselves. Patient ...

CMS Health Equity Index

According to the American Heart Association, Black Americans experience a 45% higher rate of mortality from stroke and a 30% ...