Gaps in patient healthcare, ranging from access and affordability, to those specific to race, gender, age and beyond, are widening across the US and leading to a variety of detrimental results for people, the healthcare system, and the economy itself.
Such ongoing disparities are slowing the country’s ability to achieve population health and accounting for billions of dollars in unnecessary health care spending annually. Finding creative ways to help healthcare systems close more of these gaps quickly, especially in the low wake of the pandemic, is of growing concern to a wide swath of enterprises across industries, and Hitachi Vantara is among them.