ProgenyHealth recently attended a national virtual summit that brought together health plan leaders from across the health insurance industry to discuss ways to help businesses prepare and prosper from the changes that are both advancing and disrupting healthcare.
Here are Five Key Topics participants addressed:
When I joined ProgenyHealth as a Medical Director, one of the aspects of the job that I found most appealing was the ability to do meaningful outreach with other neonatologists across the country. Having taken care of many medically complex babies as an attending physician in a NICU for over eight years, I believe I have a good understanding of what physicians in the community are going through and the challenges they are facing.
Nearly half of all US adults have difficulty understanding and using health information, according to a 2004 landmark report from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. To the nurses at ProgenyHealth, health literacy is the ability of caregivers, most often the parents, whose infant(s) are in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to attain, process, and understand health information and services needed to make informed decisions.
