Language services are essential for health equity and good patient health outcomes, but recent executive actions threaten to undermine this vital resource. In the United States, there are an estimated ...

This article presents challenges and solutions regarding health care–focused large language models (LLMs) and summarizes key recommendations from major regulatory and governance bodies for LLM ...

Access to healthcare is a fundamental human right, yet disparities persist globally. Digital health technologies hold transformative potential to bridge these gaps by enabling more equitable delivery ...

How can health care organizations advance health equity when political, legal, and cultural forces are making the work more ...

Promote the idea that health equity is a core competency of governance (for more information, see Non-Profit Hospital Governance: Overview on Practical Law). Explain that governing bodies that take ...

A new nonprofit has been launched with a focus on advancing language access and equity in northeast Indiana. The Language Access Lab Inc. is a Petra Solutions LLC initiative that is partially ...

Building and staffing health systems have historically relied on supply-and-demand metrics: determine the health profile of a community and hire the appropriate staff to match the care needs of the ...

Accelerating private equity “roll-up” consolidation can evade antitrust thresholds, and post-acquisition staffing reductions have been associated with higher hospital-acquired conditions, falls, ...

The Joint Commission’s new National Performance Goals take effect in January 2026 and language access, once viewed as a patient experience issue, is emerging as a core safety and accreditation ...

There are more than 200 languages spoken at home in California. But those with the largest proportion of speakers who don’t speak English very well are all Asian languages: Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese ...