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Gabriel Garcia-Lopez of the Los Angeles LGBT Center talks about how the center is partnering with Lambda Legal to challenge anti-LGBTQ executive orders, defend access to care for its transgender patients and protect their data.

Dr. Michael Kirchhoff, chief innovation officer at Cooper University Health Care, says the health system launched a social determinants of health hackathon to help solve systemic issues faced by its patient population.

After cancer patient Rahul Mahadevan saw other patients delaying or refusing treatment because of non-clinical obstacles, he founded The WiTT Group to create a platform for patients to ask for the help they need, which also generates SDOH data.

About 42% of births in the U.S. are paid by Medicaid, which has lower rates than other insurance, says Anu Sharma, founder and CEO of the tech-enabled Millie.

Medicare Advantage insurers need to address the social determinants of health to bring down costs, says Lauren Barca, vice president of quality at 86Borders.

Zach Clark, global head of Uber Health, discusses the ride-sharing company's Veterans Health Administration–Uber Health Connect (VUHC) Initiative to improve veterans' access to care via the Veterans Transportation Program.

Dr. Maheshwara Rao Appannan of Malaysia's Ministry of Health uses HIMSS benchmarks as guidance for advancing digital health maturity with the goals of increasing health equity and economic gains while improving patient outcomes.

Boro Dropulić, executive director of Caring Cross, explains how gene and cell therapies "reprogram" the patient's own cells to stop the progression of certain cancers and genetic conditions in some situations, with remission rates of up to 92%.

Renee Broadbent, SoNE HEALTH's chief information officer, discusses a partnership initiative that aims to provide culturally sensitive care, reduce hospital stays and leverage digital tools to improve access to treatment.

Dr. Sy Saeed of the North Carolina Statewide Telepsychiatry Program talks about how the state's MOTHeRS Project has helped virtually connect high-risk pregnant women in rural areas to OB-GYN, mental health and diabetes care.

Studying data from a clinic serving high-risk Medicaid patients helped Davies Awardee Dr. Robert Jarve and his team from Corewell Health understand what's driving most of the clinic's ED utilization.

Without alignment of primary and specialty care, hospital and post-acute care, the goals of value-based care are virtually unattainable, says HSBlox operations chief Lynn Carroll.