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Seun Ross, PhD, describes the goals Independence Blue Cross has for improving maternal health, diabetes, cardiovascular conditions, and behavioral health.

At the Greater Philadelphia Business Coalition on Health 2023 Wellness Summit, Seun Ross, PhD, explains the business case for achieving health equity.

12 Philadelphia-area health systems have partnered with Independence Blue Cross to take action against racial bias in medicine. They plan to remove race adjustm

Black women in the United States are three times more likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth or the postpartum year than white women. In an effort to improve maternal health equity, Independence Blue Cross has partnered with a pair of Philadelphia organizations – Cocolife.black and Cayaba Care – to offer maternal services to qualifying members.

Medical algorithms will continue to preserve the racial bias that has been historically baked into the U.S. healthcare system unless the medical field stops operationalizing race in its machine learning models, according to panelists at a recent panel hosted by the Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies. They argued algorithms should use social determinants of health as a predictor of health outcomes instead of race.