This activity will explore how existing health care technology innovations can improve health equity for underserved patients and will examine the changing landscape of provider coverage and reimbursement. It will discuss anticipated solutions for vulnerable individuals (including Medicare and Medicaid dual-eligible individuals) and examine why certain telehealth programs have failed in the past. New approaches to benefit coverage for telehealth-related expenses will also be discussed, along with the future trends and essential elements associated with shifting to quality value-based care that can lead to improved patient satisfaction and outcomes, reduced health care costs and increased levels of health equity.

This activity will focus on the connection between SDoH and how they may impact access to care, treatment and health outcomes for children with rare and CMC. Learners will be provided with strategies and resources that can address these negative effects. The importance of access to personalized care that they require to live their healthiest lives will be addressed.

This activity will highlight new updates in our understanding of how diabesity develops and describe the negative physiologic effects of this disease on multiple body systems, notably the cardiovascular and renal systems. Optimal treatments for diabesity will be identified, along with an overview of the health burden of diabesity related to long-term complications and reduced function, quality of life and life expectancy. 

In this activity, participants will learn about the timeline for UNOS’s implementation of this flexible, points-based approach for all organ systems; how continuous distribution differs from the current system; and how this program is expected to benefit those who await organ transplant and impact future organ-allocation policy.