Elevance Health brings together the concepts of elevate and advance, exemplified by our bold purpose of improving the health of humanity. We are a health company dedicated to making real progress toward improving the health of the people and communities we serve.
Ideas That Explore How to Elevate and Advance Health
A Whole Health Story
Accessible Housing, Nutritious Food Can Improve Health OutcomesHealth-related social needs directly influence everyone’s health at various times in their lives. Unstable or unsafe housing, lack of transportation, and poor access to food can lead to higher rates of depression, emergency room visits, and lower quality of life.
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Continuously Improving the Healthcare Experience: Celebrating Five Years of the Sydney Health AppElevance Health introduced the Sydney Health app five years ago to make getting and paying for healthcare easier, simpler, and more personalized for members of our affiliated health plans.
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Nonprofit Program Supported by Elevance Health Foundation Grant Reduces Preterm BirthsA grant from the Elevance Health Foundation helped Creating Healthier Communities (CHC), a nonprofit that works to reduce the high rates of preterm births among Black women, launch the Black Birthing Initiative in Atlanta, Cleveland, and Detroit.
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Fee-For-Service vs Value-Based Care: What’s the Difference Between the Two Models?Fee-for-service has been the primary way to pay care providers for decades. As the healthcare industry continues to evolve, another payment and care delivery methodology has emerged: the value-based care model.
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Housing Matters to Health: How Elevance Health-Affiliated Medicaid Plans Help Members with Housing ConcernsWhile it’s widely understood that eating nutritious food and exercising regularly influences health, the tie between housing and health isn’t always as obvious. Numerous studies have shown that people who experience homelessness are much more likely to visit the emergency room and have higher rates of chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, depression, and substance use disorders.
Digitally Enabled Healthcare
Hidden in more than 30 years of healthcare data could be the cure for cancer, new therapies for mental illness, or insights into how nutrition can fend off disease. Digitally enabled healthcare integrates data, leverages artificial intelligence, and applies insights to improve healthcare. This includes care delivery, experiences, and outcomes.
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Three Ways the Whole Health Index Will Change Healthcare
Health grows from social connections, nutritious food to eat, and a place to call home. It’s also influenced by traditional medical considerations like your age, the ZIP code where you live, and preventive care such as flu vaccinations. When we consider all these factors, we get closer to measuring whole health.
In pursuit of Elevance Health’s purpose to improve the health of humanity, we built the Whole Health Index (WHI), which has the potential to change healthcare for the better. The WHI provides a scientifically valid way to measure the most significant drivers of health (including the social drivers), provides the ability to evaluate whether the actions taken to improve health are working, and represents a way for communities and the healthcare system to work more closely together to advance health equity.