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SameSky Health to join White House for Cancer Moonshot Colorectal Cancer Forum
Founder and CEO Abner Mason has been invited to participate in the White House Cancer Moonshot Colorectal Cancer Forum on Friday, March 10, 2023 — part of the administration’s Cancer Moonshot initiative, aimed at reducing cancer death rates, and improving the experience for those living with and surviving cancer.
SameSky Health Achieves HITRUST Risk-Based, 2-Year Certification
SameSky Health, a cultural experience company that removes barriers to care and forms meaningful relationships to bring people to health, announced today that it has earned Certified status for information security by HITRUST. Reflecting the company’s commitment to high operational standards, the HITRUST Risk-Based, 2-Year (r2) Certified status indicates that both our hosted CultureGuide™ solution and corporate infrastructure has met key regulations as well as industry-defined requirements, with appropriate risk management.
Healthcare Finance: Managed Medicaid plans and health systems hampered from texting consumers by 30-year-old law
Health plans hire SameSky Health to create culturally appropriate content, but due to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the company can't reach members by text. "We do a lot of work with multicultural people. Most of our work is in Medicaid. For us and our work … the only way to communicate with patients is texting. [The health plans] hire us to create the content that is culturally appropriate. We're prevented from using that tool half the time or more. We don't reach the most vulnerable people." said Abner Mason, founder and CEO of SameSky Health.
Fierce Healthcare: HIMSS21: Post-pandemic virtual care policies threaten to undo low-income patients' access gains
“It’s a shame that it took a pandemic to provide low-income people with innovations in healthcare that high-income people had for 10 or 15 years and didn’t even want to use. We know people will use it, but if policy doesn’t reimburse for it [and] we go back to the old way, that would be a shame,” expresses Abner Mason, Founder and CEO of SameSky Health. Read more in Fierce Healthcare’s coverage of the HIMSS August 4, 2021 panel, “Social Determinants and its Impact on Patient Experience.”
How they did it podcast: Diversifying the US healthcare industry, and why you should write your won obituary Ft. Abner Mason
How They Did It: DiverseVC Podcast with CEO Abner Mason