Accelerating Health Equity Series Kick-Off

Introducing Verizon’s Accelerating Health Equity Series hosted by Robin Goldsmith, Sr Principal of Verizon Healthcare Strategy and Innovation Group and Courtney Lee Schoon, Program Manager for Verizon’s Forward for Good Program. This series highlights the stories and company missions of Health Equity winners from Verizon’s 2023 Forward for Good Accelerator program.

Recent Episodes

Emergency departments across the U.S. are under unprecedented strain, with overcrowding, staffing shortages, and inpatient bed constraints converging into a throughput crisis. The American Hospital Association reports that hospital capacity and workforce growth have lagged, intensifying delays from arrival to disposition. At the same time, advances in artificial intelligence are moving from experimental to operational—raising…

Episode 4 of The Future of Patient Monitoring takes a step back from infrastructure and innovation to explore something deeper: the people behind the technology—and what they’ve learned through years of building smarter systems. Part of the Health and Life Sciences at the Edge podcast series, this conversation is led by Intel’s Kaeli Tully,…

As hospitals across the U.S. shorten length of stay and push more recovery into the home, families are increasingly left to manage complex care needs without formal training or support. Roughly one in five patients with chronic conditions like COPD or congestive heart failure is readmitted within 30 days—a cycle that costs the healthcare…