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

The Rothman Index, developed by Dr. Michael Rothman and his brother Steven, is a pioneering patient acuity score designed to help clinicians recognize patient deterioration earlier and more clearly. Presented as an easily understood, color-coded graph that updates in real time, the Index displays upward and downward trends in patient condition at a glance—transforming…

Hospitals collect enormous amounts of clinical data, yet preventable patient decline remains a persistent challenge. Over the past two decades, hospitals have invested heavily in early warning scores and rapid response infrastructure, but translating data into timely, meaningful action has proven difficult. As clinicians contend with alert fatigue and increasing documentation burden, a more…

Healthcare generates enormous volumes of clinical data, yet making sense of that information in real time remains a challenge. Subtle changes in vitals, labs, and nursing assessments often precede serious events, but when that information is fragmented across the medical record, emerging risks can go unnoticed. The central challenge facing hospitals today is not…