Two new Scholars will explore the critical intersection of medical debt and trust in health care, joining AcademyHealth and the ABIM Foundation’s efforts to examine health system medical debt policies and practices, fill critical research gaps, and promote cultural and operational transformation within health systems.
Blog Category: Trust
2025 Building Trust Essay Contest – Accepting Submissions
We invite students and trainees of health professions to reflect on a personal experience where trust played a pivotal role in navigating these shifting values or generational dynamics.
AcademyHealth Launches New Phase of Work on Medical Debt and Trust with the ABIM Foundation
AcademyHealth and the ABIM Foundation are collaborating on a two-year initiative, Advancing Trust: A Focus on Medical Debt, which aims to address the widespread implications of health system-based medical debt policies and practices while exploring solutions to this systemic issue.
A Research Partnership to Address Medical Debt
By advancing research on trust, we aim to uncover the systemic challenges fueling medical debt and offer actionable strategies to address them.
Strengthening Trust in Health Systems Through Transparency and Innovation
At both the National Alliance Against Disparities in Patient Health and the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy, my work has determined, and is thus guided by the notion, that trust, transparency, and a focus on embedding lived experiences in socioeconomic inequity held among patients/persons and their caregivers are crucial to build and sustain a functional… Read more »