{"id":235,"date":"2015-04-22T02:51:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T06:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samsungnewsroom-staging.elasticbeanstalk.com\/us\/?p=235"},"modified":"2019-06-18T22:53:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T02:53:55","slug":"new-report-finds-children-in-poverty-continue-to-face-challenges-in-getting-needed-medical-care-regardless-of-insurance-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/new-report-finds-children-in-poverty-continue-to-face-challenges-in-getting-needed-medical-care-regardless-of-insurance-status\/","title":{"rendered":"New Report Finds  Children in Poverty Continue To Face  Challenges in Getting Needed Medical Care \u2013 Regardless of Insurance Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"press-release-open\"><strong>NEW YORK, NY &#8211; April 22, 2015\u2014<\/strong> <\/span>In a new white paper released today by the\u00a0<strong>Samsung Center for\u00a0Innovation at Children\u2019s Health Fund (SCICHF)<\/strong>, researchers examined how technology can be\u00a0leveraged to improve the health of children in poverty across the United States. \u201cThe Growing\u00a0Health Gap for Children in Poverty: Will the Health Technology Revolution Level the Playing\u00a0Field?\u201d explores the need for, the potential of, and the challenges to expanding the application\u00a0and impact of innovative healthcare technology to ensure the provision of health care to all\u00a0children.<\/p>\n<p>The Samsung Innovation Center at Children\u2019s Health Fund\u00a0was established to provide\u00a0information and analysis about how advanced technology can help level the playing field and\u00a0assure that all children have access to timely and quality health care. In addition to the fact that\u00a0about 20 percent of children live in poverty, here are some of the barriers to timely and\u00a0appropriate health care that children face:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At least \u00a015 \u2013 20 million children live in areas federally defined as \u00a0lacking in health professionals ;<\/li>\n<li>Even with the Affordable Care Act in place, at least 5.5 million children still lack health\u00a0insurance; and,<\/li>\n<li>Some 3 million children miss medical appointments because affordable transportation\u00a0to medical facilities is not available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cFor nearly 30 years, Children\u2019s Health Fund has treated underserved children in communities\u00a0throughout the country. And during that time, we have seen many advances in medical\u00a0technology, from electronic medical records \u2013 which Children\u2019s Health Fund first pioneered as a\u00a0space-saving measure on mobile clinics in the 1980s \u2013 to advanced telehealth measures in use\u00a0today. But often those who can most benefit from this technology are the last to receive access\u00a0to it,\u201d<strong> said Dr. Irwin Redlener, president and co-founder of Children\u2019s Health Fund and director\u00a0of \u00a0SCICHF.<\/strong> \u201cThe goal of this white paper is to drive home the message that technology is\u00a0important for everyone, and lays out the vital next steps we must take in order to achieve\u00a0healthcare parity for all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Growing Health Gap for Children in Poverty\u201d expands upon the ways technology can be\u00a0used to drive major change for those in need and seeks to identify the current technology\u00a0opportunities as well as provide insights on the unique healthcare sensitivities that\u00a0underserved children face. \u00a0Through months of in-depth research, the experts at SCICHF\u00a0provided five recommendations to ensure healthcare technology gives every child a chance at a\u00a0healthy future.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>New technologies must be designed for or adapted to the needs of children.<\/li>\n<li>The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should create a special fund\u00a0to incentivize the development of technologies to improve accessibility and quality of\u00a0health care for medically underserved children.<\/li>\n<li>Training curricula for health sciences students and providers should include education\u00a0regarding the effective use of technology in improving health care.<\/li>\n<li>Efforts should be made to ensure that families full understand how new technologies\u00a0can improve the quality and availability of health information relevant to their\u00a0children.<\/li>\n<li>Innovative ways to make health care more accessible and efficient, especially for underserved children, must be financially supported.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The paper was released by\u00a0<strong>The Samsung Innovation Center at Children\u2019s Health Fund<\/strong>\u00a0which\u00a0was established in 2014 to provide information and analysis about how advanced technology\u00a0can help level the playing field and assure that all children have access to timely and quality\u00a0health care.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung Electronics America has committed $2 million dollars to Children\u2019s Health Fund to\u00a0establish the SCICHF, which is designed to call attention to challenges where advanced\u00a0technology can be developed and deployed to reduce medical access disparities for\u00a0economically disadvantaged youth across the country. In addition, \u00a0SCICHF will develop and\u00a0deploy a state-of-the-art mobile health clinic that incorporates a host of highly advanced\u00a0telehealth equipment and other innovative technologies.<\/p>\n<p>To access full coverage of \u201cThe Growing Health Gap for Children in Poverty: Will the Health Technology Revolution Level the Playing Field?\u201d can be found here . For more information regarding Children\u2019s Health Fund and the Samsung Innovation Center at Children\u2019s\u00a0Health Fund, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrenshealthfund.org\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"tb f156\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Children\u2019s Health Fund<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6><span class=\"tx\">Founded in 1987 by singer\/songwriter Paul Simon and pediatrician\/advocate Irwin Redlener,<\/span><span class=\"tx\">M.D., Children&#8217;s Health Fund is the nation&#8217;s leading pediatric provider of mobile-based health<\/span><span class=\"tx\">care for homeless and low-income children and their families. Its mission is to bring health care\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx\">directly to those in need through the development and support of innovative medical programs,<\/span><span class=\"tx\">response to public health crises, and the promotion of guaranteed access to health care for all <\/span><span class=\"tx\">children. Children\u2019s Health Fund currently has 50 mobile clinics serving hundreds of locations in\u00a0<span class=\"tx\">17 states and the District of Columbia. Over the past 25 years, the organization has treated over\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"tx\">350,000 disadvantaged children.<\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, NY &#8211; April 22, 2015\u2014 In a new white paper released today by the\u00a0Samsung Center for\u00a0Innovation at Children\u2019s Health Fund (SCICHF), researchers examined how technology can be\u00a0leveraged to improve the health of children in poverty across the United States. \u201cThe Growing\u00a0Health Gap for Children in Poverty: Will the Health Technology Revolution Level the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":15058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17565,29719],"tags":[234,38,832,37],"blue-badge":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate-communities","category-corporate","tag-health-and-wellness","tag-news-release","tag-public-affairs","tag-social-responsibility"],"acf":{"turn_off_retargeting":false},"fimg_mobile_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/14151232\/samsung-logo.png","fimg_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/14151232\/samsung-logo.png","primary_category":{"term_id":17565,"name":"Communities","slug":"corporate-communities","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":17565,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":29719,"count":143,"filter":"raw","term_link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/category\/corporate\/corporate-communities\/","term_path":"corporate\/corporate-communities"},"badge":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"blue-badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blue-badge?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}