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The 5 inequalities in health digital tech can address

(5 days ago) WEBHere are five factors of health inequity that digital technologies can help address: 1. Inequitable access to trusted, reliable health information. At an individual level, misinformation, disinformation and a lack of information all serve as barriers to a …

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/09/how-digital-technologies-can-address-5-sources-of-health-inequity/

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Technology and Health Disparities - The Promises and Perils of …

(5 days ago) WEBGlobally, more people own a mobile phone than own a toothbrush, noted Kimberlydawn Wisdom, senior vice president of community health and equity and chief wellness and diversity officer in the Henry Ford Health System, in her opening keynote address at the conference. Seventy-seven percent of U.S. seniors own a cell phone or …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK373436/

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Role of Health Information Technology in Addressing Health …

(3 days ago) WEBOver the last decade, health information technology (IT) has dramatically transformed medical practice in the United States. On May 11-12, 2017, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), in partnership with the National Science Foundation and the National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved, convened a …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6589829/

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Disparities in Health Care and the Digital Divide - PMC

(3 days ago) WEBPurpose of Review. Disparities in health outcomes are a well documented and worrisome part of our health care system. These disparities persist in spite of, and are occasionally exacerbated by, new technologies that are intended to improve health care. This results in a “digital divide” in which populations that have poorer health outcomes

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8300069/

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Digital inclusion as a social determinant of health

(Just Now) WEBDigital inclusion refers to the activities necessary to ensure equitable access to and use of information and communication technologies, including (1) affordable broadband Internet service, (2

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-021-00413-8

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Health Disparities, Clinical Trials, and the Digital Divide

(6 days ago) WEBGrant Support: This work was supported in part by the Mayo Clinic Women’s Health Research Center and the Mayo Clinic Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) …

https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(23)00198-2/fulltext

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Health data poverty: an assailable barrier to equitable digital …

(3 days ago) WEBData-driven digital health technologies have the power to transform health care. If these tools could be sustainably delivered at scale, they might have the potential to provide everyone, everywhere, with equitable access to expert-level care, narrowing the global health and wellbeing gap. Conversely, it is highly possible that these …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(20)30317-4/fulltext

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How can we stop digital technologies from worsening existing …

(Just Now) WEBThe current situation risks the formation of ‘digital divides’ — gaps between individuals, communities or large populations who do or do not have access to digital technologies — that

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41582-023-00830-1

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Promoting racial equity in digital health: applying a cross

(Just Now) WEBGolden et al. posit that while medical technology continues to advance, actions at multiple levels are required to dismantle structural racism and address healthcare disparities 5.In examining the

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-023-00747-5

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Advancing Health Equity, Eliminating Health Disparities, and …

(7 days ago) WEBAdvancing health equity and eliminating health disparities have been and continue to be critical factors to PCD in addressing these topic areas. Healthy People 2020 defines health equity as the attainment of the highest level of health for all people (2). According to Healthy People 2020, “Achieving health equity requires valuing everyone

https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2021/21_0264.htm

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Bridging Health Disparities With Culturally Competent …

(7 days ago) WEBThe agency’s commitment to reducing disparities was reflected in its 2024 Medicare Advantage and Part D Final Rule finalized last spring and bolstered late last year with the addition of billing

https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/bridging-health-disparities-culturally-competent-technology

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Data and Technology Can Help Us Make Progress on COVID …

(9 days ago) WEBThe COVID-19 pandemic is the latest chapter in the “Tale of Two Health Systems” saga that has played out in the U.S. during every public health crisis dating back centuries.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/data-and-technology-can-help-us-make-progress-on-covid-inequities/

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Back to the Future: Achieving Health Equity Through Health …

(3 days ago) WEBThe Divided Digital Revolution. With each hour of the day, hundreds of novel health informatics strategies, telemedicine devices, wearables, and other digital technologies are released at lightning speeds, which has amplified into a US $80 billion industry with a projected increase to over US $500 billion by 2020 [12,13].Mobile health …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6996775/

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Leveraging innovations in health tech to mitigate health care …

(8 days ago) WEBThe current divide in healthcare. Health inequalities are a longstanding problem. Minority populations, such as lower socio-economic groups, disabled individuals, and those with certain health conditions, often bear the brunt. In practice, they often face reduced access to healthcare, a lower level of care received, and below-average health

https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/leveraging-innovations-in-health-tech-to-mitigate-health-care-disparities/172914/

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The 2022 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: We …

(9 days ago) WEBOral health: Approximately one in seven people were unable to get or delayed getting needed dental care due to cost in 2019, a rate far higher than the percentage of people unable to get or get needed medical care due to cost. The data also indicate that access to oral healthcare and outcomes has improved for children, not adults.

https://www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/2022-national-healthcare-disparities-report.html

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Understanding and Mitigating Health Inequities — Past, Current, …

(Just Now) WEBOver the past half-century, understanding of health and health care disparities in the United States — including underlying social, clinical, and system-level contributors — has increased. Yet

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2008628

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Technologies and Health Inequities Annual Reviews

(Just Now) WEBHealth technologies aim to improve individual and population health, but they may also exacerbate health disparities. Focusing on the specific design features of technologies, their availability, and their use, we present a conceptual framework to examine how health technologies may benefit some groups more than others by combining the theory of …

https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-soc-121919-054802

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Looking back and moving forward: Addressing health inequities …

(2 days ago) WEBWe will likely look back on 2020 as a turning point. The pandemic put a spotlight on existing societal issues, accelerated the pace of change in others, and created some new ones too. For example, concerns about inequalities in health by income and race are not new, but they became more apparent to a larger number of people during 2020. …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanam/article/PIIS2667-193X(22)00049-7/fulltext

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2021 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report [Internet].

(5 days ago) WEBHealthcare delivery is not experienced equitably by all populations. A healthcare disparity is a difference between population groups in the way they access, experience, and receive healthcare. Factors that influence healthcare disparities include social, economic, environmental, and other disadvantages,1, 2 some of which are explored in this report.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK578532/

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25 Using Artificial Intelligence to Address Health Disparities

(2 days ago) WEBAdvancements in technologies have continued to transform the health care industry (Viswanath & Kreuter, 2007).Indeed, scholars have acknowledged that various technologies can help address health disparities (Gibbons et al., 2011), which are systematic differences in health that are experienced by historically marginalized …

https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/58202/chapter/482139923

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Health Equity in Healthy People 2030

(1 days ago) WEBThis focus is reflected in one of the overarching goals of Healthy People 2030: “Eliminate health disparities, achieve health equity, and attain health literacy to improve the health and well-being of all.”. Healthy People 2030’s emphasis on health equity is closely tied to its focus on health literacy and social determinants of health.

https://health.gov/healthypeople/priority-areas/health-equity-healthy-people-2030

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Impacts of the Internet on Health Inequality and Healthcare …

(3 days ago) WEBThe rich and comprehensive data allow us to fully exploit the variations across countries and over time in the estimations. It provides a useful tool for future research investigating longstanding health disparities and the means to leverage new technology to narrow the gaps in public health. The rest of the paper is organized as follows.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9218541/

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Reducing Disparities in Health Care AMA

(7 days ago) WEBHealth care disparities occur in the context of broader inequality. There are many sources across health systems, providers, patients and managers that contribute to disparities. Bias, stereotyping, prejudice and clinical uncertainty contribute to disparities. A small number of studies suggest that racial and ethnic minority patients are more

https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/health-equity/reducing-disparities-health-care

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