Washington, DC (PRWEB) March 25, 2022 NHIT Summit, the premier national conference devoted exclusively to healthcare IT and health equity, concluded its
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The National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved, a nonprofit organization geared toward advancing health equity and economic viability, recently launched a new platform aimed at building actionable insights from social determinants of health data.
The Data Fusion Center uses de-identified data, along with publicly available information, to allow greater understanding of the ways different SDOH intersect.
This can be particularly useful, said NHIT leaders, when it comes to investigating disparities in access to virtual care. When utilization metrics are combined with other nontraditional clinical data points, such as broadband access and speed, access to public transportation, the location of physical points of care such as hospitals and pharmacies, Luis Belen, NHIT CEO, told
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The telemedicine and digital health industry has a new organization, the Telehealth Equity Coalition (TEC), which seeks expanded, meaningful access to health care. Launched in February 2021, the TEC works with nonprofit, academic, and industry partners to offer a unique voice to help transform communities through equitable telehealth delivery and utilization. The Coalition is “driven to improve access to quality and affordable health care by increasing the adoption of telehealth, especially among those communities who have been left out or left behind.” Among the TEC’s initial twelve corporate members are the American Telemedicine Association, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved, and Foley & Lardner LLP.
Hims & Hers, ATA, and 10 others launch Telehealth Equity Coalition Virtual care is not a panacea, said panelists at the American Telemedicine Association s EDGE policy conference, so action must be taken to ensure no one is being left behind.
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As the novel coronavirus pandemic swept the country last year, hundreds of thousands of patients turned to telehealth in order to continue accessing care while remaining as safe as possible.
Telehealth was held up as a panacea, said Adaeze Enekwechi, a board member at the Public Health Institute and the Alliance for Health Policy, at the final installment of the American Telemedicine Association s EDGE policy conference on Tuesday.