Health Equity (140)

Dr. Shawn Griffin is president and CEO of URAC, an accrediting body that covers virtual care and recognizes excellence in telehealth and health equity. He explains how four honorees successfully use telemedicine to make healthcare more equitable.

Dr. Omar Manejwala, chief medical officer at DarioHealth, discusses the company's experience with self-insured employers bending costs by employing digital therapeutics while simultaneously supporting individuals with chronic conditions.

Dr. Jeffrey Chen, clinical advisor at No Barrier AI, discusses the company's AI-driven, clinically trained app, which translates spoken words into multiple languages to help patients and clinicians communicate more effectively for better treatment.

Tanisha Hill, founder and president of the Digital Health for Equitable Health Alliance, discusses how the nonprofit works to improve access to digital therapeutics through advocacy and how the digital divide affects patient access.

Christina Caraballo, VP of informatics at HIMSS, describes the inclusion of maternal social determinants of health data in the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability as a crucial step towards reducing maternal mortality in underserved communities.

Asad Lilani, director of political strategy at the Access Challenge notes that while social media campaigns are effective to reach large urban audiences, radio remains a vital way to convey health information to many people in rural areas of Africa.

CIO Craig Kwiatkowski offers a look at the AI tools at the famous health system, how its AI-powered primary care app is training AI on data sets that reflect diverse populations, and how he measures the success of AI-enabled initiative.

MA plans will need to measure performance ahead of 2027 when CMS will start rewarding plans that demonstrate progress in addressing health disparities, says Anna Basevich, SVP of Enterprise Partnerships and Customer Enablement at Arcadia.

Khue Tran, chief strategy officer at Azalea Health, talks about how the company's telehealth and EHR tools integrate with partners' remote patient monitoring and chronic care management products to treat patients living in rural "care deserts."

Christopher Kunney, advocacy chair for HIMSS Georgia chapter and 2024 HIMSS Changemaker award recipient, discusses closing the gaps of health equity and creating a pipeline of clinicians from historically underserved communities.

Patients are concerned that healthcare's digital transformation could worsen existing health inequalities, especially the digital divide, says Gözde Susuzlu Briggs, programme manager for the European Patients' Forum.

Roselyn Tso, director of the Indian Health Service (IHS), discusses the agency's mission of advancing health equity for Native Americans and Alaska Natives and its progress in modernizing its health IT system.