Health Equity (154)

Technology can give care access that helps with health equity, says Dr. Bobby Mukkamala, an otolaryngologist and AMA Board of Trustees member, who is speaking at HIMSS23.

Emily Kwan, health equity senior programmer analyst at NorthShore University HealthSystem, previews her HIMSS23 session on social determinants of health data and natural language processing technology.

Dr. Robert Murry, chief medical officer at NextGen Healthcare, previews his upcoming panel at HIMSS23 that will focus on using technology to deliver coordinated care to patients via street medicine.

Gabriel Seidman, director of policy for the Ellison Institute, discusses the Institute's efforts toward creating a nationwide enterprise architecture for health data that includes clinical, public health and social determinants data.

Equity is important to healthcare's ultimate combination of goals, says Dr. Kedar Mate, president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

Using conversational AI upstream can help address SDOH-based biases while positive chatbot self-service outcomes can increase trust in AI and automation, says Patty Riskind, Orbita CEO.

Kirsten Mathieson, policy lead at Transform Health, discusses key recommendations from the report "Closing the digital divide: More and better funding for the digital transformation of health," and reaching the goal of universal healthcare by 2030.

Theo Ahadome, chief business officer of Wellthy Therapeutics, shares how the company improves health literacy globally while finding and addressing gaps in care and why it's moving into the U.S. market to aid underserved communities.

Jasmine Agnew, director for the Master of Science in Health Informatics Program at Morehouse School of Medicine, explains why – and discusses how the school's IT instruction also factors in cultural competencies needed to make use of SDOH data.

The data collected is not always accurate or reflective of populations in terms of demographics or racial information, says Allison Viola, Senior Advisor for Health IT at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.

Jasmaine McClain, principal of the Health Equity Alliance at the Health Management Academy, discusses how COVID-19 and civil unrest in 2020 spotlighted healthcare disparities and if companies that announced efforts to narrow inequities have done so.

Iris Frye and Nicholas Christiano Jr., co-chairs of Health Equity Policy Task Force under the HIMSS Public Policy Committee, discuss the roles that technology, clinicians and pharmacies play in dealing with the social determinants of health.