health equity
At a HIMSS23 talk, panelists discussed how technology may improve health equity if the right steps are taken during the development process.
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Access helps create equity in healthcare, and technology will drive progress, according to Dr. Bobby Mukkamala, an otolaryngologist and AMA Board of Trustees member, who will speak at HIMSS23.
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What are the big themes and innovations in healthcare information and technology coming to Chicago next week? HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf shares an overview of some developments he's excited to see at the increasingly international conference and exhibition.
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Russ Hinz of Advocate Health, Stephanie Chia of University of Chicago Medicine and Susan Tolin from Chartis preview their HIMSS23 presentation on the South Side Healthy Community Organization.
According to Patty Riskind, CEO of Orbita, positive experiences with self-service chatbots can improve reliance on AI and automation.
Morehouse School of Medicine's Jasmine Agnew, the Master of Science in Health Informatics Program director, explains how IT instruction there incorporates cultural competencies that are key to acting on SDOH data.
Allison Viola, Senior Advisor for Health IT at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, explains that collected data is at times neither accurate and nor representative of racial information or demographics.
The pandemic and civil unrest in 2020 shined light on healthcare disparities, says Jasmaine McClain, principal of the Health Equity Alliance at the Health Management Academy, who discusses if companies' announced efforts to combat inequities are enough.
Nicholas Christiano Jr. and Iris Frye, co-chairs of Health Equity Policy Task Force under the HIMSS Public Policy Committee, talk about the parts played by technology, clinicians and pharmacies in coping with the social determinants of health.
IQ Solutions' communications VP Kimberly Brock explains how the public health company helps nonprofits and federal agencies grow access to care.