Advancing Digital Healthcare Equity: Navigating Disparities in the Digital Age

Description:

Digital technologies hold the potential to enhance outcomes and reduce disparities, however, they can also unintentionally perpetuate or even worsen existing disparities as a result of poor planning, development, deployment, and/or maintenance of such tools and technologies. AHRQ’s National Webinar featured an expert panel of speakers who highlighted recent federal efforts to advance health and digital healthcare equity. The discussion explored some of the latest frameworks, data, and tools to inform and advance health and digital healthcare equity.

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss CMS initiatives to improve health equity data collection and use to identify areas of disparities.
• Describe how AHRQ’s evidence- and consensus-based digital health equity framework can improve outcomes while reducing disparities.
• Identify how artificial intelligence model creation can introduce bias and understand how the ASTP Health Equity by Design framework can reduce digital health technology biases and barriers to equity.

Eligible providers can earn up to 1.5 CE/CME contact hours for participating in the live webinar.

If you have questions, please contact DigitalHealthcareResearch@ahrq.hhs.gov.