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8/7/2019 AHRQ Presentation, Tessie Guillermo

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Can Health IT Promote Health Equity andPatient Centered Care?

AHRQ, AMIA, and Kaiser Permanente Roundtable

March 7-8, 2011, Washington DC


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To improve the state of digital divide, weneed to understand its social, cultural,economic and demographic underpinnings.

-- In Search of Digital Equity:Assessing the Geography of the Digital Divide in California

Edmund G. Pat Brown Institute of PublicAffairs

California State University, LosAngeles


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Community Technology Framework

Link technology to strategicoutcomes of a long-termplan, initiative or program

Strategic

Strategic

Communities ability to

leverage technology toachieve desired outcomes

Community

Community

Organizations ability toleverage technology to

achieve their mission

Organization

Organization

Individual Individuals ability to

leverage technology to

improve overall well-being


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Connecting the Dots

Bridging the digital

divide is essential to

improving health

disparities because the

social and economic

factors are interwoven

Future relationship

between technology

providers and healthproviders will become

less distinct


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Access to technology is a pre-requisite to HIT

Those whoselfreport having adisability, handicap,chronic disease, orwho say they have

difficulty seeing,hearing, walking, ortalking are less likelythan others to use acomputer, less likelythan others to usethe internet, andless likely to havebroadband at home.

Public Policy Institute of California


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Digital Divide and HealthEquity

Social determinants are similar: Geographic coverage

Race, ethnicity, language

Education, income

Barriers to access and utilization are common:

Affordability

Availability

Appropriateness

Community based


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New Technology/New Healthcare

Smartphone for disease management

YouTube to view procedures

Twitter for crowdsourcing

FaceBook for outreach Google for PHR

iPad for patient care coordination


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Tech/Telecom Companies


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Healthcare Companies


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Healthcare Innovators

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Technology Policy = Healthcare Policy

Universal broadband: National Broadband Plan

Unbound access to content: Net Neutrality

Public interest programming: Defunding CPB

Technology adoption: Broadband Technology OpportunityProgram


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community

owned

wireless

networks



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Youth Radio Eats is a food journal produced by downtown Oakland's

Youth Radio interns, who work hands-on to make healthy anddelicious food, research community food related actions, and

explore and produce information about food from a youth

perspective. Youth Radio Eats also works with community partners

to provide advocacy, drive policy change, and create lasting

community changes around how the environment influences healthy

lifestyles.


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Cell phone for

pre-natal

education


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Connecting the Dots

Bridging the digital

divide is essential to

improving health

disparities because the

social and economic

factors are interwoven

Future relationship

between technology

providers and healthproviders will become

less distinct

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