HLTH Basis Launches ‘Techquity for Well being’ Coalition to Assist Combine Well being Fairness Requirements into Healthcare Know-how & Information Practices

– Nationwide Survey, Reside As we speak, Will Benchmark Techquity in Healthcare Trade – 

NEW YORK, Jan. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — HLTH Basis, a 501(c)3 non-profit of HLTH, Inc., at this time introduced the formation of the Techquity for Well being Coalition, with a mission to assimilate well being fairness issues into healthcare know-how innovation and knowledge practices throughout the trade. Moreover, the Coalition concurrently launched a broad nationwide survey of techquity in healthcare, obtainable right here, with a name for healthcare leaders to take part as respondents on this essential and distinctive trade benchmark.

The Coalition defines techquity because the strategic design, growth, and deployment of know-how to advance well being fairness, and encompasses the notion that know-how can inhibit developments in well being fairness if not applied deliberately and inclusively.

“Know-how and knowledge analytics provide monumental promise to enhance care entry and high quality, but additionally add new layers of consideration for well being fairness,” stated Janna Guinen, Government Director of the HLTH Basis, which established the Coalition with Ipsos Healthcare as a strategic analysis associate. “We urge healthcare leaders to take part within the techquity survey. With the continued digitization of healthcare, motion is required now to keep away from additional entrenchment of systemic inequities and outcomes disparities,” she stated.

The Coalition intends to develop and achieve consensus round metrics, finest practices and requirements to operationalize techquity in healthcare, in addition to monitor trade progress.

Findings from the survey shall be introduced on the ViVE 2023 occasion in Nashville, going down March 26 – 29. The Coalition’s analysis is supported by Amazon Net Providers, EmpiRx Well being, Epistemix, Hopelab, NTT DATA, Outcomes4Me, ResMed, Tegria, and VSP Imaginative and prescient International Innovation Heart.

Analysis efforts are guided by an Advisory Committee consisting of founding supporters and extra companions, together with Ricky Y. Choi, MD, MPH, Stanford College College of Drugs; Grace Cordovano, PhD, BCPA, Enlightening Outcomes, LLC; Burgess Harrison, MBA, Nationwide Minority Well being Affiliation; Tanisha D. Hill, MPH, Digital Well being for Equitable Well being Alliance; Pooja Mittal, DO, Well being Internet; Lorren Pettit, MS, MBA, CHIME; Kyu Rhee, MD, MPP, Aetna/CVS Well being; and Andrea Werner, MSW, Bellin Well being and Gundersen Well being Techniques.

“Techquity engages us in pondering and appearing in a means the place no particular person is left behind,” stated Andrea Werner, Chief Inhabitants Well being Officer, at Bellin Well being and Gunderson Well being System, a Coalition Companion. “Leveraging the collective information, numerous views and experiences of the Techquity for Well being Coalition will assist us go additional, quicker to stage the taking part in area and optimize know-how for the individuals we serve.”

“Techquity will not be an individual- or consumer-level downside, however moderately would require collaboration, transparency, inclusivity, and a dedication to organizational and systemic transformation,” stated Alexis Anderson, Principal, Ipsos Healthcare. “Our analysis over the subsequent 12 months, along with fielding a second survey, will embody working with the Coalition to collect case research and professional opinions with a view to set up pointers for a techquity follow healthcare,” stated Anderson.

Survey Hyperlink & Coalition Information
Take the Nationwide Techquity for Well being Survey right here. Be taught extra concerning the Techquity for Well being Coalition and presentation of findings at ViVE 2023 right here.

About HLTH Basis
The HLTH Basis promotes fairness, inclusion and alternative in healthcare, specializing in sufferers, healthcare professionals and startup founders. Its actions embody working CSweetener, a mentorship program serving to to shut the gender management hole in healthcare, and convening the Techquity for Well being Coalition to combine well being fairness issues into well being know-how innovation. The Basis additionally hosts mission-driven content material, affinity meetups and campaigns on the annual HLTH and ViVE occasions by means of its Affect Applications. The HLTH Basis is a 501(c)3 non-profit of HLTH, Inc. Extra data: hlthfoundation.org

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