Race, social environment, sexual orientation, religion and gender identity interact to create health inequity.
How can technology overcome these problems?
Dynamic breakout sessions will explore how new IT and digital standards can fight inequities to help patients of all backgrounds.
Session 1: Health Equity
July 12, 1:00pm EST
Clinical, Community and Advocacy Stakeholders Committed to Action: Tactics to raise awareness, strengthen leadership, improve health outcomes for underserved populations while integrating cultural balance and data strategies.
How do you prioritize strategies to advance health equity? Underserved populations and communities do not have a voice in the conversation about what they want and need from health care. Many organizations are doing good work, but it’s not penetrating the communities they want to serve. This session will examine how organizations are looking to connect with underserved communities, and how to design solutions that provide whole-person care.
During this session, participants will:
- Identify factors that contribute to the idea of care for the “whole person.”
- Assess new tools and techniques for effectively engaging individuals, families and communities.
- Compare and contrast issues surrounding specific clinical protocols, like colorectal or breast cancer screening, that can engage the community.
- Dawn Johnson, MSN, RN, CEO (DHJ Services)
- Jasmaine McClain, PhD, Principal (The Health Management Academy)
- Tomi Ogundimu, VP (The Health Management Academy)
- Stephen Rosenthal, SVP (Montefiore Health System)
- Jessica Subramamian (Guardant Health)
Session 2: Technology Solutions
July 12, 3:10pm EST
Enabling Health Equity Through Technology and Enterprise Growth: Beyond “screen and connect” strategies
How do we assess the effectiveness of digital health solutions? How do we balance the need to reach patients with the push for privacy, standardization and interoperability? Technology needs to be fully embedded in the care team’s workflow. For some populations, this might mean also engaging patients’ families and caregivers. During this session, you’ll hear from organizations that are leveraging technology to meet the needs of underserved populations while prioritizing provider adoption.
During this session, participants will:
- Expand their understanding of the strengths and limitations of technological solutions.
- Examine “appropriate access” from multiple perspectives.
- Review emerging technologies and functionalities that encourage patient and provider empowerment.
- Identify technologies that can improve digital literacy and reduce disparity.
- Review examples of technology solutions.
- Kerry Amato (MDisrupt)
- Aditi Joshi, MD (MDisrupt)
- Jaffer Traish (Find Help)
- Thomas Tsang, MD (Valera Health)
Session 3: Public Policy
July 13, 11:30am EST
Influencing Public Policy: Building commitment to advancing health equity by supporting healthy behaviors and care delivery that promote equitable access to care.
As we aim to integrate health equity into care delivery models, what is the trajectory for creating public health policy? How do we ensure that public policy has a place in the implementation of new technologies? How do we balance the needs of regulators, payers and patients? Regulators play role as they attempt to address reading and digital literacy gaps. Public policy directs budgets and resources. Payers can drive priorities through provider reimbursement. Patients want a choice about technology and data use, which can put them at odds with regulators and payers.
During this session, participants will:
- Understand how social factors (e.g., race, gender, ethnicity) frame policies to achieve health equity.
- Discover policies that shape standardization, interoperability and data use.
- Analyze how organizations can advocate for downstream interventions such as technology, implementation, budgeting and community engagement.
- Hope Glassberg, President (HG Consulting)
- Elisabeth Myers (Deputy Director, Office of Policy, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC))
Session 4: Data and Analytics
July 13, 1:45pm EST
Telling a Story with Data to Improve Health Equity: Using data to work effectively toward health equity.
We should understand how geographic considerations affect population and community needs. How do we use data to inform, monitor and evaluate digital and social solutions and interventions? What frameworks should help we models that reinforce or promote communication, care planning and delivery? Data inform strategy and enable monitoring of interventions and evaluation of their impact over time. This session will examine insights and tactics for leveraging data to advance engagement and model design.
During this session, participants will:
- Discover how organizations are collaborating to promote data collection and health for underserved and high-risk populations.
- Review recommended frameworks on how to build effective data structures that promote care for understand and high-risk populations.
- Understand the intersection between clinical and community data to help organizations build capacity for health equity.
- Ryan Bosch, CEO (Socially Determined)
- Jillian Rose LCSW, MPH, Vice President, Community Engagement, Diversity and Research (Hospital for Special Surgery)
- Khushboo Shah, Director of Data Solutions, (Innovative Management Solutions)
- Julia Skapik, MD, CMIO (National Association of Community Health Centers)
Track Leads
Shara Cohen, JD
Chief Executive Officer
Carallel
Vanessa Guzman, MS
Chief Executive Officer
SmartRise Health
