The Promises and Perils of Digital Strategies in Achieving Health Equity: Workshop Summary

by Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities, The National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, et al.

Health care is in the midst of a dramatic transformation in the United States. Spurred by technological advances, economic imperatives, and governmental policies, information technologies are rapidly being applied to health care in an effort to improve access, enhance quality, and decrease costs. At the same time, the use of technologies by the consumers of health care is changing how people interact with the health care system and with health information...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309438918
• ISBN13: 9780309438919
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 82 Pages