Racism in Medicine? Healthcare and the Digital Divide
It’s possible for health care to try to close digital gaps while ignoring underlying structural racism. But recognizing and confronting it is a better approach.
What HIV Vaccine Preparedness Teaches us about COVID Vaccine Distribution
I recently found a 1995 presentation with findings from my doctoral dissertation that are highly pertinent to COVID Vaccine trials. The study included anonymized interviews and surveys with the first high risk (#vulnerable) HIV vaccine efficacy trial participants. No space here to share the results but I thought readers would find the questions of interest:–Motivations for joining the trial (altruism,…
Digital Divide-Telehealth’s Achille’s Heel
Originally published at innovationmatch.ama-assn.org Telehealth has become a life-saving defense against COVID-19 because it enables infected individuals to be treated from home, reducing the number of contagious people circulating in the community, reducing exposure of health care workers, and preserving scarce PPE resources. Healthcare providers have transitioned to telehealth at breakneck speed, taking advantage of loosened federal and state regulations…
The FCC Learns About HealthDataMatters.org!
I had the privilege of helping to organize a visit to Cleveland by the Federal Communication Commission’s Connect2Health Task Force earlier this week. The Task Force’s “Beyond the Beltway Series” is an opportunity for FCC Commissioners to understand and promote the “transformative power of broadband technologies and next-generation communications services to improve access to health care services regardless of geography, time, distance…