Tackling the Digital Divide: AMCs’ Strategies to Improve Telehealth Access and Equity - September 23, 2022

This is part of the Advancing Health Equity Through Telehealth: AAMC Learning Series.

Academic health systems are integrating telehealth to meet organizational priorities, patient demand, and as a way to improve access to care for many patient populations. Targeted efforts that focus on ensuring access to care via telehealth for under-resourced communities are essential to better address patients’ needs during the COVID pandemic, and to support more equitable outcomes in the future. This webinar will highlight specific efforts that health systems are taking to eliminate the digital divide such as implementing digital health navigators, screening for the digital divide, and establishing community partnerships to support the development of digital literacy skills. Strategic efforts like these are critical to ensuring that all patients have the necessary broadband and internet access, device access, and digital literacy skills and to narrow today’s existing digital divide.

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Pablo Buitron de la Vega, MD, MSc
Boston Medical Center

Saurabh Chandra, MD, PhD
University of Mississippi Medical Center

Anthony Cheng, MD
Oregon Health and Science University

Caroline Compretta, PhD
University of Mississippi Medical Center

Katie Moore, MPH
Mass General Brigham

Jorge Rodriguez, MD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Hans VanDerSchaaf, PhD, MPA
Oregon Health and Science University