Accepted for/Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Date Submitted: Apr 27, 2019
Open Peer Review Period: Apr 29, 2019 - Jun 3, 2019
Date Accepted: Oct 16, 2019
(closed for review but you can still tweet)
Back to the Future: Achieving Health Equity through Health Informatics and Digital Health
ABSTRACT
The rapid proliferation of health informatics and digital health innovations has revolutionized clinical and research practices. There is no doubt that these fields will continue to have accelerated growth and a substantial impact on population health. However, there are legitimate concerns about how these promising technological advances can lead to unintended consequences of perpetuating or even creating health and healthcare disparities for under-resourced populations. To mitigate this potential pitfall, it is imperative for the health informatics and digital health scientific communities to understand the challenges faced by disadvantaged groups inclusive of racial/ethnic minorities which hinder their achievement of ideal health. This report presents illustrative exemplars of sociotechnical, mobile health (mHealth) interventions designed with community members to address health inequities using community-engaged research approaches. We strongly encourage researchers and innovators to integrate community engagement into the development of data-driven, modernized solutions to meet the needs of every sector of society in order to truly achieve health equity for all.
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