“Designing technology infrastructure with its target communities in mind increases the chances that those groups adopt it. That, in turn, fosters greater equity in health care systems — a recurring message at last week’s Health Innovation Summit 22 from ACT-IAC.”
“The Biden administration has repeatedly called for equity considerations to be incorporated into new policies or programs, and more federal leaders are grasping what that means for their particular agencies.”
“For the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at the Department of Health and Human Services, equity is ‘the attainment of the highest level of health for all people,’ according to its Healthy People 2030 strategic refresh. One of the refresh’s metrics for success is stronger data collection and intersectional analyses for populations defined by race, ethnicity, language, geography and disability, in order to identify gaps in care and develop interventions to address them. To do that, CMMI said it would require participants in all new models to collect and report data to identify and monitor impacts on health and the reduction of disparities, while existing models are incentivized to do the same.”
“All new models will also include patients from historically underserved populations and safety net providers, such as community health centers and disproportionate share hospitals — facilities that serve a significantly disproportionate number of low-income patients and receive payments from the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services to cover care to uninsured patients…” Read the full article here.
Source: Federal health tech leaders want to extract data for greater equity – By Amelia Brust, May 10, 2022. Federal News Network.
