HealthIT Answers June 17, 2021
The American Medical Association (AMA) (@AmerMedicalAssn) recently approved policy intended to help close the digital divide in access to telehealth services. The new policy will help ensure that minority communities, individuals residing in underserved rural and urban areas, older adults, and individuals with disabilities can reap the benefits and promise of telehealth.
At the Special Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates, physicians, residents, and medical students adopted policy to promote initiatives to strengthen digital literacy, emphasizing programs designed with and for historically minoritized and marginalized populations. The AMA believes that telehealth solution and service providers—in their design and implementation efforts—need to work directly with the populations their products are meant to help and serve. Culture, language, accessibility and digital...
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