MedCity News April 8, 2021
If we don’t prioritize solutions now, the healthcare digital divide may present more widespread national and international challenges.
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, media reporting has focused on how the pandemic is accelerating a new era of healthcare, utilizing emerging technologies like AI, IoT and telemedicine to make the industry more efficient, intelligent and responsive. While it is vital that the industry continues to explore solutions enabled by these technologies, this narrative overlooks an important barrier: the issue of access.
A recent study by the National Poll on Healthy Aging highlighted the scale of the “digital exclusion” challenge facing the healthcare industry, revealing that nearly half (45 percent) of adults over 65 have not created patient portal accounts to access their...
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