MedCity News October 16, 2020
Critics have faulted some technologies for potentially reinforcing racial inequality. But a Deloitte exec painted a more optimistic picture at the HLTH conference.
Technology could help close longstanding racial inequality in health. That was the message of Asif Dhar, a Deloitte executive who spoke Friday, the concluding day of the weeklong HLTH conference.
“The power of the ecosystem matched with the power of digital disruption together provides incredible components … to change what is a very unequal setting today and make historic leaps in improvements in health equity,” said Dhar, vice chairman and U.S. life sciences and health care industry leader for Deloitte.
But it won’t happen by itself. A purely consumer-based model of health care, Dhar said, runs the...
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