Healthcare IT News October 26, 2020
Even as massive resources have been marshaled to quickly develop new tools, the pandemic still disproportionately affects the populations who may not have access to them.
During a presentation this past Friday as part of HIMSS Global Health Equity Week, a public health expert from the UN offered his thoughts on some of the challenges and opportunities for worldwide digital health improvement.
In the discussion, Health Equity: A Global Perspective, Ahmed El Saeed, thematic lead in health at the United Nations Technology Innovation Labs Programme (UNTIL), spoke with HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf.
They described impressive and quickly scaled advances in healthcare technologies since the start of the COVID-19 crisis – but decried the fact that an array of social factors...