Catalyst for Payment Reform September 14, 2021
Suzanne Delbanco speaks with Dr. Irene Dankwa-Mullan, Chief Health Equity Officer at IBM Watson Health and Deputy Chief Health Officer within the Center for AI, Research & Evaluation. As an industry physician and scientist working at the intersection of AI, health equity, and health care, Dr. Dankwa-Mullan speaks to best practices for employers interested in measuring and addressing health inequities being experienced by those in their health benefits program, building on a Health Affairs article that she co-authored in December of 2020.
Dr. Dankwa-Mullan cites definitions pioneered by Dr. Paula Bravemen for understanding what health equity and health disparities signify in the context of health care benefits. Health equity calls on stakeholders to focus on the unfair differences in health...
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