HealthIT Answers October 25, 2022
Ali Massihi

With a heightened focus on health equity throughout our work, ONC has adopted the concept of “health equity by design.” Along those lines, health IT can, and should, be used to better identify and mitigate disparities while enhancing opportunities for underrepresented populations. In 2019, under the Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) for Health IT program, ONC funded the University of Texas at Austin’s Dell Medical School (Dell Med) to design, develop, and demonstrate enhanced patient engagement technologies for care and research, with a focus on health equity.

The Dell Med team proposed developing a patient engagement technology platform using application programming interfaces (APIs) and the same national standards for interoperability, security, and authorization being used by electronic health records, namely...

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