Healthcare Disparities and Digital Health Working Group
ISfTeH Working Groups
The Healthcare Disparities and Digital Health (HDDH) Working Group provides a forum and platform to disseminate information on the application of digital health tools, best practices in telemedicine and strategies for eliminating healthcare disparities in African, African- American and Caribbean populations and healthcare disparities globally.
Planned activities
Offer webinars focusing on the unique challenges of underserved communities and populations globally, highlighted during the pandemic , and how digital health has been and can be used to close the healthcare gap.
Main
Create a working group chat for ongoing engagement of members to share experiences, ask for advice and serve as a source of support.
Identify stakeholders in respective regions to address and eradicate barriers to adoption of telemedicine/digital health.
Identify sponsors and interested parties willing to collaborate on digital health initiatives to Improve access to high quality care for historically disadvantaged communities.
Our aims
Offer in person events and webinars focusing on the unique challenges of delivering healthcare to historically underserved communities and populations globally and how digital health has been and can be used to close the healthcare gap.
Fostering ongoing engagement of members to share experiences, ask for advice and serve as a source of support.
Identify stakeholders in respective regions to address and eradicate barriers to adoption of telemedicine/digital health.
Identify sponsors and interested parties willing to collaborate on digital health initiatives to Improve access to high quality care for historically disadvantaged communities.
If you would like to join the HDDH Working Group and are already a member, please first log in and send a message expressing your interest to info@isfteh.org
