HLTH Foundation Forms Techquity for Health Coalition
Techquity for Health Coalition hopes to assimilate health equity considerations into healthcare technology innovation and data practices across the industry.
HLTH Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit of HLTH, Inc., announced the formation of the Techquity for Health Coalition, with Ipsos Healthcare as its strategic research partner. The goal of the Coalition is to assimilate health equity considerations into healthcare technology innovation and data practices across the industry.
The Coalition defines techquity as the strategic design, development, and deployment of technology to advance health equity, and encompasses the notion that technology can inhibit advancements in health equity if not implemented intentionally and inclusively. The Coalition intends to develop and gain consensus around metrics, best practices and standards to operationalize techquity in healthcare, as well as monitor industry progress.
Additionally, the Coalition simultaneously launched a broad national survey of techquity in healthcare, available here, with a call for healthcare leaders to participate. Findings from the survey will be announced at the ViVE event in Nashville on March 26-29.
