HIMMS Insights: Health Tech Solutions Must Account for Health Equity

Several talks and presentations at this year’s Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMMS) meeting emphasized the need to factor health equity into health technology solutions. Speakers covered topics ranging from the need to target nutrition as preventative care to the disruptive impact of artificial intelligence (AI) models.

According to , “Kay Firth-Butterfield, chief executive officer of the Centre for Trustworthy Technology, sees the potential for artificial intelligence to exacerbate disparities in healthcare. She noted 3 billion people worldwide don’t have access to internet services. She said that’s why she joined other healthcare leaders in signing a letter calling for a six-month pause on development of AI systems more powerful than ChatGPT-4.”

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(Source: Chief Healthcare Executive, April 24^th, 2023)