More on HIT and Health Disparities
By Josh Seidman | Popularity: 8%The Center for Children and Families at the Georgetown Health Policy Institute has just released a series of issue briefs on “Strengthening Medicaid.” I authored one of these papers, “Health Information Technology: Innovative Applications for Medicaid,” which discusses strategies that states can use to improve the quality and efficiency of Medicaid programs. The paper addresses how HIT relates to health disparities, health literacy, and the digital divide.

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December 13th, 2007 at 9:14 am
I learned about the MiVia product from the paper, and posted a link to it. I think it challenges the notion that PHRs are only for the health/Internet literate - there’s a really nice video there of a community health worker adding information to the PHR that can be used whenever a health care provider is consulted.