Health equity is a long-term concern in healthcare delivery. The 2001 Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report entitled “Crossing the quality chasm: A new health system for the 21st century” listed health equity as one of its six aims. Health informatics has often focused on aims set out in this IOM Report. Yet, healthcare equity has received less attention until more recent efforts, such as the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) 2019 special issue on health equity, the digital health equity-themes Workshop on Interactive Systems in Healthcare (WISH) Symposium at the AMIA 2021 conference, the AMIA Social Determinants of Health Discussion Forum, and the recently-launched Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD) Program.
Here we will foster a network of informaticists concerned with health and healthcare equity, and catalyze research and professional practice to advance equity in the discipline.
Community Email: HealthcareEquity@connect.amia.org
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