Improving Diversity in Healthcare

What’s happening? HHS is putting up $80M to increase diversity in health care by creating the new Public Health Informatics and Technology Workforce Development Program

Why is this important? data is the name of the game and the data HHS wants is “improving public health data collection, especially with regard to race and ethnicity data “around infection, hospitalization, and mortality rates, as well as underlying health and social vulnerabilities, that is disaggregated by race and ethnicity, age, gender, and other key variables,”

How will this be important? COVID and Black Lives Matters have shined lights on the disparity in treatment and disparity in outcomes.

N extGov | HHS Puts Up $80M to Increase Number and Diversity of Health IT Workforce