In November 2021, EHI hosted a Digital Health Equity Summit. More than 1,500 registrants learned how digital health tools are being used to bridge geographical issues, language barriers, and affordability gaps, and how robust individual-level data can help health organizations improve patient outcomes.

Panels explored how institutional practices and policies should change to ensure the inequities in our current health care system are not carried over as it continues to modernize.

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Summit Recordings

• Welcome & Keynote Address, Dr. LaShawn McIverDirector, Office of Minority Health, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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• Advancing Digital Health Equity for Rural & Underserved Populations: The Role of Federally Qualified Health Centers
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• Executive Interview: How SDOH Data is Changing Healthcare Delivery
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• Delivering Maternal Health Equity Through Telehealth and Digital Tools
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• Venture Capital & Health Equity: Exploring Trends in Digital Health Investments
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• Exploring Varying Modes of Digital Health: What Works Best for Your Patient Population?
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• Reimbursement for Virtual Care: A Key to Increasing Access to Healthcare for Disparate Communities
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• Driving Health Equity Through Diversity in Health Leadership (Programs, Data, and Policy)
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• EHI Board Chair Remarks & Commitment to Advancing Digital Health Equity
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• The White Male Doctor Will See You Now: Utilizing Digital Health to Increase Access to Diverse Providers
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• Addressing Inequities in Health Data Use
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• How Virtual Care is Expanding Access for Vulnerable Communities
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• Congressional Panel on Expanding Digital Health in Rural and Underserved Communities
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• Why the Internet Isn’t Enough to Close the Digital Divide: Building Solutions for All Patient Populations
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• Key Considerations When Integrating SDOH Data in Payment Models
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• Closing Keynote, Roy Weathers, CEO, CEO Action for Racial Equity
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This Executive Roundtable Panel focused on how Native Americans/Alaskan Natives are using telehealth to reach patients in resource constraint communities to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The discussion addressed the data gaps and challenges, funding sources, the existing digital divide and provider innovations in the delivery of care.

Setting up a successful social determinants of health (SDOH) program can be difficult. Knowing how to evaluate outcomes and what to do based on results is critical to achieving patient satisfaction, improved care, and ROI. A multi-layered, flexible approach can help organizations achieve this goal.

This webinar explained how to facilitate accurate identification of SDOH risks and demonstrated connecting vulnerable patient populations with much-needed services. It also covered how to design comprehensive evaluation plans. Attendees learned strategic approaches for using evaluation, outcome, and meaningful SDOH data to drive process improvement and keep SDOH initiatives relevant to the needs of the populations that they serve. 

Speakers:

Kat Istas, MPH
Program & Evaluation Strategist
American Academy of Family Physicians

Monica Simmonds
Director of Advisory Services, SDoH
LexisNexis 

Andrea Green
Manager of Healthcare Strategy
LexisNexis 

Jen Covich Bordenick
Chief Executive Officer
eHI

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What would change if patients knew the cost of care before they went to a doctor's office? 

eHI joined Axway, Zipnosis, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota to discuss partner connectivity and process challenges, managing bulk data, and using APIs to source data and deliver results to patients and providers. 

Speakers:

Ruby Raley
VP of Healthcare
Axway

Ruby Raley has a background in both technology and healthcare. Starting as a programmer, she grew into a divisional CIO before moving to healthcare and life sciences where she has held a variety of customer-facing roles. Ruby also has significant supply chain experience including a stint at Cardinal Health and a strong background working with payer and providers. Currently, Ruby applies her unique market insight and perspective to help customers solve problems and reduce costs using Axway's leading edge digital integration, API and content collaboration and healthcare solutions portfolio. Ruby holds a Master's of science in systems science from the University of West Florida.

Dr. Anders Carlson
Medical Director of Clinical Content
Zipnosis

Dr. Anders Carlson is the Medical Director of Clinical Content at Zipnosis, part of Bright Health. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School and completed residency at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, and endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism fellowship at the University of Vermont. In his previous clinical practice for over a decade at HealthPartners, he helped direct the diabetes education programs and oversaw many clinical trials focused on therapeutics and medical devices at the International Diabetes Center. He has a strong clinical and research interest in telehealth and medical devices, particularly technologies used to manage diabetes.

Jeff Ubben
Vice President, Compliance, Regulatory Affairs, Special Investigations
Chief Compliance Officer
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota

Jeff is Vice President of Compliance, Regulatory Affairs, & Special Investigations for Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota (BCBSND) and also serves as the company’s Chief Compliance Officer. In this role, Jeff oversees BCBSND’s corporate compliance and ethics program, its regulatory compliance program, its payment integrity program, its special investigations & provider audit teams, and serves as the company’s chief liaison with the North Dakota Insurance Department (NDID).

Prior to his position at BCBSND, Jeff was North Dakota’s Deputy Insurance Commissioner and also served as General Counsel for the NDID for several years. Earlier in his career, Jeff worked as a prosecutor wherein he successfully prosecuted several large cases of insurance fraud in North Dakota.  

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At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many statutory and regulatory restrictions on the use of telehealth were relaxed in order to facilitate the on-going provision of health care while in-person interactions for non-essential care were halted. Many states issued emergency orders to temporarily waive requirements that a clinician must be licensed in the same state where their patient is located at the time of care.

As many of these emergency waivers end, many patients and providers are wondering how current state-based clinician licensing systems can and will transform to meet the needs of a modern, technology-enabled health care system. On this webinar, you will hear from telehealth providers, clinician licensing experts, and patient representatives on current clinician licensing systems, challenges to providing and receiving health care across state lines, as well as how some states and clinician types are addressing these issues to facilitate cross-state telehealth and improve licensure portability.

Speakers:
 

Brian Hasselfeld, MD
Medical Director, Digital Health and Telemedicine
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Rebecca Fotsch
Director, State Advocacy & Legislative Affairs
National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN)

Lisa Robin, MLA
Chief Advocacy Officer
Federation of State Medical Boards

Heidi Ross
Director of Policy
National Organization for Rare Disorders

Catherine Pugh
Assistant Vice President, Policy
eHealth Initiative