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TechQuity is an imperative for health and technology business: Let’s work together to achieve it

Open discussions of social justice and health inequities may be an uncommon focus within information technology science, business, and health care delivery partnerships. However, the COVID-19 pandemic—which disproportionately affected Black, indigenous, and people of color—has reinforced the need to...

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Autores principales: Clark, Cheryl R, Akdas, Yasemin, Wilkins, Consuelo H, Rhee, Kyu, Johnson, Kevin B, Bates, David W, Dankwa-Mullan, Irene
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8363781/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34157112
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocab103
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description Open discussions of social justice and health inequities may be an uncommon focus within information technology science, business, and health care delivery partnerships. However, the COVID-19 pandemic—which disproportionately affected Black, indigenous, and people of color—has reinforced the need to examine and define roles that technology partners should play to lead anti-racism efforts through our work. In our perspective piece, we describe the imperative to prioritize TechQuity—equity and social justice as a technology business strategy—through collaborating in partnerships that focus on eliminating racial and social inequities.
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spelling pubmed-83637812021-08-17 TechQuity is an imperative for health and technology business: Let’s work together to achieve it Clark, Cheryl R Akdas, Yasemin Wilkins, Consuelo H Rhee, Kyu Johnson, Kevin B Bates, David W Dankwa-Mullan, Irene J Am Med Inform Assoc Perspective Open discussions of social justice and health inequities may be an uncommon focus within information technology science, business, and health care delivery partnerships. However, the COVID-19 pandemic—which disproportionately affected Black, indigenous, and people of color—has reinforced the need to examine and define roles that technology partners should play to lead anti-racism efforts through our work. In our perspective piece, we describe the imperative to prioritize TechQuity—equity and social justice as a technology business strategy—through collaborating in partnerships that focus on eliminating racial and social inequities. Oxford University Press 2021-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8363781/ /pubmed/34157112 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocab103 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Medical Informatics Association. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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