The Innovation Curve Must Embed Health Equity
Setting the Landscape
Monique Smith, MD is the Founding Executive Director, Health DesignED: The Acute Care and Innovation Center at Emory University, Department of Emergency Medicine, an emergency physician at Grady Memorial Hospital, and a thought leader on design thinking in healthcare and health equity. How do we make acute care effortless and bring equity to wellbeing? Health DesignEd is addressing local and global solutions from an acute care focus perspective. Wearing these acute care lenses enables the identification of appropriate channels for adoption based on specific challenges to create solutions that address the global needs across diverse populations. Let's be intentional about embedding health equity at the center of innovation.
Key Takeaways from Thought Leaders
Kaakpema Yelpaala, CEO Calls for Data on Racial Disparity
Kaakpema "KP" Yelpaala, MPH is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of InOn Health (formerly Access.Mobile International) and a social entrepreneur focused on global health and international development. How can we sustainably change what we can’t measure? KP calls on the need for consistent data on different equity barriers. Focusing on the statistical analysis of change in the variable (e.g. population, state, or clinical) over time will help move the needle.
Tracy Dooley, MD Invests in Healthcare for the 99%
Tracy Dooley, MD is a Partner at Avestria Ventures with a strong background in the healthcare industry. How are you going to lift the tide for everything in healthcare? Dr. Dooley emphasizes when investing in new startups, it is crucial to focus on the adoption and think carefully about founders having lived the experience of solving a problem.
Anoop Raman, MD, MBA Finds the Fallacy in Assumptions
Anoop Raman, MD, MBA is the Chief Medical Officer at Absolute Care Medical Center and Pharmacy, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health. How do we design for diversity in populations? Dr. Raman is not making assumptions when designing for populations. There are multiple entry points needed into our healthcare system and to assume that a population with low resources would not utilize a patient portal is simply not correct.
Explore the Design Thinking Studio
Change-makers from various sectors gathered to design equitable tech prototypes in he healthcare industry. Innovations are not just bound to physical hardware and technology, but people as well. At the Equitable Tech Enabled Care Summit, we thought about innovation within the healthcare ecosystem while keeping all individuals in mind. We encourage you to take the lead and wake up your inner creative with your team.