Health Disparities

Source: HealthITAnalytics
Title: Leveraging COVID-19 Data to Eliminate Healthcare Disparities
Date: May 7, 2020
Link: https://healthitanalytics.com/news/leveraging-covid-19-data-to-eliminate-healthcare-disparities
Brief Description: COVID-19 data that has been collected during the pandemic has shed light on significant healthcare disparities, revealing poorer outcomes in minority and undeserved communities. This data gathered can help leaders reduce these disparities.
Future Implications: Reporting and analyzing this data gives state leaders a better insight into how to meet the needs of certain communities in order to help eliminate disparities.
Overall Impact: As the virus continues to disproportionately impact black and Hispanic populations in the United States, the data gathered on this issue is very useful in reducing disparities. The implementation of more testing sites and healthcare facilities in undeserved populations has led to the recognition of these disparities and can only go forward from now on to help eliminate them.
Timeliness (0-5): 3
Scope (0-5): 4
Impact (0-5): 4
Likelihood (0-5): 5
Urgency (0-5): 5