Dive into the Digital Divide, both as an effect and a cause. Let’s look expansively at how our digital divide was created, characterize the patient experience across employment/income, primary language, age, geographies, etc and the consequences on direct patient care, and then zoom out to explore the compounding consequences of that digital divide on scaling technologies, such as in the representation of these populations in training data for algorithmic tools. This both sets the stage for systems to think about how to customize their potential digital health expansion plan to their respective patient populations, as well as offer tangible precautions around how this feeds into the biases towards poorer performance in algorithms that may be leveraged against the same populations.
The Digital Divide- Histories of Exclusion and Barriers Beyond Connectivity
July
09,
2024
Event Description
Presenter:
Ajeet Singh
Public Health Trained Physician and Informaticist
Ajeet Singh is a public health trained physician and informaticist interested in the role technologies play in facilitating health care, and the wider set of power structures they influence. He is committed to exploring methods for increasing our collective agency in building technologies that address community needs and enable democratic forms of governance. Ajeet brings twelve years of experience working across academic, regulatory, entrepreneurial, and international operational contexts to understand data ecosystems as they relate to individual and population health.
