The Risks and Rewards of Digital Health Technology in Racial Health Equity
On January 5, 2022, the Office of Science and Technology Policy published a document in the Federal Register “requesting input on how digital health technologies ...
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Reflections from Our Data Democratization Journey
We build on Part 1 of this blog series with some details of what's worked well for us in applying data democratization in our work, along with some foundational principles for promoting and advancing this important approach.
Data Democratization: The Unsung Hero of Health Equity
Data democratization has a profound intersection with racial equity, histories of trauma and data extraction. It is a crucial step in dismantling existing structures of power and returning control of data to the people that allow it to exist - and it's happening across the U.S. Here's how it works.
Why ‘Small Data’ is Key to Community Health
Any organization that works to address community-level health inequities must think seriously about how to ensure data are not only mission-aligned, but actually build the kind of shared power needed to achieve health goals. In these situations, ‘Small Data’ can be just as important — if not moreso — than the Big Data we hear about so frequently. Here's what Small Data is and isn't.
A Brave New World for Community Resource Navigation
What happens when essential needs technologies combine forces on data instead of competing for market share? A new pilot offers four promising lessons.