Unlocking Health Equity through Digital Health Technologies

By HEOR Staff Writer

August 15, 2023

Exciting insights from ISPOR’s latest article, “The Impact of Digital Health Technologies on Health Equity: Designing Research to Capture Patient-Reported Outcomes”. The article explores the potential of ePROs/ePROMs in capturing crucial health data, especially from underserved populations. It highlights the need for future research to understand health equity-related data needs and the design of these digital tools.

This could be a game-changer in identifying and addressing social determinants of health, reducing disparities in healthcare delivery, and understanding diseases from a patient’s perspective.

 

For more information follow the link below

Reference url

Recent Posts

cannabis regulatory exploitation
Exposing Cannabis Regulatory Exploitation in Portugal’s Medicinal Sector

By João L. Carapinha

June 30, 2026

Portugal’s medicines regulator INFARMED has been shaken by a major case of cannabis regulatory exploitation in which criminal networks weaponised medicinal cannabis licences to traffic drugs on an industrial scale. Insufficient inspectors, rapid sector growth and the recruitment of former agency ...
FDA Approval Lumvoa Therapeutics
FDA Approval Lumvoa Therapeutics Redefines Treatment Landscape for Thyroid Eye Disease

By João L. Carapinha

June 29, 2026

The FDA Approval Lumvoa Therapeutics delivers the first full insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF-1R) antagonist for thyroid eye disease (TED), a rare autoimmune condition that triggers orbital inflammation, proptosis, diplopia, pain, and risk of vision loss.
HIV Treatment Access
Public-Private Partnership Enhances HIV Treatment Access Through Innovative Drug Integration

By João L. Carapinha

June 29, 2026

A new agreement between Merck and the ADAP Crisis Task Force significantly advances HIV Treatment Access by integrating the newly approved single-tablet regimen IDVYNSO™ (doravirine/islatravir) into state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs that served more than 250,000 people with HIV in 2024.