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Health, Technology andHealthcare Disparities

M Chris Gibbons, MD, MPH

Associate Director, Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute

Asst. Professor, Medicine, Public Health and Health Informatics

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Technology & Disparities Research

Investigational Disparities Research

» Transdisicplinary, systems integrative

approaches

» Populomics

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Technology & Disparities Research

Applied Disparities Research

» Health Information Technologies

Interventions

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Research Gap and Opportunities

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³Get beyond Health Information´

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³Get away from a µone size fits all¶ approach´

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³Greater focus on technology solutions for 

specific disparities determinants´

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³Develop and evaluate technology based

solutions beyond the clinical context´

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³Understand the relationship between

Human Factors Engineering, technology

design, information architecture and

Disparities outcomes´

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³Explicate the utility of technology based,

population level approaches to disparities

prevention, mitigation and treatment´

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³Put patients into meaningful use or develop

patient oriented meaningful use criteria"

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³Enhance Patient engagement, not just

patient utilization´

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³Explore innovations in HC organization and

delivery via technology based partnerships

with nonclinical community service

providers´

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Last Word

³K nowing is not enough, we must do.´

Goethe

³We¶ve been researched to death, somethings we know, you got to do something.´

East Baltimore Resident