Digital Health Technologies for More Equitable Health Systems: A Discussion Paper (added October 2020)
Digital health solutions may further entrench the barriers to health care that marginalized and under-served groups such as the Indigenous, homeless or under-housed, already experience.
In response, researchers from Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health Systems Solutions and Virtual Care and the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics hosted a stakeholder dialogue addressing the links between digital health, virtual care and health equity, to develop recommendations for providers, healthcare leaders and policy-makers when designing and implementing virtual care to address this “digital divide”.