How do we center equity in the future of telehealth? | The TechTank Podcast

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency orders and pandemic-era flexibilities for telehealth are quickly expiring, thus ending the many conveniences of telehealth that people benefited from. Moreover, the digital divide reared its ugly head, and there are thousands of citizens—especially those on the wrong side of health equity—who do not have either broadband or an internet-enabled device to partake in this digital health care economy.

On TechTank, Samantha Lai, guest host and research analyst at the Center for Technology Innovation, is joined by Nicol Turner Lee, senior fellow and director of the Center for Technology Innovation, and Niam Yaraghi, nonresident senior fellow at the Center for Technology Innovation and assistant professor of Business Technology at the University of Miami Herbert Business School, to discuss what the future of telehealth in the United States and the takeaways of their forthcoming research paper, “The roadmap to telehealth efficacy: care, health, and digital equities.”

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TechTank is a biweekly podcast from The Brookings Institution exploring the most consequential technology issues of our time. From artificial intelligence and racial bias in algorithms, to Big Tech, the future of work, and the digital divide, TechTank takes abstract ideas and makes them accessible. Moderators Dr. Nicol Turner Lee and Darrell West speak with leading technology experts and policymakers to share new data, ideas, and policy solutions to address the challenges of our new digital world.