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AHRQ, AMIA, and Kaiser Permanente Roundtable

March 7-8, 2011, Washington DC
K o improve the state of digital divide, we
need to understand its social, cultural,
economic and demographic underpinnings.´

-- In Search of Digital Equity:

Assessing the Geography of the Digital Divide in California

Edmund G. KPat´ Brown Institute of Public

Affairs
California State University, Los
Angeles


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£ Link technology to strategic

Strategic outcomes of a long-term
plan, initiative or program

£ Communities¶ ability to
Community leverage technology to
achieve desired outcomes

£ rganizations¶ ability to
rganization leverage technology to
achieve their mission

£ Individuals¶ ability to
Individual leverage technology to
improve overall well-being
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Bridging the digital

divide is essential to
improving health
disparities because the
social and economic
factors are interwoven

Future relationship
between technology
providers and health
providers will become
less distinct

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hose who
selfreport having a
disability, handicap,
chronic disease, or
who say they have
difficulty seeing,
hearing, walking, or
talking are less likely
than others to use a
computer, less likely
than others to use
the internet, and
less likely to have
broadband at home.
Public Policy Institute of California

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[ Social determinants are similar:
£ Geographic coverage
£ Race, ethnicity, language
£ Education, income

[ Barriers to access and utilization are common:

£ Affordability
£ Availability
£ Appropriateness
£ Community based

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£ Smartphone for disease management

£
ou ube to view procedures
£ witter for crowdsourcing
£ FaceBook for outreach
£ Google for PHR
£ iPad for patient care coordination

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£ Universal broadband: National Broadband Plan

£ Unbound access to content: Net Neutrality
£ Public interest programming: Defunding CPB
£ echnology adoption: Broadband echnology pportunity
Program

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Bridging the digital

divide is essential to
improving health
disparities because the
social and economic
factors are interwoven

Future relationship
between technology
providers and health
providers will become
less distinct

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