Closing the Gender Health Gap: How Digital Technology Can Support Better Women ’s Health

The following is a guest article by Juliet Bauer, Chief Growth and Marketing Officer at Livi I’m often asked where I believe digital technology can make the biggest impact in healthcare. My answer? Women’s health. Today, women spend around a quarter of their lives in poor health or disability, compared with one fifth for men. In a health system that has historically been geared towards men, a gender health gap persists where you are more likely to receive poorer medical advice and diagnosis if you are a woman. When I look at that gap, I see a key space for digital healthcare in helping us overcome many of the obstacles that we currently face. Those obstacles, which one could summarize as being centered around needs for greater access, education and information, I believe can be overcome through digital’s very power to connect us to all three.  That’s why I was delighted to see data and digital included prominently as key areas within the recently published Women’s Health Strategy in the UK.  Expanding the reach of women’s health services One of the key challenges outlined in that document is of course the postcode lottery that has been described in the UK around women’s health services. We know If you’re a woman living in area of deprivation, you will experience unequal access to key services in pre-conception, maternity care, sexual health and the menopause, to name just a few.  At a base level, digital consulting offers the potential to increase the reach...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Digital Technology FemTech Healthcare Discrimination Juliet Bauer Livi UK Health IT Women's Health Source Type: blogs