Access & Inclusion In Heath Tech Drives Value Based Care & ROI - HLTH Foundation Techquity Winners

Описание: If you’ve ever wondered why a “great” digital health idea dies after launch, this episode is for you. Techquity is the missing step: a practical way to build with the people you serve so products actually get used.

In this HLTH Techquity Awards Special, I talk with Janna Guinen, Executive Director of the HLTH Foundation, plus award winners from PicassoMD, Pear Suite, and Attune Media Labs. We walk through three concrete case studies where teams used Techquity to design, test, and measure technology that closes real-world gaps in care instead of widening them.

Janna explains how the Techquity Awards work as a case study program: you have to show how you understood the problem with the community, who you’re serving, what you built, and what changed.

PicassoMD shows how curbside specialist consults at the point of primary care work in both affluent urban settings and rural clinics with many uninsured patients.

Pear Suite shows what happens when you give community health workers and community-based organizations proper infrastructure, billing, and data-sharing tools.

Attune Media Labs shows how an AI emotional intelligence companion can support burned-out clinicians in a low-resource environment and still beat industry benchmarks for engagement.

Key Moments:
[00:01:00] – Janna defines Techquity as innovating with everybody in mind and calls out how “universal” tech often leaves people out.
[00:03:00] – Inside the Techquity Awards application and scoring system, and why it focuses on design and process, not just outcomes
[00:06:00] – PicassoMD’s curbside consult model and the head-to-head comparison between an urban affluent clinic and a rural uninsured clinic.
[00:07:00] – Pear Suite’s care navigation platform, 600+ community health workers and doulas onboarded, 80+ organizations, and 80% of social needs gaps closed.
[00:08:00] – Attune Media Labs’ AI companion for more than 1,000 clinicians in rural Cameroon, where about 65% were burned out before they started.
[00:11:00] – Janna’s “Glow Up” for healthcare: make Techquity the default approach to innovation to protect ROI and sustainability.
[00:13:00] – Why AI’s speed can undermine thoughtful design if we ignore who is in the data and how models drift over time.
[00:15:00] – Hot news: Techquity Awards are moving to the HLTH mainstage, with applications opening in early spring.

If you care about impact in innovation, this episode gives you three blueprints to borrow and a free case study library from HLTH Foundation to dig into.

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