Health Technology for All: An Equity-Based Paradigm Shift Opportunity.

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The health of the U.S. population faces a seemingly intractable shortfall in the prospects for large numbers of people, including and especially people of color, long confronting the consequences of structural racism. Yet, rather than focus on the equitable cultivation of health and wellness, policies and practices most drawing attention and priority of U.S. health care and related organizations have been those of cost and efficiency. Without equity as an intentional foundation, incentives toward cost and efficiency have exacerbated marginalization and resulted in resource optimization for only a select subset of the population—deepening disparities and, paradoxically, ballooning national cost and inefficiency.

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