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Access to broadband could affect your healthcare

March 7, 2021 Telehealth can, theoretically, make healthcare more accessible for people when circumstances (like a pandemic) make in-person visits difficult. But thanks to the accelerated adoption of telehealth in the last 12 months, public health officials have seen a worrying trend: Some of the same limitations of in-person healthcare pervade in telehealth, too. “This increased reliance on this telehealth presents a really tough challenge, because it impacts the healthcare for minority, older, non-English speaking, less educated [adults], and it can end up exacerbating the disparities that are already existing,” says Sheba George, a sociologist at the Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles. Without overcoming the digital divide and providing broadband for more households, telehealth will remain inaccessible to the same people who have trouble accessing in-person healthcare.

Black Doctors Launch New Healthcare App - Los Angeles Sentinel

Black Doctors Launch New Healthcare App By Cora Jackson-Fossett, Staff Writer Published March 4, 2021 Dr. Bill Releford (Courtesy photo) Finding healthcare assistance is now a lot easier, thanks to the Black Doctor 247 App. The new Internet resource aims to reduce health disparities in the Black community. According to Dr. Bill Releford, the app was developed by a coalition of Black medical professionals in response to the COVID-19 crisis, which has devastated African Americans and Latino communities.  With Black Doctor 247, any person in the United States can access a Black doctor. “The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed and illuminated long-standing health disparities in the Black community. Complications from cardiovascular disease such as diabetic wounds and subsequent amputation are on this rise. The driving force behind this is that people are sheltering in place and unable to reach their doctors in a timely fashion,” explained Releford.

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