21 Mar Innovation Digest – March 2023 Vol. 2
It’s been a busy first quarter and as usual, all my circles converge. I’ve been honored to lead a multi-stakeholder project for the Innovation and Value Initiative (IVI) addressing how we can improve health technology assessment to incorporate and advance health equity. Complex challenges are my happy space! I’ve shared the recent insights report, as well as a blog I wrote after dipping my toe in the AI content generation pool. AI might speed up our research and synthesis enterprise (as if it’s not already fast enough), but it won’t replace the need for one-on-one conversations that focus on learning and understanding the true complexity of our human experience. And, as I’ve said many times over the last 30 years, if you want to solve some of the fundamental challenges in health care, start by asking an individual, their caregiver, and family about their health journey and their lived experience. They understand economic burden, tradeoffs, resource allocation, social drivers and all the rest. We just need to make them the primary experts in the room and ask them what solutions they would find useful. Patient-led transformation is possible if we’re brave enough to hear the answers.
In this issue:
- What I Learned About Equity from ChatGPT
- No Value Without Equity
- Garbage in, Garbage out—Words of Caution on Big Data and Machine Learning in Medical Practice
- A Medicaid Benefit for Health-Related Social Needs
- The Roles of Trust and Health Literacy in Achieving Health Equity: Clinical Settings
- Game Changers 2023: 5 investments to make in the year ahead
- CDC Report Documents Disparities in Mental Health–Related ED Visits
- A seat for all: Advancing racial equity in scholarly publishing of health policy and health services research
- Can A.I. Treat Mental Illness?