The Medical Futurist | 14 June 2022 – The question any member of The Medical Futurist team faces most often is this. Will digital health tools help solve the health inequity issues? If you are not into long articles, here is the short answer: they might, but not right now and not obviously.
Based on the ever-growing amount of quality data on the subject, two trends are present. In some cases, in some countries, in some, traditionally underrepresented groups of developed societies, digital health tools are indeed closing some gaps by providing opportunities for leapfrogging.
