Skyping In The Hood: Misperceptions About Health IT Strategies For The Underserved

Whether on the bus, subway, grocery store line or walking down the street, it seems everyone is texting, staring at or talking into a device, even in our poorest neighborhoods. Yet, IT-based health care strategies are exploding everywhere except in low-income communities where, ironically, much of our highest cost health care is centralized. When will we make it a priority? I am convinced the community is ready?—?even if we aren’t.