ATA Launches Tools Promoting Telemedicine to Address Health Disparities

The American Telemedicine Association on Monday announced that one of its advisory groups is releasing three tools to disseminate ways that telehealth can address disparities and inequities in health care. The “Digital Infrastructure Disparities Score and Map” uses a newly created composite measure designed to score a community’s digital infrastructure on a scale of 1-100. The “Economic and Social Value-Added Calculator” tool is designed to estimate the cost of telehealth-based clinical or social interventions, including the total value of an intervention c...