LIVEUsing Healthcare Tech to Promote Equity
Our health equity project entails providing underprivileged patients with digital devices and training to see if it increases their attitudes about health and overall patient outcomes. We anticipate that this work can improve disease management, preventive care, and overall public health. Assistance from LA2050 would help us purchase the equipment and staffing we need to support our scholars with this project.
What is the primary issue area that your application will impact?
Health care access
In what stage of innovation is this project, program, or initiative?
Research (initial work to identify and understand the problem)
What is your understanding of the issue that you are seeking to address?
Our overall goal is to improve healthcare outcomes for at-risk patients. We want to address the ethnic, cultural, and economic disparities in the quality of patient care and close gaps in learning and health access.
Describe the project, program, or initiative this grant will support to address the issue.
Our initiative entails improving healthcare outcomes; we plan to equip our participants with wearable technology devices to monitor their fitness and hold educational workshops. The devices will include health monitoring for vitals such as SpO2, VO2 Max, and heart rate. They also include fitness tracking, sleep tracking, fall detection, and more. We would use high school student workers to assist throughout the project, such as training or creating training materials for the patients to use the devices.
Describe how Los Angeles County will be different if your work is successful.
We would love to share our findings with the Los Angeles County healthcare community. This information produced from our study will help improve patient outcomes. Also, it will bring awareness to simple digital devices that can be used to better patient outcomes. Lastly, we will have trained and inspired students to participate in this program.
What evidence do you have that this project, program, or initiative is or will be successful, and how will you define and measure success?
We plan to measure the success of our program through surveys and gathering data. The data gathering includes: We plan to educate our participants on the different metrics we are taking
We plan to gauge our participants' attitudes regarding their health
We plan to benchmark our participants' health metrics at the beginning and end of the study
We can ask the patients if they received less biased being more informed when speaking with their physicians
Approximately how many people will be impacted by this project, program, or initiative?
Direct Impact: 10.0
Indirect Impact: 2,000.0