Digital apps and reducing ethnic health inequalities : driving progress through digital, design, and organisational transformation

Digital apps and reducing ethnic health inequalities : driving progress through digital, design, and organisational transformation This report reviews how information gleaned from users of online health tools is used by health providers to analyse and improve patient health. An analysis of NHS data finds that digital and apps teams, employed by the NHS, face a number of barriers and limitations preventing insight and the linking of gaps across health services, conditions, digital usage and wider ethnic health inequalities. It calls for an explicit reform in how the NHS and NHS Blood and Transplant rebuild, collect and use data to guide policy decisions, particularly around ethnicity coding and health inequalities. NHS Race & Health Observatory