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As health care increasingly shifts online, digital inclusion has become a critical pathway to health equity. This policy brief examines how access to broadband, devices, digital skills, and technical support shapes patients’ ability to engage in virtual care, use patient portals, and manage health through digital tools such as telehealth, mobile apps, and remote monitoring.
This study evaluated a brief scale to assess digital skills among adults aged 50 and older across English, Spanish, and Cantonese speakers.
This study explored patient-reported barriers, preferences, and facilitators to self-measured blood pressure monitoring among English- and Spanish-speaking patients with hypertension at an urban safety-net hospital.
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Dear friends,
I’m writing this on a rainy cold afternoon, and I can’t say I am looking forward to the gray days and long nights ahead. Just as I typed that last sentence, a hummingbird visited the feeder outside my window and reminded me that there is color and liveliness in every season. So, onward with optimism!
Dear friends,
Can you believe that 2026 is here? Let us hope for a peaceful and fruitful year ahead. I’m writing this message on my last day of stay-cation, in between helping my youngest with college applications and my eldest with his search for summer jobs. In 2025 I started a new practice. I identified a “weekly win” in some area of my life, wrote it on a sticky note and put it up on a wall in my home office. I purposely wrote down whatever first came to my mind, and I never revised it. If there were two wins I was thinking about at the end of the week, I wrote down both, so I ended the year with 58 sticky notes on my wall.
Dear friends,
We have reached the end-of-the-year sprint! How are you holding up? We host a big Thanksgiving at my childhood home, and I am filled with gratitude and also fatigue. I hope you all spend some time connecting with loved ones during this crazy month.