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.

This study explored perceived barriers and facilitators to using electronic patient-generated data (PGD) in safety-net health systems, through 43 semi-structured interviews with patients and clinicians and observations of 15 clinical encounters.