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<p>The National Institutes of Health estimates the cost of race and ethnicity disparities in the United States is upwards of $400 billion a year, says Dr. Michael Poku, chief clinical officer at Equality Health.<br />  </p>

<p>The health system has an integrated strategic plan to help clinicians and patients get the best care, says CIO Dr. Michael Pfeffer.<br />  </p>

<p>Data sets can be integrated into population health stratification to discover health equity issues that are preventing access to care, says Lynn Carroll, COO of HSBlox.<br />  </p>

<p>Payers have seen success in improving health outcomes by taking a holistic approach to member interventions, says Leah Dewey, vice president of Cotiviti.</p>

<p>Health equity index measures will be used in determining a plan's bonus payments, says Christie Teigland, vice president of Research Science and Advanced Analytics at Inovalon.<br />  </p>

<p>Having a central repository for consent would promote both interoperability and health equity, says Daniel Stein, president of Stewards of Change Institute.<br />  </p>

<p>The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General recommends Medicare develop its own source for race and ethnicity data collection in the Medicare population, says Ann Maxwell, HHS-OIG deputy inspector general for evaluations.</p> <p>  </p>

<p>The ability to have AI in the EHR must have the goal of incorporation into daily workflows, says Meditech COO Helen Waters.<br />  </p>

<p>Large language models help leverage the social determinants of health for better care navigation, says Karl Ulfers, cofounder and CEO of DUOS.<br />  </p>

<p>Having individuals connected by one identifier is good for information sharing and for attracting the private-public partnerships that are essential to moving forward, says Bogi Eliasen, director of health at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.<br />  </p>