E-Health Care: Promise or Peril for Chronic Illness

Health disparities are commonly observed, systemic, and preventable.1 Individuals with chronic health problems are at highest risk for differential access to effective treatment.2-4 Most health disparities are potentiated by systemic barriers to health-services access, including explicit and implicit biases in care delivery, complex health information, and disparate access to health insurance, health plans, healthcare facilities, or other effective medical technology. In fact, the introduction of new medical technologies has often widened health disparities.

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