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Digital health apps range from providing services such as virtual doctor appointments and chronic-disease management to consumer-focused apps that help people manage their own health through tracking daily steps and accessing exercise and nutrition programs. Yet someone’s ethnicity, income and neighbourhood are the biggest factors in whether one will access healthcare services, and achieve good outcomes – and 60% of older people don’t have access to a smartphone. The panel will explore how to achieve health equity and engage seldom-heard, hard-to-reach communities, based on the learnings of the delivery of the UK’s highest-rated health app within a hospital obesity, and cardiac rehabilitation service. The panel will showcase best practice of engaging diverse and varied communities and provide a digital health equity toolkit to enable attendees to reduce health inequalities and improve health equity.

• Identify requirements of a digital health service to ensure it reaches seldom-heard and hard-to-reach communities
• Development of a digital health equity toolkit to ensure services meet expectations of seldom-heard communities
• Identify requirements of a digital health service to ensure its accessibility for those with visual or hearing impairments, learning difficulties, accessibility needs or lack of Internet
• Understand why implementation of a digital service is as important as the service itself
• Learn from the best practice implementation of a precision health app (Gro Health) used to provide weight management and cardiac rehabilitation services within a hospital network in the UK

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