To ensure innovation in healthcare technology moves in the right direction, HLTH Foundation has introduced two free, practical tools—the User Guide to Techquity in Healthcare and the Techquity for Health Database. Together, they provide healthcare and public health leaders with actionable guidance and real-world examples for embedding equity into digital health design, deployment, and data practices.
Why Techquity Matters
Digital health continues to transform how people access and experience care, and is accelerating with the adoption of artificial intelligence. Yet too often, technology reinforces the very inequities it aims to solve. In 2023, HLTH Foundation’s Techquity Benchmarking Survey revealed a key insight: while most healthcare leaders agree that digital health equity is essential, many still lack concrete guidance and examples to achieve it.
To help close that gap, HLTH Foundation convened an advisory group of equity experts, technologists, and healthcare leaders to create two resources that make techquity practical, measurable, and repeatable. The result is a foundation for change that moves beyond awareness to real-world application.
The User Guide to Techquity in Healthcare
The User Guide to Techquity in Healthcare serves as a first-of-its-kind set of recommendations for techquity practice—a roadmap for embedding equity across the full lifecycle of health technology. Developed through an analysis of case studies in equitable innovation of technology, tech-enabled health programs or data and informed by expert counsel, the guide offers tangible steps to help organizations design, implement, and purchase technology responsibly and inclusively.
Readers will find:
Whether you are developing new digital tools, purchasing enterprise platforms, or shaping health policy, the User Guide to Techquity in Healthcare equips you with evidence-based practices for creating fairer, more effective technologies. 👉 Download the guide at hlthfoundation.org/userguide.
The Techquity for Health Database
The Techquity for Health Database complements the guide by providing a living library of examples that prove what digital health equity looks like in action. This free, searchable collection features top-rated submissions from the first two seasons of the Techquity for Health Awards, highlighting completed and in-progress projects built for trust, access, and measurable equity outcomes.
Users can:
The database is designed for innovators, implementers, purchasers, funders, policymakers and purchasers in healthcare and public health who are seeking to understand or replicate approaches to digital inclusion. 👉 Explore the database at hlthfoundation.org/database.
Feedback and support for this work is welcome. Contact us at info@hlthfoundation.org.
