PROVIDENCE – Care New England Health System recently announced it was selected as part of the Amazon Web Services, or AWS, Health Equity Initiative.
The initiative is a $60 million commitment that supports organizations to develop solutions that advance health equity. A spokesperson said Care New England received $110,000 in AWS credits and the program has offered to make its technical experts available to the health system.
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Care New England plans to use the funds to create an internal and public-facing “dashboard” of social drivers of health-facing primary care populations.
“Our goal is to summarize the Social Drivers of Health data collected in [the] CNE/Integra primary care setting, provide analyses relevant to community stakeholders and make a select dataset available to internal partners and the public in support of efforts to improve SDoH conditions in Rhode Island,” said Dr. Joseph Diaz, chief health equity officer at Care New England and associate dean in the Office of Belonging, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School.
Katie Castellani is a PBN staff writer. You may contact her at Castellani@PBN.com.
