Digital Health Equity as a Necessity in the 21st Century Cures Act Era

This Viewpoint discusses inequities in broadband access and digital health literacy in the US, and proposes policies and actions to bring equity to patient-facing digital health tools, in the context of a 2020 final rule release giving patients more control of their health data from the US Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology's Cures (HI-TEC) Act.