The Expanding Digital Divide: Digital Health Access Inequities during the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City.

Finally, health providers and health systems can help accelerate broadband deployment in low-resource communities by supporting policies that reduce financial, bureaucratic, and structural barriers to the expansion of required infrastructure, such as digital redlining of less economically profitable neighborhoods [[2], [10], [13]]. Health providers can advocate for federal mandates like the Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Service Standards to formalize guidance on promoting digital health equity, such as by expanding the availability of interpreter services for telehealth visits [[23]]. Conclusion The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted that digital access is now a social determinant of health and a prerequisite for access to both COVID-related and non-COVID care [[1], [19]]. As telemedicine use for healthcare delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic has grown, access to technology has emerged as a fundamental determinant of access to care. [Extracted from the article]