Digital tools will advance health equity by supporting companies, payers, and providers who want to reach underserved populations. Johanna Benesty Managing Director and Partner • Digital tools will advance health equity by supporting • Digital technology will help improve clinical care companies, payers, and providers who want to reach by enabling data-driven analysis and giving health care underserved populations. Examples include tools that practitioners tools that support continuous learning, enable better decisions, permit the measurement of best-practice sharing, and operational research based on impact, allow more personalized treatment pathways, real-world evidence. For example, networks of intensive correct biases in data collection, or alleviate geographic care units (ICUs) may use federated learning—a barriers through the use of hybrid care models that machine-learning technique that multiple entities can use provide access to specialized services. to build a common model without sharing their data—to identify best practices in patient management and create a score for each ICU on the basis of its compliance with those practices and its alerts for high-risk cases.