Aug 2, 2026 · 24 min · 10 segments
Women’s health has been historically under-represented in health data and research, leading to persistent inequities in care. As digital health evolves, there’s a unique opportunity to address these…
Peter BirchHost
Talat UppalGuest
Danielle BancroftGuest
Angela RyanGuest
For decades, we've designed health systems around what's easy to measure, not what actually reflects women's lived experience.
What's different now is digital health, particularly Sparked, gives us the infrastructure to change that, but only if we focus on the standards, the data quality, and the interoperability.
So when we look at data and how it provides real value back to the system, there's kind of a couple of different layers we have to look at.
One is having the data, but largely historically, we have different systems designed different ways with different data models.
And contextualizing that across what one doctor is saying for a diagnosis may mean something different for another doctor that's making a diagnosis.
So the use of standards really underpin making meaning and consistent understanding of what you're actually exchanging when we start talking about true interoperability.
It's really about putting an additional layer of, if you think about one part is the transport, so we can make those connections and start sharing the data.
That very next level is making sure that we're all reading and interpreting that data in the same way.
And on that question, Tala, you see the product of this on a day-to-day with patients and how Danielle's framed it quite rightfully too is all of that kind of behind the scenes and the data element, which in the end impacts patients.
But I'd love to get your frame on what it means from the patient's point of view on the day-to-day as a clinician.
Look, I think the beauty of the SPARCT program is how practical you can actually see that the endpoints are for the community.
And that, you know, in my clinical day, Pete, it's not uncommon for us to have a number of gaps where you would say, okay, where's the ultrasound for this person? Where is the blood test that you've had recently? Or women are not traditionally, you know, supported.
Like Danielle rightly said, a lot of information is And the awareness and the education around some of the health conditions, I think this interoperability will create not only efficiencies, but also help become a platform that we could improve awareness of certain conditions in the community.
And when it comes to women's health, Pete, it's not only gynecological conditions.
Women have dementia, they have headaches, we have pain-related concerns, we have autoimmune conditions.
So I think that there is an amazing, amazing opportunity here for us to catch up.
For decades, we've designed health systems around what's easy to measure, not what actually reflects women's lived experience.
What's different now is digital health, particularly Sparked, gives us the infrastructure to change that, but only if we focus on the standards, the data quality, and the interoperability.
So when we look at data and how it provides real value back to the system, there's kind of a couple of different layers we have to look at.
One is having the data, but largely historically, we have different systems designed different ways with different data models.
And contextualizing that across what one doctor is saying for a diagnosis may mean something different for another doctor that's making a diagnosis.
So the use of standards really underpin making meaning and consistent understanding of what you're actually exchanging when we start talking about true interoperability.
It's really about putting an additional layer of, if you think about one part is the transport, so we can make those connections and start sharing the data.
That very next level is making sure that we're all reading and interpreting that data in the same way.
And on that question, Tala, you see the product of this on a day-to-day with patients and how Danielle's framed it quite rightfully too is all of that kind of behind the scenes and the data element, which in the end impacts patients.
But I'd love to get your frame on what it means from the patient's point of view on the day-to-day as a clinician.
Look, I think the beauty of the SPARCT program is how practical you can actually see that the endpoints are for the community.
And that, you know, in my clinical day, Pete, it's not uncommon for us to have a number of gaps where you would say, okay, where's the ultrasound for this person? Where is the blood test that you've had recently? Or women are not traditionally, you know, supported.
Like Danielle rightly said, a lot of information is And the awareness and the education around some of the health conditions, I think this interoperability will create not only efficiencies, but also help become a platform that we could improve awareness of certain conditions in the community.
And when it comes to women's health, Pete, it's not only gynecological conditions.
Women have dementia, they have headaches, we have pain-related concerns, we have autoimmune conditions.
So I think that there is an amazing, amazing opportunity here for us to catch up.
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