Mass General Hits Health Equality via Demographic Data Collection

June 25, 2021 - Mass General Brigham has announced the launch of a campaign to collect more accurate and complete demographic data from the hospital’s more than one million adult primary care patients. This demographic data will consist of information such as ethnicity, age, and medical history.

With the provided information, medical professionals will use it in determining a patient’s vulnerability to certain illnesses and which treatments will be most effective for them. The goal of this campaign is to improve access to healthcare programs and services and provide more equitable care for everyone.

The hospital’s current data for patient's race/ethnicity/language has about a 20 percent rate of missing data depending on the location. Mass General Brigham’s new goal is to have a less than 5 percent rate of missing data across the primary care population.