Public Health - Health Equity Dashboard

SB 684 requires the Maryland Department of Health, working with the Commission on Health Equity, to create a public data dashboard showing health disparities. The dashboard must display age-adjusted health data broken down by race, ethnicity, and gender across key areas like insurance access, cardiovascular disease, mental health, cancer, and HIV/AIDS. It mandates the dashboard be updated at least every 30 days and prominently posted on the Department's website. This law directly affects how Maryland tracks and shares health equity data, aiming to make disparities visible to the public and policymakers.