5 steps to strategic SDOH integration
Healthcare IT News January 23, 2024
Making better use of social determinant of health information requires meaningful participation from diverse stakeholders, say the team members behind the Georgia Health Information Network’s SDOH data exchange blueprint.
As part of a growing body of standards for healthcare, the ability for providers to access and understand the social determinants of the health of their patients to raise and achieve equity requires enough steps that the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT created an SDOH toolkit for communities.
ONC says it built the tool kit, which is designed for collaborating community groups and healthcare providers, around “community readiness and stewardship, policy, financing, user support and learning networks.”
The Georgia Health Information Network, or GaHIN, has been hyper-focused on...