AHIMA August 26, 2020
For years, it was difficult to find a conference, technology solution, or plucky that didn’t extol social determinants of health (SDOH)as a panacea for rising costs and widening care disparities.
Today, with the COVID-19 spreading uncontrolled in nearly every state and disproportionately impacting minority populations, SDOH is being positioned as an essential tool in pandemic response and a pathway toward a more equitable public health system.
Joe Nicholson, DO, a board-certified physician and chief medical officer of CareAllies, a subsidiary of Cigna that partners with providers in the transition to value-based care, says that COVID-19 offers an opportunity for deep and widespread adoption of SDOH initiatives—not just as a response to the pandemic, but a viable pathway for closing long-standing...