EHR Intelligence August 21, 2017
Research and use cases are providing support for the push to integrate social determinants of health data into EHR data.
Healthcare organizations today are expanding their ideas of what influences a patient’s health beyond orange pill bottles and family history.
Increasingly, physicians are adamant about underlying influence of social determinants of health.
Defined by the World Health Organization as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age,” social determinants of health are at forefront of health management geared toward addressing all the aspects of a patient’s life to improve overall health.
And for good reason. Social determinants of health have been linked to better patient outcomes and reduced medical expenditures in a study by the Robert...
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