Health IT Analytics November 27, 2020
Jessica Kent

Sharing social determinants of health data can help organizations improve population health and clinical outcomes.

Of the countless pieces of information needed to enhance population health, social determinants of health data are among the most critical.

While it’s widely understood that non-clinical factors have a significant impact on patient health, collecting and sharing this information is no small task.

“The biggest challenge to collecting data in the EHR itself is the human resources needed to document the individual social determinants of a patient,” Brian Dixon, director of public health informatics at Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI, said during a recent episode of Healthcare Strategies, an Xtelligent Healthcare Media Podcast.

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Topics: EMR / EHR, Equity/SDOH, Health IT, Healthcare System, HIE (Interoperability), Patient / Consumer, Population Health Mgmt, Provider, Technology
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