EHR Intelligence September 23, 2021
Hannah Nelson

Health IT developers should consider SDOH data interoperability as a core feature of the design process to pursue health equity, ONC leader Micky Tripathi said.

Health IT developers should consider the collection of social determinants of health (SDOH) data as a core feature of health IT design to pursue health equity, ONC lead Micky Tripathi, PhD, MPP, said in a media availability earlier this month.

SDOH data exchange gives providers a more well-rounded view of what conditions may be impacting patient health and wellbeing, allowing for targeted intervention.

However, the healthcare industry lacks the interoperability infrastructure to share SDOH data in a systematic way. COVID-19 highlighted these infrastructure flaws.

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Topics: Equity/SDOH, Govt Agencies, Health IT, Healthcare System, HIE (Interoperability), ONC, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology
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