Healthcare IT Today September 9, 2019
For the last few years, a growing number of healthcare organizations have been integrating information on social determinants of health into their population health management efforts. In fact, survey results published in early 2018 concluded that 80% of the organizations they surveyed had begun to track and use SDOH data.
Now, in another sign that SDOH data has arrived, HL7 has announced that a SDOH-focused group will join its HL7 FHIR Accelerator Program, working alongside existing initiatives such as Argonaut and Da Vinci. And while it’s too soon to tell what results it can achieve, it’s probably fair to call this news at least a modest milestone in the progress toward universal use of SDOH information in healthcare settings.
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