Health Management Technology February 21, 2018
The growing acceptance that population health is impacted more by what happens outside of the confines of a doctor’s office or hospital setting, rather than inside of it, is reflected in a new survey of healthcare executives.
The survey, published in a recent white paper by HealthCare Executive Group and Change Healthcare, showed that a majority of executives are increasingly adopting social determinants of health (SDoH) into their programs.
Executives answering the survey were mostly payers, with other respondents being providers, third-party administrators, hospitals, government, consultants and analysts, and vendors.
SDoH are the factors that contribute to a person’s health, such as where they live and work, their housing situation, and their access to healthy food. For instance, rather than...
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