Healthcare IT News May 17, 2022
Bill Siwicki

An expert tells how to surface key social determinant insights about patient populations and turn insights into action.

The pandemic has shone a spotlight on longstanding issues with healthcare inequities due to underlying social determinants of health issues, such as living in a food desert, a lack of reliable transportation and unequal access to care.

However, many in health IT contend healthcare provider organizations can use advanced analytics to surface key insights about their patient populations and take action to ensure all patients have equal access to high-quality care.

Sheila Talton is CEO of Gray Matter Analytics, which offers value-based care healthcare analytics as a service. She is a believer in analytics helping to solve SDOH problems.

We interviewed Talton...

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