Indiana Leaders Launch SDOH Data-Sharing Initiative

Incorporating social determinants of health (SDOH) data into providers’ workflows has long been a challenge, starting at the basic infrastructure level around who is responsible for addressing social needs or what the best approaches to the problem are. For instance, a study published last fall in JAMA Open Network, inclusive of responses from more than 2,100 physician practices and nearly 800 hospitals across the country, found that just one-quarter of U.S. hospitals and 16 percent of physician practices self-report screening patients for social determinants of health such as food,...