EHR Intelligence November 1, 2021
Linking SDOH EHR data with community-level data through artificial intelligence tools like machine learning could help boost population health and health equity.
Health systems should leverage health IT solutions that capture and analyze social determinants of health (SDOH) EHR data to improve population health, according to an article published in JAMA Network Open.
Health IT could provide opportunities to improve health equity by addressing the underlying factors that lead to care disparities, Elham Hatef, MD, MPH, from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, wrote in the JAMA op-ed.
Studies have found that type 2 diabetes is more common among Black adults compared with non-Hispanic White adults, Hatef wrote, offering type 2...
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