Health IT Analytics April 15, 2020
As part of the Precision Medicine Initiative, ONC is seeking to standardize the collection of social determinants of health data.
The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) is working to standardize the collection of social determinants of health data to help advance precision medicine and inform new treatments.
Information about individuals’ social determinants of health (SDOH) can provide clinicians with a more comprehensive picture of patient health, ONC noted, but analyzing this data for new insights is not always an easy task.
“We know SDOH—the conditions in which people live, learn, work, and play—impact our health, delivery of care, and coordination of services in many ways,” Kevin Chaney, MGS; Tracy Okubo, PMP; Ida Sim, PhD, MD and Teresa Zayas Caban...