Healthcare Innovation June 18, 2024
Goal is to develop more accurate predictive models for 30-day hospital readmissions and healthcare costs
Illinois-based OSF HealthCare is working with researchers to integrate social drivers of health (SDOH) factors with information from traditional patient records to develop more accurate predictive models for 30-day hospital readmissions and healthcare costs.
A Connected Communities Initiative (CCI) grant of up to $75,000 will support the research. Social drivers of health are non-medical factors that have a big impact on a person’s health and wellness. Those can include a person’s financial constraints, housing, transportation, childcare and access to fresh food, among others.
Launched in March 2023, the CCI program is a formalization of the partnership between lllinois State University and Peoria-headquartered OSF HealthCare. Illinois...
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