Health Payer Intelligence September 2, 2020
Blue Shield of California’s new partnership aims to make regional social determinants of health data available to all in order to assist healthcare reforms.
Blue Shield of California has partnered with a third-party vendor to make social determinants of health data accessible to anyone.
Payers and providers talk extensively about sharing social determinants of health data and other information with each other, but some payers are starting to consider ways to “democratize data.”
“By making the data publicly available, anyone can gain a deeper understanding of the unmet social needs in their community and serve the population with increased knowledge about issues that have an impact on people’s health and wellbeing,” said Peter Long, senior vice president of healthcare and...