Leavitt Partners October 11, 2024
Increasingly, attention and resources are being focused on addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) as awareness grows that SDOH, or the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age, are a primary driver of health outcomes. However, collection and exchange of SDOH data is lagging, hampering efforts to address SDOH.
Leavitt Partners and CyncHealth, organizations that carry deep expertise in federal digital health policy and SDOH data collection workflows, respectively, see two significant, interrelated barriers to the collection and exchange of SDOH data. First, a lack of stakeholder understanding of key federal policies affecting the collection and exchange of such data. Second, a...