Healthcare DIVE January 22, 2018
Les Masterson

Healthcare organizations are waking up to the importance of social determinants of health, like housing and nutrition.

The industry transition to value-based payments is leading to more population health management programs, but providers are finding it’s difficult when patients lack secure housing, access to food or a way to get to appointments.

So many are now going beyond one buzz word, population health, and taking into account the role that another, social determinants of health, play in a person’s health.

“Population health management efforts are most successful when they are tied to efforts to address social determinants of health issues, since the challenges that patients face around housing, food and transportation, for example, are completely tied to their ability...

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