Fierce Health Technology October 14, 2020
Every single patient that heads to a RWJBarnabas Health facility will be soon be screened for social determinants of health and, if needed, referred to services for ongoing support, officials announced Tuesday.
SDOHs are social or environmental factors in a patient’s life—such as their access to healthy food, safe housing or transportation—that can ultimately impact their health.
Officials from the New Jersey-based health system say the program, called Health Beyond the Hospital (HBTH), will be the first “end-to-end, universally applied, culturally-tailored and fully integrated” SDOH program in the country.
“What defines our health is so much greater than genetics or clinical care; 80% of all health outcomes are due to social, behavioral, and environmental factors that are the...
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