Health IT Analytics May 11, 2020
The Indiana Network for Population Health will facilitate the secure exchange of social determinants of health data to boost population health management.
With the healthcare industry steadily moving toward more holistic, preventive care delivery, health systems have increasingly recognized the critical role the social determinants of health play in the well-being of individual patients and broader population health management.
“Social determinants are a major component of what predicts and influences an individual’s health outcomes, as well as the outcomes of populations,” Brian Dixon, PhD, director of public health informatics at Regenstrief Institute and Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), told HealthITAnalytics.
“We know that life expectancy is highly related to a...