Health IT Analytics January 9, 2018
The integration of social determinants of health into clinical data analytics made no significant difference in predicting the need for social services, a study finds.
Adding social determinants data to more traditional clinical data analytics did little to enhance the accuracy or precision of predictive population health analytics, according to a study published in JAMIA.
When directed to predict the need for mental health, social work, dietary education, or other social services, a predictive analytics model based solely on clinical data performed nearly equally to a model that added socioeconomic data to the mix.
Researchers examined data from 84,317 adult patients who had at least one outpatient visit between 2011 and 2016 at Eskenazi Health, the public safety-net health system...
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