Top Technologies Supporting Social Determinants of Health Work
Patient Engagement September 8, 2023
Social determinants of health screening and referral are booming, but healthcare still lacks the data standards needed to meaningfully use this information.
While most health system social determinants of health initiatives are fundamentally about uncovering and fulfilling social needs, those efforts would not be complete without the health IT necessary to support them.
Indeed, programs that address social determinants of health—the circumstances in which we live, work, and play which affect our health outcomes—almost entirely hinge on technology. In the population health work, data is king, and in order to capture that data and make sense of it, a suite of patient engagement tools will be necessary.
Currently, eight in 10 healthcare organizations use healthcare technology to approach their...