Healthcare IT News December 10, 2018
Tom Sullivan

SDOH will require a new education approach, platform and principles akin to personalized medicine.

Social determinants hold the potential improve care, reduce costs and enhance the lives of individuals, but so far the business and financial incentives haven’t existed for putting them to widespread use. With the transition to value-based care and population health programs, however, social determinants are on the verge of becoming more mainstream.

But that will require new technologies, education and operational strategies from hospitals and the industry at large amid the broader digital transformation – as well as new thinking about what exactly counts as a social determinant of health.

“We haven’t yet touched the surface on the social and emotional dominants of health,” said Jitendra...

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Topics: Digital Health, Equity/SDOH, Patient / Consumer, Payment Models, Population Health Mgmt, Provider, Technology, Value Based
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