Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

This article shows how organizations are collecting it. Andrew Eye, CEO of the healthcare data science company ClosedLoop, estimates that about 15% of physicians collect SDoH-related data from patients and use it to assess their needs. The percentage is much higher in some areas. Data can be spotty, according to Eye, who says for instance that data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) often lacks racial identifications. He also says that collecting and processing the data is labor-intensive, because it can be hard to persuade patients to talk openly about financial and logistical problems. At the institutions served by ClosedLoop, case managers or care managers usually reach out to patients by phone. Some of the patients who need support for SDoH don’t visit a PCP. When they do, the doctor may be pressed for time and unable to consider SDoH. Because of the time required to process SDoH, Eye says, institutions need to prioritize which patients to contact. ClosedLoop applies machine learning to risk-stratify patients. It uses data collected from patients as well as ZIP code or census block data on populations. Personal and Aggregated Data The companies I talked to for this series rely mostly on two kinds of SDoH data. The first is personal: information collected from the patient about their needs for food, transportation, in-home support, etc. The second is aggregate data collected by the census or other institutions, and provided by ZIP code or censu...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Andrew Eye Arick Morton Carta Healthcare Case Management Casetivity CDC Clinical Archictecture Cl Source Type: blogs