Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Specific Types of Help

This is the final article in a series about social determinants of health (SDoH). Previous articles covered the definition, collection, sharing, and use of SDoH. I’ll finish with a look at some specific areas of intervention. We’ve seen the importance of personal interventions, through interviews and evaluating SDoH, to solve problems. In rural areas, where it might be daunting either to travel to a doctor or to schedule an online visit with poor Internet access, home visits fill the gap. Conduit Health Partners is one organization that does so. A patient can speak to a nurse immediately—as opposed to calling a PCP, who might take hours or even days to return a call—and determine whether a problem can be solved at home, urgent care, or the emergency room. President Cheryl Dalton-Norman says they’ve found that they prevented a patient from going to the ER about 25% of the time when the patient considered doing so. One site used SDoH to ensure equity for under-served populations when there wasn’t enough of a critical drug for all patients. (Of course, selecting patients along any sort of criteria is controversial.) Aid for Employment and Financial Management One valuable area of intervention, using SDoH, is helping people find work. According to Tina Burbine of Healthlink Advisors, many people emerge from prisons or treatment programs with neither job training or secure housing. Maria Gil, Data-Tech-AI Partner, Consumer and Healthcare at Genpact, e...
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 Case Management Cheryl Dalton-Norman Clara Lambert Conduit Health Partners Genpact Health Link Adviso Source Type: blogs