LexisNexis Risk Solutions Takes Social Determinants of Health to New Heights

During the past decade, finally, health care is starting to deal in a structured, measurable manner with the life factors and environments that play the biggest role in their patients’ health. A recent offering from LexisNexis Risk Solutions promises to greatly expand access to this data, called social determinants of health (SDoH), for payers, clinicians, public health agencies, pharma companies, and other researchers. The company LexisNexis Risk Solutions is almost synonymous with the data banks of consumer data that financial firms and other businesses consult for identity verification and outreach. The company’s contributions to SDoH data were covered by a recent article in this publication along with this SDoH interview and this SDoH Maturity Model. But the new LexisNexis Health Equity and Inclusion Insights offering adds new data and improves its quality. Data collection is undergoing more and more scrutiny by the press and legislators. A recently released book that critiques data collection on individuals, The Hank Show by McKenzie Funk, connects the history of tracking individuals with current trends in analytics, AI, and facial recognition. The final chapter on social determinants of health comes out more positive than most of the others. During the serious conversations going on currently about privacy and potential bias, we should also highlight the benefits of non-traditional data sources to improve health, as shown by the SDoH service from LexisNexis ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Diana Zuskov Health Data Diversity Health Equity Healthcare AI Bias LexisNexis LexisNexis Risk Solutions McKenzie Funk Pub Source Type: blogs