New tools from the American Telemedicine Association can help assess a community’s digital infrastructure and estimate the cost of telehealth-based clinical or social interventions to show how virtual care can impact healthcare disparities.WHY IT…
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Michael Pattwell, Principal Business Advisor, Value-Based Care, Edifecs
While the need to address social determinants of health (SDOH) is definitely not new, 2023 marks the first year SDOH is codified into national and statewide value-based…
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By Hannah Nelson
September 08, 2023 – South Dakota’s Department of Health (DOH) has awarded a contract to health IT vendor findhelp to build a statewide community information exchange (CIE).
The platform will connect South Dakotans in need…
Adimika Arthur, Executive Director, HealthTech 4 Medicaid
Manisha Sharma, Senior Medical Director, Promise Health Plan Blue Shield of California
During the pandemic, Medicaid enrollment grew by nearly 30% to cover more than 93 million Americans, due…
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By Sara Heath
August 31, 2023 – Rural healthcare organizations excel at addressing social determinants of health despite the barriers blocking patient care access, a new University of Missouri study found.
Overall, hospitals and health systems serving…
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We can reinvent medicine by taking a more active role in fixing these barriers to good patient care, and by developing the digital tools to improve early detection of disease.
By John Halamka, M.D., president,…
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AI-driven NLP models effectively extract social determinant data from clinical notes, as demonstrated by the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University collaboration. Analyzing over six million clinical notes, their adaptable system identifies housing and financial…
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A study by the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University has demonstrated the potential of using natural language processing technology to extract social risk factor information from clinical notes.The NLP system developed by the research…
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ZeOmega announced it has integrated its Jiva Population Health Enterprise Management Platform’s SDOH Social Care solution with Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare built for Microsoft Azure. The integration empowers healthcare organizations with Azure…
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There is a lot of emphasis on how social determinants of health data – strongly linked to patient outcomes – are used in real-world healthcare scenarios with many researchers focusing on a lack of…
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