Integrating Social Determinants Of Health Data Into EHR

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INTEGRATING SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH DATA
INTO EHR

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INTRODUCTION

• The spread of COVID-19 featured the significance
  of SDOH data collection making it an important
  factor to be considered immediately for providers
  and researchers. 
• Integrating social determinants of health (SDOH)
  data into the EHR helps healthcare providers and
  professionals gain insight into COVID-19.

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Why Addressing SDOH Data Is Important?

• Addressing social determinants requires the
  integration of this information into the EHR.
• Its now considered common knowledge that
  providers need to address a patients social
  determinants of health. .

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• Commonly cited statistics show that clinical
  care influences just 10 to 20 percent of a
  patients outcomes, while social determinants of
  health impact the remainder

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How To Integrate SDOH Data Into EHR?

• Providers can screen for this information in
  multiple ways
• Paper questionnaires before a patient sees the
  clinician
• Conversations when discussing treatment options,
  or
• Publicly available data sets that give context to
  where a patient lives and works.

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Technological Support

• Providers should have one standard location to
  understand a patients social needs as they have
  one standard location to look at a patients
  blood pressure.
• Without this, providers need to either search
  through the medical record, losing valuable time
  with patients or repeatedly ask patients
  screening questions.
• Building this into an existing EHR infrastructure
  can be a challenge for many organizations.

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Coding And Standards

• One of the biggest factors the industry needs to
  address is clinical coding.
• Currently, there are over 1,000 codes to document
  screening, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and
  intervention of social health-related clinical
  activities.
• But there is a gap in medical vocabulary and
  these codes do not encompass every social
  determinant of health a patient might have.

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Solution For Better Coding

• Standard reimbursement would promote better
  screening practices and coding, making addressing
  social determinants of health more sustainable.
• Finding a place for social determinants of health
  information in the EHR using codes and standards
  could help providers address some of the most
  pressing issues for their patients.

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Conclusion

• In todays healthcare system, the social
  determinants of health data profoundly impact
  health.
• So the providers should focus more on the social
  factors that might increase their patients
  health risks.

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• Empowering healthcare providers to handily
  screen for social determinants of health and
  utilize that data for the purpose of care will
  make tending to a patients food uncertainty as
  smoothed out as tending to a patients diabetes.

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