Community Vital Signs Provides Additional Insights for Population Health Management

There is growing awareness of the impact of upstream social determinants on population health, but until recently these have been considered best addressed by policy makers on a large scale, and beyond the control of the medical system to influence.  That view may be changing, as discussed in this article by Ravi Narayanan, a member of the HIMSS Clinical & Business Intelligence Committee, and a Data Strategy and Management Consultant.  Mr. Narayanan describes how the adoption of value-based care and population health management has led health care providers to incorporate addressing unmet social needs into the provision of medical care.  This article discusses an innovative approach to incorporating social determinants data into population health, through geocoded address data to integrate Community Vital Signs, publicly available data about the community in which the patient lives.

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Suzanne Cohen

Just wanted to mention that Health Federation of Philadelphia is working with Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health to pilot a similar approach using geocoding of health center data and association with community level variables. We are early on in the project but see great potential for this approach. The intent is to use the data both to understand better how SDOH impact clinical outcomes and to look at ways to integrate community level information back into clinical workflow and population health management.

5/11/2017 10:29 AM

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