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Integrating Social Determinants Of Health Data Into EHR

Identifying and executing a patient's SDOH information into the EHR is significant in discovering solutions for specific health issues. Here is about incorporating SDOH into EHR.

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Integrating Social Determinants Of Health Data Into EHR

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  1. INTEGRATING SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH DATA INTO EHR www.capminds.com

  2. 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.

  3. Why Addressing SDOH Data Is Important? • Addressing social determinants requires the integration of this information into the EHR. • It’s now considered common knowledge that providers need to address a patient’s social determinants of health. .

  4. ‘’Commonly cited statistics show that clinical care influences just 10 to 20 percent of a patient’s outcomes, while social determinants of health impact the remainder’’

  5. 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.

  6. Technological Support • Providers should have one standard location to understand a patient’s social needs as they have one standard location to look at a patient’s 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. Conclusion • In today’s 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 patient’s health risks.

  10. ‘’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 patient’s food uncertainty as smoothed out as tending to a patient’s diabetes’’.

  11. Read More About Medical Billing & EHR @ CapMinds Healthcare Blog

  12. CapMindsEHRServices Contact us CapMinds Technologies 42240 Mason Ridge Ct, Brambleton, VA 20148 +1 571.213.3245 info@capminds.com https://www.capminds.com

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