Article Highlights:
- Social determinants of health account for up to 80% of health outcomes, while medical care accounts for the balance, according to County Health Rankings. Experiences with COVID-19 are a stark reminder that unaddressed social determinants and health inequities play significant roles in the comorbidities that have led to countless deaths attributed to the coronavirus since early 2020.
- Rahul Sharma, CEO of HSBlox, a social determinants of health platform vendor, says there are several obstacles the healthcare industry must overcome to fully leverage SDOH, including:
- Disparate and siloed data from multiple sources across industries, agencies and organizations in the public and private sectors, each with its own structures.
- Roughly 80% of healthcare data being unstructured.
- In the realm of social determinants, stakeholders that are not subject to HIPAA regulations.
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