Articles tagged with: social determinants of health
The Factors in Healthcare
Doctors and health care organizations know the importance of social factors in determining patients’ health outcomes. However, securely exchanging this information in electronic form and integrating it into patients’ electronic health records (EHRs) can be …
Managing Population Health in a Pandemic
Conducting population health management is challenging for most health care entities. Doing it during the COVID-19 pandemic makes it exponentially more difficult. However, the past two years have provided the perfect storm for testing the …
Looking at the Whole
Health starts at homes, in schools, at workplaces, and within communities. We know that taking care of ourselves by eating well and staying active, not smoking, getting the recommended immunizations and screening tests, and seeing a doctor …
Social and Clinical Factors
With significant medical advances and greater access to healthcare, many diseases are being diagnosed earlier and managed better. However, heart disease still remains the leading cause of death globally. While this is cause for concern …
Technology Factors In
With significant medical advances and greater access to healthcare, many diseases are being diagnosed earlier and managed better. However, heart disease still remains the leading cause of death globally. While this is cause for concern …
Social Determinants of Health Improves Healthcare Delivery
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) – the federal agency that oversees health information technology – recently announced a long-awaited change that could help doctors and nurses provide more timely …
Social Determinants of Health Are Informative
Z codes are ICD-10-CM codes used to identify non-medical factors that may affect a patient’s health status. They are also a useful way to track social determinants of health (SDOH) and capture standardized data for …
Improving the Health of the Whole
Population health is defined as the health outcomes of a group of individuals. These groups are often geographic populations such as nations or communities, but can also be other groups such as employees, ethnic groups, disabled …
Telehealth Bridged Some Gaps in Healthcare
Access to healthcare has always been a concern. Whether it be due to socio-economic factors, geographic locations or racial/bias implications, there are segments of our population that are either disenfranchised from access to quality care …
The Many Facets and Factors of Health
With significant medical advances and greater access to healthcare, many diseases are being diagnosed earlier and managed better. However, heart disease still remains the leading cause of death globally. While this is cause for concern …
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