Sharing early lessons on SDOH data integration across health plans

Social determinants of health (SDOH) play a critical role in health outcomes, but standardized SDOH data collection is lacking. How is NCQA driving standardization through national SDOH quality measures?

 

Featuring: Rachel Harrington, PhD, AVP of health equity sciences, NCQA

Adrianna Nava, PhD, MPA, applied research scientist, NCQA

 

In today’s episode, we’ll cover…

• Updates to NCQA’s SDOH quality measures
• Current SDOH data collection challenges
• The role policy plays in driving SDOH data standardization...

and more!

 

To learn more about SDOH data collection, check out our Health IT and EHR site and our Patient Engagement site.

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References

Charting new territory: the early lessons in integrating social determinant of health (SDOH) measures into practice  https://academic.oup.com/healthaffairsscholar/article/2/11/qxae138/7900537 

How Regenstrief and HL7 are driving SDOH data standards https://www.techtarget.com/searchhealthit/feature/How-Regenstrief-and-HL7-are-driving-SDOH-data-standards https://www.techtarget.com/searchhealthit/feature/How-Regenstrief-and-HL7-are-driving-SDOH-data-standards  

Advocating for SDOH data standards to support health equity https://www.techtarget.com/searchhealthit/podcast/Advocating-for-SDOH-data-standards-to-support-health-equity