Social Determinants of Health: Moving Beyond Data
Addressing Social Determinants With Action To Improve Health
With the shift to value-based care and incentives attached to quality outcomes, providers are looking beyond medical data to create a more comprehensive patient view that also identifies and considers social determinants of health that studies show have a significant impact on the patient’s health, risk for complications, readmission rate and access to care.
For insights into a patient’s social determinants of health to add value, providers need to take action on the data obtained. They need tools and methods that allow for proactive outreach and engagement that connect patients and caregivers with the services, resources and education that help them meet needs such as food security, housing, and transportation that are barriers to care, self-management and overall health.
Providing HIPAA compliant mobile, multidirectional, multimedia communication, MeU Care was designed with capabilities to do just what the research suggests is needed. MeU’s digital surveys collect data, including the social determinants of health, that is made actionable via campaigns and HIPAA secure messaging to reach patients and caregivers and where they are at – connecting them across the care continuum to coordinate and get what they need to stay healthy and out of the hospital.
There is no shortage of scholarly articles about the importance of addressing social determinants of health. Contact MeU Care at support@meucare.com to learn how we can help your organization do it in the most efficient and impactful way.
