By Hannah Nelson
September 08, 2023 – South Dakota’s Department of Health (DOH) has awarded a contract to health IT vendor findhelp to build a statewide community information exchange (CIE).
The platform will connect South Dakotans in need…
By Sara Heath
August 31, 2023 – Rural healthcare organizations excel at addressing social determinants of health despite the barriers blocking patient care access, a new University of Missouri study found.
Overall, hospitals and health systems serving…
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We can reinvent medicine by taking a more active role in fixing these barriers to good patient care, and by developing the digital tools to improve early detection of disease.
By John Halamka, M.D., president,…
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AI-driven NLP models effectively extract social determinant data from clinical notes, as demonstrated by the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University collaboration. Analyzing over six million clinical notes, their adaptable system identifies housing and financial…
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A study by the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University has demonstrated the potential of using natural language processing technology to extract social risk factor information from clinical notes.The NLP system developed by the research…
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ZeOmega announced it has integrated its Jiva Population Health Enterprise Management Platform’s SDOH Social Care solution with Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare built for Microsoft Azure. The integration empowers healthcare organizations with Azure…
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Researchers explored AI and NLP integration in post-acute patient engagement programs, addressing emotional, behavioral, and recovery barriers beyond SDOH. While SDOH data collection faces challenges, the study found 83% of U.S. acute care hospitals…
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There are so many things to talk about in healthcare – both in terms of new technology and ideas as well as problems that we need to fix – but there is so little…
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There is a lot of emphasis on how social determinants of health data – strongly linked to patient outcomes – are used in real-world healthcare scenarios with many researchers focusing on a lack of…
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By Hannah Nelson
August 10, 2023 – Aetna, a CVS Health company, has awarded Georgia’s state-designated health information exchange (HIE) $200,000 for a pilot project to drive social determinants of health (SDOH) interoperability.
The Georgia Health Information…
