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Volume 10, Number 9
September 2017
Surveys Track Rise of Social Determinants of Health Data
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Surveys Track Rise of Social Determinants of Health Data
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Subscribers’ Corner
Recent results from Connace and Deloitte highlight the need for access to and understanding of sociodemographic data. nalyzing and integrating social determinants of health data is an increasingly vital function for providers and payers alike, as the impact of a patient’s environment on his or her physical health becomes clearer. It’s a relatively new discipline, and all the stakeholders apparently have room for improvement. In a recent survey, Connance, a predictive analytics company based in Waltham MA, asked 175 case managers, social workers and clinical executives nationwide about the availability and use of SDH data – what kinds are available to care teams now and what could be done to improve the ways clinicians use SDH information.
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Ryan J. Bengtson, Senior Vice President of Clinical Innovation at Connance and author of a white paper based on the survey called “Social Determinants of Health: The Missing Link to Improved Outcomes/Assessing the Gap in Sociodemographic Insight,” comments: “Despite the considerable investment made in EMRs and population health systems, there’s a real gap in access to appropriate social determinant information. The limited SDH data those systems have either lacks a direct connection to care programming, or doesn’t surface early enough in the treatment process.”
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SCIO Health Analytics Named to Healthcare Informatics 100, Inc. 5000 SCIO Health Analytics reports it has for the first time been named to the Healthcare Informatics 100 list and for the sixth time to the “renowned” Inc. 5000 list of the nation’s fastest-growing companies. The Healthcare Informatics list “ranks the top vendors with the highest revenues derived from healthcare IT products and services,” a statement from SCIO says; the company came in at #98, reporting $68.3 million in revenues for 2016. That, plus a three-year growth rate of 48% scored the number 4,736 slot in the Inc. survey. As a six-time honoree, SCIO is among a select group of companies that have earned inclusion in Inc. 5000’s Honor Roll, which requires five appearances on the list, a milestone achieved by fewer than 10% of companies named to the big list. The company also notes that August 17 was its 10th anniversary in business. SCIO says its “commitment to applying analytics expertise to provide clients with actionable insights that deliver better outcomes” helps organizations across the healthcare continuum that are “grappling with the industry-wide shift towards value-based care.” As well, SCIO says, its Insights-as-a-Service offerings “enable organizations to solve their most pressing, complex problems without tying up internal resources.” Visit sciohealthanalytics.com.
Frost & Sullivan Applauds CORAnet’s Efforts to Strengthen Brand Frost & Sullivan has recognized CORAnet Solutions Inc. with its 2017 North America Frost & Sullivan Award for Competitive Strategy Innovation and Leadership. CORAnet “has emerged a successful, cloud-based mobile technology solution provider, offering first responders, doctors and individual patients 24/7 secure access to personal health records,” F&S says in a statement, noting that “its advanced software makes possible real-time access to PHR data that is exchangeable along the entire care continuum.” The shift toward value-based care has “heightened the demand for mobile PHR solutions,” the F&S analysis adds, saying CORAnet has “expertly tapped the opportunities in the market for novel PHR solutions by introducing an emergency medicine platform; an ambulatory platform that provides on-demand access to disparate, consolidated and organized PHRs; and a mobile telemedicine platform that offers remote access to care anywhere.” (continued on page 5) Published by Health Policy Publishing, LLC
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