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Podcast
SDoH: Advancing Individual-level Data to Drive Better Care
Summary
Find out more about incorporating social determinants of health (SDoH) and individual data into healthcare.
As a “free-range” child in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Dr. John Halamka rode his bicycle to the dumpsters of defense contractors, pulling out the integrated circuits they had thrown away. By age 14, he had gained an advanced understanding of technology. However, his passion was in biology and life sciences, which led to a crazy idea: “What if I made a career that brought together technology and service to patients?” Roughly a half century after his novel notion, Dr. Halamka joins Change Healthcare’s Tim Suther to share stories and lessons from the leading edge of incorporating social determinants of health (SDoH) and individual data into healthcare.
On today’s show, Dr. John Halamka joins Tim Suther to discuss gaps that exist between what we know about SDoH and individual-level data in healthcare, and how organizations are incorporating individual-level data to drive better care outcomes.
Today’s panel: Dr. John Halamka, president, Mayo Clinic Platform; and Tim Suther, senior vice president, Data Solutions at Change Healthcare.
Here’s what they chatted about:
- Why is the real-world healthcare experience still decidedly mixed despite knowledge that social determinates affect up to 80% of health outcomes?
- Lessons from the front lines of healthcare, including what works and what doesn’t.
- How we end up with incorrect or ineffective healthcare data, and the need for alternate sources of data.
- Incorporating social determinants into predictive algorithms, and where these algorithms are most likely to fail.
- Why “innovation without risk” is an unrealistic goal, and how organizations can approach innovation instead.
Why healthcare organizations need to make data security a priority, along with an approach Mayo Clinic uses to protect patient data.
Episode Resources
- Dr. John Halamka’s bio
- Tim Suther’s bio
- The Mayo Clinic Platform
- Can S DoH predict your patient’s future?
- Change Healthcare unveils new SDoH analytics tools
- Change Healthcare "Insights" Newsletter
Show Resources
Key takeaways
- How organizations can use social determinants to drive better care outcomes
- A reduced-risk approach for incorporating individual-level data into healthcare
- Why today’s healthcare organizations need to do better when it comes to protecting individual and SDoH data
