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Generative AI models can identify social determinants of health (SDOH) in doctors’ notes, a new study finds.
SDOH like housing and income are major drivers of health outcomes. But these factors are notoriously underdocumented in existing EHR structured data, study authors wrote in npj Digital Medicine. And while a subset of billing codes exists to capture SDOH data for quality improvement and health equity efforts, they are sorely underutilized.