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Clinician-Led Drive Fueled Social Determinants of Health Screening

October 25, 2021PatientEngagementHITNo CommentsPatientEngagementHITHealth Equity & Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)

For MercyOne, digital social determinants of health screening was a clinician-led pursuit. When the Iowa-based hospital and clinic system began screening for social risk factors in 2017, its leaders were responding to pushes from providers who noted the role these factors play in overall patient health.

“We’d heard from our providers that health-related social needs are important to health outcomes. They wanted to know,” Emily Fletcher, MPH, MercyOne’s division director of Social and Clinical Care Integration, said in a phone call with PatientEngagementHIT.

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