As the medical industry continues to understand how social determinants of health impact overall wellness, the topics of environment and climate change have come into view. SDOH specifically refer to the environments in which individuals live, work, and play. Currently, most stakeholders are zooming in on factors like houselessness or food insecurity as leading SDOH…
This week, a group of senior officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), some from the Center for Medicare, some from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI, also called The Innovation Center) authored an op-ed in the Perspectives section of The New England Journal of Medicine online, in which they outline their…
For Morgan Honea, CEO of CORHIO (a Contexture organization), the value of interoperability between healthcare and dental settings revealed itself during his earlier career running federally qualified health centers (FQHCs). “I’ve spent most of my career integrating primary, oral, and behavioral healthcare in a service delivery setting,” Honea told EHRIntelligence in an interview. “There are so many medical…
Data standards and community stewardship are critical elements for social determinants of health (SDOH) data exchange, according to Greg Bloom, strategic advisor on community resources and engagement for the Gravity Project, a community-led HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) Accelerator. The Gravity Project worked with healthcare stakeholders such as health IT vendors, payers, providers, philanthropies,…
Loneliness and social isolation rose alarmingly during the COVID-19 pandemic as lockdowns proliferated and in-person gatherings were discouraged. A critical social determinant of health (SDOH), social isolation is estimated to have increased by 6.7 percentage points during the pandemic. To help combat this and other SDOH issues, providers and payers are turning to data analytics. Several companies have…
For health care providers and payers, changes to the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, and the reimbursement landscape encourage providing care that addresses social determinants of health for certain patient populations. Research shows that when medical care is delivered alongside non-medical services that affect health, patients, providers, and the health care system overall are better…
As we reported on Wednesday, Jan. 12, “The top officials at the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Tuesday, Jan. 11, made a major public statement regarding the goal of moving the healthcare system towards health equity, and a major component of that statement focused on leveraging Medicare’s value-based programs, particularly those…
On November 4, 2021, the Executive VP of the ACO ExhibitHall.com (ACOEH), John Schmitt, Ph.D., MBA, served as Panel Moderator of the FLAACOS 2021 Conference session titled “How to successfully transition from fee-for-service medicine to value-based care”. He was joined by Dr. Brent Staton, CEO of CCHI (ACO), as well as Rachel Corbitt, Executive Director,…
In early 2020, healthcare leaders from payers to providers to technology services providers found themselves at a crossroads—innovate or fail to care for patients. I had the privilege recently of joining a virtual roundtable with a group of healthcare leaders to talk about the transformation of patient care, engagement and outreach. The panel focused on…
Profound racial and ethnic disparities in health and well-being have long been the norm in the United States. Black and American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) people live fewer years, on average, than white people. They are also more likely to die from treatable conditions; more likely to die during or after pregnancy and to suffer serious pregnancy-related…