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U.S. Agency Prioritizes Sharing Data on Social Determinants of Health, Such as Housing and Transportation

July 22, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsData, health information technology, Interoperability, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, ONC, SDOH, social determinants, social determinants of health, U.S. Core Data for Interoperability, USCDI

On July 9, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), the federal agency that oversees health information technology, announced a long-awaited change that could help doctors and nurses provide better, more timely care for their patients. The agency released an updated version of the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI), a…

Consensus among HHS agencies on addressing social determinants of Health Through Better Data Capture, Interoperability

July 15, 2021Garrett SchmittNo CommentsAmerican Rescue Plan, Data, data capture, Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, HHS, Interoperability, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, NPRM, OCR, ONC, SDOH, United States Core Data for Interoperability, USCDI, USCDI version 2

Over the last decade, members of the medical and public health communities around the world have widely studied and acknowledged the impact of social determinants of health (SDOH)—the conditions in the environments where people live, learn, work, play, and age—on a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life-risks and outcomes.[1] In the past year or…