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Getting Started with an SDOH Screening Tool

How do you understand you members Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) needs? Like most health plans, health systems or hospital systems you have data on the person and their medical records or their claim history. What you are missing is all of the information about their social conditions. Where they live, how well they can communicate, financial impact on food, housing or transportation. A SDOH screening tool combines your internal member data with external data to provide you with initial risk scores and hot spots to target what your members need.

Would you like to know how many members are in a food desert? Which ones are most likely to live in an area that has difficulty with English? Are you members living in areas with crowded housing and apartments impacting their asthma?

Understanding the social determinants of your member population is critical to your ability to help directly or leverage existing social services in the area. Get started today with a SDOH assessment tool to see how which conditions your members are mostly impacted by. Then create campaigns to outreach and identify members with specific issues.

Improve your members outcomes by identifying, tagging and tracking their individual SDOH needs from the larger community. Improve member quality of life and health while decreasing your overall cost of care.

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An SDOH survey tool for a new client starts with a combination of data from:

Client Data (Claim Summary, Conditions, MLR, etc)
Social Data (Census Information, Support Services)
SDOH Member Management Solution (AI, Alogithms)

The combination of data and our software enables quick identification of members that have potential SDOH needs based on a combination of factors. Once members are identified. Create specific campaigns to target their conditions to receive feedback on their unique SDOH condition. Quickly identify and start working with members to improve their SDOH conditions.

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Our SDOH software includes an easy to use SDOH screening tool survey that lets you interview people and record their conditions. Then work with partners to help with the identified conditions to get more people the help they need.

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Understanding SDOH Needs

Social determinants of health data is widespread and hard to collect and manage. Healthcare organizations have a wealth of information on their members or patients and the conditions that they have. Combining the data from an organization with external SDOH data can help you understand and improve overall population health. Start using a SDOH assessment tool to understand you member populations needs.

In order to improve health equity. You need to interpret the data for a local community and what specific issues does that area need to help improve healthcare. The more detailed the information in a geographical area the better you will be able to target your outreach. What are determinants of health?

Examples of core determinants of health include:

Access to PCP
Access to Urgent Care or ER
Access to education
Availability of health food options
Availability of safe housing
Access to child care
Language Barriers
Literacy Issues
Environmental conditions
Transportation options
Public safety
Schools and recreational

The more insights you can gain on your member or patients regarding their determinants of health the more targeted approach you can deliver. Healthcare organizations need to identify local social services that can help improve their population by decreasing health disparities.

SDOH Screening Tool for Health Impact

Understanding what Social Determinants of Health conditions are impacting your population as a whole and individually are key to being able to create programs to start addressing needs. How do you gather this information in order to help people? Some people will be more willing to share their personal information in order to get assistance. Others will not regardless of need. Create a SDOH assessment that has the critical questions that you need and have partners or the ability to help with.