FEATURE · SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
How Are Leaders in the Trenches
Strategizing around SDOH? At the Washington, D.C. Executive Exchange this spring, leaders offered a spectrum of perspectives on how the healthcare system is addressing the social determinants of health. By Mark Hagland
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he emergence of work around the social determinants of Health (“SDOH”) has advanced very rap-
idly in just a few short years, as the leaders of patient care organizations nationwide begin to create the architectures necessary to determine the SDOH-related needs of their patients, and collaborate with health plans and with community service orga- nizations to improve the health status of patients in lasting, deep ways unavailable in purely clinical settings. Leading off Healthcare Innovation’s recent Executive Exchange, held on May 9 at the Ritz- Carlton Tysons Corner in the Washington, D.C. suburb of McLean, Virginia, was a panel entitled “The Social Determinants of Health and the Path Forward in Population Health Management.”
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Mark Hagland led a distinguished panel of experts and leaders in that key area: Bryan O. Buckley, DrPH, M.P.H., direc- tor of health equity initiatives at the Washington, D.C.-based NCQA (National Committee for Quality Assurance); Tina Simmons, R.N., director of population health at Atlantic General Hospital (Berlin, Md.); Andrea Boudreaux, Psy.D., executive director at Children's National Hospital (Washington, D.C.); and Lauren Riplinger, J.D., chief public policy and impact officer at the Chicago- based American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). Early on in the discussion, Hagland
asked the panelists how they were looking at social determinants of health (SDOH)
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issues, in the policy context. Bryan Buckley noted that “We’re looking at a macro level at all of this. We’ve been looking at our HEDIS measures and really looking at things also from a policy perspective, as well as from a research and policy perspective. From a measurement perspective, we’ve been evolving forward our uni- versal foundation of measures, and
about 70 percent of our measures are in there, including our social needs screening tool, which includes transportation, hous- ing, and food issues, the three areas we’re
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