Addressing Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)

Addressing Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)

Improve health equity initiatives by identifying patient level social determinants of health (SDOH), buried in clinical notes. Automatically extract SDOH information with award winning artificial intelligence.

Out-of-the-box support for health equity

It is crucial to address SDOH, including food insecurity, unemployment, and poverty, to progress toward health equity. SDOH have been shown to have a greater influence on health than either genetic factors or access to healthcare services alone.

IQVIA’s team has over 20 years’ experience in NLP and significant domain knowledge within healthcare, our out-of-the-box SDOH model is comprised of 14 multi-layered topics such as financial insecurity and transportation issues, providing a high-level of accuracy and flexible approach which can be used by non-coders and understood by clinicians.

BENEFITS

Drive health equity initiatives with AI enabled technology

Quickly establish a more holistic view of the patient with an out-of-the-box Solution. Our technology combines award-winning pre-trained models with the only natural language pipeline that is completely configurable both programmatically and through a user interface.

Where [ED social workers] were spending 80% of their time on chart review, they now can spend that 80% making an impact on the patient.

Nirav Shah,, M.D., M.P.H.
Medical director of quality innovation and clinical practice analytics
NorthShore - Edward-Elmhurst Health

FEATURES

Extract patient level SDOH data

With IQVIA NLP, SDOH information is normalized to 14 topics, with different numbers of classes per topic. The IQVIA NLP engine identifies misspellings, synonyms, context, negations, etc to ensure that information in the medical record is extracted as it was meant by the clinician who entered it.

Unlock Patient-Level SDOH with IQVIA NLP

From identifying and collecting health equity/social determinants of health (SDOH) data, to determining what that data is telling you, IQVIA has the expertise to assess your organizations readiness and put tangible strategies and plans in place.

Closing Care Gaps using SDOH

Learn how NorthShore — Edward–Elmhurst Health identified 56% more at-risk patients based on SDOH, enabling targeted intervention to patients in need.

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