{"id":2668,"date":"2023-01-24T10:56:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T10:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vozo.xyz\/blog\/?p=2668"},"modified":"2024-02-20T09:59:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T09:59:25","slug":"integrating-sdoh-into-ehrs-a-quality-improvement-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vozohealth.com\/blog\/integrating-sdoh-into-ehrs-a-quality-improvement-approach","title":{"rendered":"Integrating SDOH into EHRs: A Quality Improvement Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The inclusion of <strong>Social Determinants Of Health (SDOH) <\/strong>screening <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vozo.xyz\/electronic-health-record-ehr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\">EHR integration<\/a> <\/strong>has already increased the SDOH documentation by three times in patient records at some primary care centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is SDOH and what are SDOH factors?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the social and economic factors that can impact an individual&#8217;s health and well-being. Some examples of SDOH factors include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Income and poverty level<\/li><li>Education level<\/li><li>Employment status<\/li><li>Housing and living conditions<\/li><li>Food security and access to healthy food<\/li><li>Transportation<\/li><li>Neighbourhood and community characteristics<\/li><li>Social support networks<\/li><li>Race and ethnicity<\/li><li>Immigration status<\/li><li>Sexual orientation and gender identity<\/li><li>Access to healthcare and health insurance<\/li><li>Environmental factors<\/li><li>Access to technology and the internet<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These factors can interact and influence one another and can have a significant impact on an individual&#8217;s health outcomes, such as increasing the risk of chronic diseases, mental health conditions, and premature death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vozo.xyz\/blog\/ehr-telehealth-integration-how-vozo-helps-in-tackling-your-hardest-challenges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"> EHR Telehealth Integration: How Vozo Helps In Tackling Your Hardest Challenges<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>SDOH Documentation Challenge &amp; Primary care EHR Solution<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ehrintelligence.com\/news\/tips-to-integrate-social-determinants-of-health-data-into-the-ehr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\">National Academy of Medicine, <\/a><\/strong>80 to 90% of benefactors of healthy outcomes for a population are social determinants of health (SDOH), like food insecurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But managing such a large population isn\u2019t kids&#8217; play and SDOH factors are not often available in the EHR at the point of care. The people who document SDOH factors save the information in their own templates so the data is not available within the primary care provider\u2019s EHR workflow. This challenge can be overcome by <strong>SDOH EHR integration. <\/strong>This ensures SDOH data access to primary care providers anytime, anywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Impact of EHR Integration on SDOH Documentation<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>EHR (electronic health record) integration<\/strong> can enhance <strong>SDOH (social determinants of health) documentation<\/strong> by allowing a more efficient and comprehensive collection of patient information.&nbsp;<\/li><li>This includes demographic data, financial status, education level, housing and transportation, food security, and other social factors that can impact a patient&#8217;s health.&nbsp;<\/li><li>With EHR integration, healthcare providers can easily access and analyze this information, leading to more informed and personalized treatment plans.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Additionally, EHR integration can facilitate communication and collaboration among different healthcare providers, enabling them better to coordinate care for patients with complex social needs.<\/li><li>The awareness about the risk and other factors that the patients deal with every day will be increased among clinical teams.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vozo.xyz\/blog\/5-quests-to-ask-yourself-before-integrating-labs-with-your-behavioral-health-ehrs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\">5 Quests To Ask Yourself Before Integrating Labs With Your Behavioral Health EHRs<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Cloud-based EHR Software from Vozo<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vozo.xyz\/electronic-health-record-ehr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\">Vozo EHR software<\/a><\/strong> is a cloud-based solution that<strong> <\/strong>provides a sophisticated, customizable, and integrated EHR. It saves physicians and practices from documentation burdens and has <strong>SDOH integration.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our customizable templates let physicians view patient records &amp; create case notes, and more from a single screen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vozo.xyz\/revenue-cycle-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"><strong>Vozo RCM<\/strong><\/a> integrated with EHR &amp; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vozo.xyz\/practice-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\">PM software<\/a><\/strong> offers greater efficiency and cost savings across the board. Our specialty-specific tools improve workflow, billing, scheduling, and documentation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our features &#8211; e-prescribing, security, patient portals, lab integration, cloud hosting, and more. We offer &#8211; the best means of ICD-10 standards. Easily identify healthcare gaps based on patient visits, diagnosis, and test results. Customize fields on Vozo EHR as you wish for detailed practice-wide financial analytics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>\u201cLet\u2019s make your practice more accessible to all with an effective EHR integration, together\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vozo.xyz\/talk-to-us\" style=\"border-radius:50px;background-color:#2250fc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Contact Us<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inclusion of Social Determinants Of Health (SDOH) screening EHR integration has already increased the SDOH documentation by three times in patient records at some primary care centers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,5,417,418],"class_list":["post-2668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ehr","tag-ehr","tag-ehr-software","tag-sdoh","tag-sdoh-documentation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vozohealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vozohealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vozohealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vozohealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vozohealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.vozohealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2725,"href":"https:\/\/www.vozohealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions\/2725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vozohealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vozohealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vozohealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vozohealth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}