Improving Data Quality to Target Social Determinants of Health

Although increasing efforts have been made to address social determinants of health (SDoH) to improve health equity, poor or inconsistent data sources get in the way of progress. The American Medical Association (AMA) has put forward several initiatives to help address SDoH data standards that encourage interoperability.

According to Andis Robeznieks, “AMA efforts toward this include: Launching the AMA Integrated Health Model Initiative (IMHI) data-standards group, which established a team of recognized leaders from the global health care data standards community to work on how to more accurately capture SDOH data.”

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(Source: AMA, January 12^th, 2023)