Supporting Health Equity Via Data Management

Recently, a key goal of the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has been to promote health equity efforts. Doing so requires a deep understanding of how social determinants of health (SDoH) impact health outcomes. In a new Medical Economics article, Kamala Green discusses how data management is central to these efforts

According to Green, “Data collection is the critical first step in attaining health equity, as well as fostering innovation in health care. It’s futile to act without concrete information to support decision making. Collecting, analyzing and managing health care data at the micro and macro levels enables informed decisions that can help individuals and communities achieve their healthiest outcomes. Luckily, modern technology is capable of intelligently analyzing massive troves of data to identify patterns and abnormalities.”

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(Source: October 18^th, 2022)