Supporting the Social Determinants of Health Infrastructure with Federal Funding

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The growing public focus on social determinants of health (SDoH) spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic has outstripped the infrastructure in place to address issues of health equity. According to several stakeholders, increased federal funding is key to advancing these goals and developing a tech infrastructure that can support SDoH-related efforts

According to McKinsey & Company, “Stakeholders largely cite funding as the largest barrier to real progress. Many stakeholders know of available funding for delivering services such as food assistance, housing support, and transportation. However, options for funding data, analytics, and technology infrastructure that can optimize efforts to deliver services are less well-known. But this funding does indeed exist. And it can be used to support data integration (collating social-needs data alongside clinical and other data) and screening and referral capabilities (business processes and capabilities that include SDoH data sets to drive enrollment into targeted case management profiles for patients’ risk profile).”

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(Source: McKinsey & Company, November 1^st, 2022)