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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Healthcare IT Today

Andrew Eye, CEO of the healthcare data science company ClosedLoop , estimates that about 15% of physicians collect SDoH-related data from patients and use it to assess their needs. According to vice president Ted Hill, it can modernize how public health agencies serve today’s needs.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

So let’s take inventory: software for medical research, new sensor technology that provides activity data and remote diagnostics, health records, medical clinics and a powerful soft asset – consumer trust. Google started a health-records initiative in 2008, but shut it down by 2011, citing poor adoption.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

Simultaneously, these biomarkers must be of sufficient direct value to patients to justify their participation in the data-collection effort. Greater investment in the science of digital biomarkers is needed to evaluate the value of mobile health data for clinical use. “Actions for Stakeholders in Mobile Health.