What: During this event, experts from health systems, payers and community organizations provide insights into their experiences implementing Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Organizational Maturity Models, and how they applied these models to ensure their SDOH programs led to better health outcomes.

Background: The importance of SDOH data isn’t a mystery. Recent studies have found that only 20% of population health outcomes are determined by medical care — and the remaining 80% can be traced back to SDOH. Much of the healthcare industry has embraced this knowledge; they’ve implemented SDOH programs that have holistically improved patients’ lives.

But the innovation doesn’t end with implementation. It takes deliberate analysis, planning and feedback to ensure that the SDOH program works, and keeps working.

Speakers

• Andrea Green, Director, Healthcare Strategy LexisNexis
• Stacy Ignoffo, Executive Director, Community Health Innovations, Mount Sinai Research
• Melissa Quick, Co-chair, Aligning for Health
• Samantha Meklir, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT

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Additional Resources

UnitedHealth Group recognizes health inequities exist because of historical and present-day realities associated with racism and discrimination that impact health care access, housing, education, employment and socio-economic status. For more than two decades UHG championed efforts to address these issues broadly and help people achieve optimal health and quality of life.

Overview
A key goal of a modern public health system should be to advance health equity. In the fourth webinar in EHI’s Public Health Modernization Series, experts discussed how public health efforts should align to promote health equity, the importance of ensuring public health data is reflective of populations served, and how social determinants of health (SDOH) data impact public health.

Speakers

• Elizabeth Cope, PhD, MPH, Senior Director, Health Systems Improvement and Public and Population Health, AcademyHealth
• Tannaz Rasouli, MPH, Sr. Director of Public Policy and Strategic Outreach, Association of American Medical Colleges
• Lashell Thomas, MPH, FACHE, PMP®, Senior Project Manager, Aetna/CVS Health Medicaid

OVERVIEW

As health delivery services evolve and technology advances, healthcare professionals must keep pushing for equity in healthcare. Providers, hospitals, researchers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and health systems play vital roles in maintaining equity in care delivery.

In this webinar, leading thinkers discussed the importance of:

• Raising disease awareness and education;
• Increasing health care and screening access;
• Improving health outcomes for medically underserved populations; and
• Addressing the financial burdens of care resulting from social determinants of health.

During the webinar, attendees learned about the immediate actions and solutions that community health leaders and stakeholders can implement to help their populations maintain equity in health care services.

Speakers

• Patricia Doykos, Executive Director, Health Equity, Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS)
• Danielle Jones, Director of Diversity and Health Equity, American Academy of Family Physicians
• Annette Powers, Vice President, Access Marketing, Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS)
• Holly Spinks, RN, Chief Nursing Officer & Head of Business Partnerships, Jasper Health