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Regenstrief Foundation Awards $4.4 M to Standardize SDOH Info in EHRs
The Regenstrief Foundation awarded a $4.4 million grant to LOINC and Health Data Standards located at the Regenstrief Institute https://www.regenstrief.org, to expand the goal to standardize Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) information.
The Regenstrief Foundation, an in independent non-profit foundation based in Indiana, provides grants for innovative research directed towards improving the efficiency, quality, and accessibility of healthcare.
The plan is to make this information available in EHRs so the data will be more available to clinical care professionals, in order to effectively address health inequities in our society.
The unequal distribution of income, food, safety, and access to healthcare has been recognized as the root cause of health disparities. Currently, the data on these factors are rarely well documented within a patient's EHR.
The information that is captured, generally appears in varied, non-standardized terminologies, disconnected from clinical data, so it can be almost impossible to use.
The project to be led by LOINC and the Health Data Standards and Health Level Seven's (HL7) International's Gravity Project, https://www.gravityproject.net, consists of a multi-stakeholder public collaborative of 2,500+ participants.
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The project is focused on developing consensus driven state standards to support the collection, use, and then use the data to address SDOH. The LOINC, and Health Data Standards team will create, identify, and build a critical mass of standardized SDOH data elements to then benefit patients, clinicians, and researchers.
This work will enable clinicians to monitor, evaluate, and address patients in terms of social and clinical needs that will positively impact individual patients. The plan is to support healthcare systems and government agencies, so they are able to track health inequities at the population level.
The project can also help develop more research on health disparities by using studies to more effectively evaluate the impact of inequities in healthcare access, care delivery, and patient outcomes.