BACKGROUND: Risk adjustment models are employed to prevent adverse selection, anticipate budgetary reserve needs, and offer care management services to high-risk individuals. We aimed to address two unknowns about risk adjustment: whether machine lea...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Mar 4, 2020
Accessing patients' social needs is a critical challenge at emergency departments (EDs). However, most EDs do not have extra staff to administer screeners, and without personnel administration, response rates are low especially for low health literac...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Mar 4, 2020
Social Determinants of Health, including marital status, are becoming increasingly identified as key drivers of health care utilization. This paper describes a robust method to determine the marital status of patients using structured and unstructure...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
Social and behavioral determinants of health (SBDH) are environmental and behavioral factors that are increasingly recognized for their impact on health outcomes. We describe ongoing research to extract SBDH related to sexual health from clinical doc...
IMPORTANCE: Data from electronic health records (EHRs) are increasingly used for risk prediction. However, EHRs do not reliably collect sociodemographic and neighborhood information, which has been shown to be associated with health. The added contri...
As individuals age, there is potential for dramatic changes in the social and behavioral determinants that affect health status and outcomes. The importance of these determinants has been increasingly recognized in clinical decision-making. We sought...
The impact of social determinants of health (SDoH) on periodontal disease (PD) is critical to study, as a deeper understanding of SDoH offers significant potential to inform policy and help clinicians provide holistic patient care. The use of machine...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death globally and is expected to become the top global cause of death by 2030. Although the role of social determinants of health (SDoH) in CVD outcomes is well-established, integrating these fact...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
Postpartum depression (PPD) affects approximately 20% of women after childbirth and has complex etiology. Existing predictive models of PPD lack training on large, national datasets and comprehensive integration of clinical and social determinants. T...
Studies in health technology and informatics
May 15, 2025
Trauma care coordination in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), including personalization of resources based on social determinants of health (SDoH), is challenging for already strained healthcare providers. Patient SDoH data collection is inco...
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