This perspective highlights the importance of addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) in patient health outcomes and health inequity, a global problem exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. We provide a broad discussion on current developments...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Jan 1, 2024
Social determinants of health (SDoH) significantly impacts health outcomes and contributes to perpetuating health disparities across healthcare applications. However, automatic extraction of SDoH information from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is c...
Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien
Jan 1, 2024
OBJECTIVE: To understand the perspectives of primary care clinicians and health system leaders on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to derive information about patients' social determinants of health.
PURPOSE: Information about social determinants of health (SDOH) is essential for primary care clinicians in the delivery of equitable, comprehensive care, as well as for program planning and resource allocation. SDOH are rarely captured consistently ...
The western journal of emergency medicine
Sep 1, 2023
Social determinants of health (SDoH) are known to impact the health and well-being of patients. However, information regarding them is not always collected in healthcare interactions, and healthcare professionals are not always well-trained or equip...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jul 19, 2023
OBJECTIVE: The impact of social determinants of health (SDoH) on patients' healthcare quality and the disparity is well known. Many SDoH items are not coded in structured forms in electronic health records. These items are often captured in free-text...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jul 19, 2023
OBJECTIVE: The n2c2/UW SDOH Challenge explores the extraction of social determinant of health (SDOH) information from clinical notes. The objectives include the advancement of natural language processing (NLP) information extraction techniques for SD...
BACKGROUND: Health care systems in the United States are increasingly interested in measuring and addressing social determinants of health (SDoH). Advances in electronic health record systems and Natural Language Processing (NLP) create a unique oppo...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 25, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Social determinants of health (SDoH) are nonclinical dispositions that impact patient health risks and clinical outcomes. Leveraging SDoH in clinical decision-making can potentially improve diagnosis, treatment planning, and patient outcom...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Dec 9, 2020
Accumulating evidence demonstrates the impact of bias that reflects social inequality on the performance of machine learning (ML) models in health care. Given their intended placement within healthcare decision making more broadly, ML tools require a...
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