Innovaccer launches Social Determinants of Health portal

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Silicon Valley-headquartered healthcare analytics company Innovaccer launched the Social Determinants of Health Portal, a free tool designed to help providers understand and monitor the impacts of social determinants of health on patient population across every county, and work toward achieving better health outcomes.

The portal incorporates authentic data brought in from multiple validated sources, spanning the past six years and describing the state and growth of social determinants for over 3,000 counties in the United States. The deeply-researched data is presented on a national, state and county level with color-coded line charts, heat maps, and bar graphs.

The social determinants of health have been known to affect a person’s health, access to care, cost incurred, and the outcomes. As healthcare moves toward targeted, value-based care delivery, it is important for providers to understand social determinants and gain momentum into designing critical parts of care delivery.

“We realized that simply handing out medication isn’t enough and there’s need to deal with the real problem, namely addressing the social determinants of health,” Abhinav Shashank, Co-Founder and CEO of Innovaccer, said in a statement. “Physicians can incorporate the insights from the Social Determinants of Health portal in their day-to-day practice, getting appropriate resources and support from partners in the community, and find out what’s available to assist patients in dealing with their social circumstances.”

Innovaccer’s Social Determinants of Health portal has been created to help various members of the community — including physicians, payers, care coordinators, patients and others — to monitor and address the most persistent issues in the healthcare industry. The tool provides average risk score prevailing in a county with an indication of how risk-prone or healthy that county is.

Additionally, it can be leveraged by any healthcare system or an ACO that wishes to drill down further to an individual level and understand the effects of social determinants on every patient by providing additional data, and make an informed choice with the aim to realize strategic value-based reimbursement goals.