With millions of individuals entering the health care system for the first time and others leveraging health exchanges to modify benefits, consistency and completeness of their clinical histories can be compromised, which can negatively impact individual health outcomes.
Identifying and leveraging new and traditional data sources, including public records such as income, employment, education and neighborhood crime rates can help provide a more complete and robust assessment of an individual’s health risk.
“Using Traditional Data Sources to Better Understand and Reduce Health Risk, Improve Quality” explores untraditional data sources and their value when incorporated into a health plan’s overall population health management strategy. |