President, Ayin Health Solutions at Providence Health. Transforming Healthcare Through Value-Based Care/ Expert in Strategy, Innovation and Equity-Driven Solutions/ Proven Leader in Delivering Patient-Centered Outcomes
#Data is a powerful tool in making informed #healthcare decisions, but it needs to be inclusive, standardized and widely shared to have a true impact. Earlier this year, the Federal Office of Management and Budget updated their Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) standards for the collection and categorization of race and ethnicity data for the first time since 1997, informed by direct input from stakeholders across diverse populations. Now, federal agencies are tasked with creating action plans to implement these new standards within 18 months. As we continue to work towards #HealthEquity, developments like these data standards will help address disparities across populations and better inform community outreach and patient engagement efforts. I encourage you to dive deeper into this topic discussed in a recent TechTarget article from Hannah Nelson. BCBSA’s Keysha Brooks-Coley, who’s quoted in the article, says it best: “We cannot manage what we cannot measure.” Check it out here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gx7EFYdb
MIT MBA l Harvard MPH l Seattle 40 under 40 Honoree l Inc. 5000 Exec I CNO at NPHub, we help NP programs optimize student clinical placements
5moThank you so much for championing equity in healthcare Ruth Krystopolski!