Data’s Impact on Health Equity: Sharing Data for Humanity

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Posted By: Healthcare NOW Radio Host July 23, 2024

Host Beth Friedman talks with FinThrive’s Director of Innovation and Emerging Markets, Brian Urban. Together, they discuss the Data Humanity Lab, a public health tool that enables hospitals, health systems, and communities to identify health inequities and close gaps.

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Takeaways

  • FinThrive’s Data Humanity Lab was launched as a joint project with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Dat for Action (HD4A) and Utica University to examine the impact of socioeconomic factors on health outcomes.
  • The initial study compared 130 economic variables at the ZIP code plus 4 and plus 11 levels in 1.3 million New York neighborhoods from 2019 to 2021. The study revealed that Black, Hispanic, and single-parent households suffered the most during the 2020 pandemic.
  • Since then, the project continues to bring together public health data, encounter information, and other indicators to demonstrate that regardless of income change, race and residence in a specific community are direct determinants of economic stability.
  • Today the data is available to researchers, providers, and payers to inform population health and community programs, policy changes, and innovation. It is being used to accelerate health equity within the U.S. healthcare ecosystem.
  • FinThrive and CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Health System recently spoke about the Data Humanity Lab at the HFMA National Conference in Las Vegas. They presented how the Lab’s donated SDOH data is being used to drive health equity initiatives for a cohort of 30K CHRISTUS patients.

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