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Industry Perspectives: Acting on social determinants of health data in rural healthcare
Healthcare Strategies
16 minutes 58 seconds
7 months ago
Industry Perspectives: Acting on social determinants of health data in rural healthcare
Some might balk at the idea that a healthcare system would struggle to gather social determinants of health data in 2025. But for a rural healthcare system where every employee already fulfills multiple roles and the workforce is stretched thin, collecting this data can feel impossible to add to the workflow. Today's guest shares how to make this impossible task more possible for rural healthcare.
Featuring: Susan Gutjahr, HIT Director and Compliance Officer, Sparta Community Hospital
In this episode, we'll cover
Why collecting social determinants of health data is so challenging for rural healthcare systems
How Sparta Community Hospital navigated these challenges
Putting rural healthcare challenges in perspective
and more!
References
Top Patient Engagement Challenges Affecting Rural Healthcare
State of U.S. rural hospitals: No margin, no mission
Building a care team to address social determinants of health
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