Armed with this enriched picture of patient population risk, the ACO is much better positioned to develop a population health program that more precisely identifies patients’ care needs.
Social factors contribute significantly to individual patients’ health and well-being, but frequently aren’t accounted for in population heath programs simply because HCOs don’t know what they don’t know about certain patients. NLP enables payers and providers to mine unstructured data for hidden insights — important SDoH patient information hidden in free-text clinical notes — and advance their population health management efforts.
About the author: Elizabeth Marshall MD, MBA is the director of clinical analytics at LinguamaticsBack to HCB News
