Improving Medication Adherence With SDoH

Discover how a global healthcare organization leveraged SDoH to better understand patients and their risk profiles.

Medication adherence plays an essential role in patient healthcare outcomes, yet many patients struggle to stay compliant with their regimens. Social determinants of health (SDoH) data can be used to better understand how a patient's environment and lifestyle affects their ability to manage medications.

By leveraging SDoH data, healthcare organizations can gain insight into how the social factors of a patient’s life may influence their risk profile and improve prediction and stratification for medication adherence and management. This customer success story explores how one global healthcare organization leveraged SDoH data to gain deeper insights into how they could improve medication adherence.

How Do Social Determinants Affect Value-Based Caring Healthcare Models?

The shift from fee-for-service to value-based care has forced healthcare organizations to recalibrate how care is delivered and quality measured.  By incorporating SDoH data into care models, health organizations can focus on how environmental and social factors interact with patients' risk profiles and how they may affect adherence.

SDoH data can be used to identify patterns of behavior or other factors that could have an impact on medication adherence. This helps healthcare organizations develop more tailored care plans that are better suited to a patient's individual needs.

As a result, medication adherence programs have arisen to improve patient adherence to treatment regimens to help improve patient outcomes as well as the quality of care. The inclusion of SDoH data has enabled these programs to gain a better understanding of how patients interact with their environment and how this impacts their risk profile. By incorporating social determinants of health (SDoH) in healthcare strategies, organizations are empowered to create more personalized support systems that fulfill the unique needs of each patient.

“Because value-based care is done completely at risk, modeling and predictive capability are essential in achieving the triple aim; better care, lower cost, and healthier people.” – Program Director at Global Healthcare Organization 

This customer success story details how a large healthcare organization improved their modeling predictions by incorporating Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) into the data they already had on patients. Taking this step forward allowed them to consider both clinical and claims information to obtain more detailed results.

Leveraging social determinants of health data can help healthcare organizations gain deeper insight into how the social factors of a patient’s life may influence their risk profile and improve prediction and stratification for medication adherence and management.

Download the case study to uncover how SDoH can be used to improve medication adherence strategies and how it can help organizations achieve better outcomes.

• The importance of SDoH when it comes to medication adherence and providing interventions when necessary.
• The methodology used in the study to identify potential improvements to their modeling predictions.
• Study outcomes by incorporating social determinants of health scores and attributes