and LOINC® codes. This would include the ability to record a decision not to provide patient’s the information. health is shaped largely by life circumstances that fall outside the An individual’s traditional health care system and include social, psychological, and behavioral factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, family support systems, stress, housing, nutrition, income, and education. This proposed certification criterion to further the collection and use of such patient data is not intended to be comprehensive; rather, it reflects efforts to further HHS priorities to transform health delivery, to reduce health disparities, and to achieve the overarching goals of the National Quality Strategy. In particular, the proposed certification criterion supports efforts to reduce disparities and efforts to collect patient social, psychological, and behavioral data for improved health care, such as by aligning with recommendations from HHS and the Institute of Medicine. We believe that offering certification that would require a Health IT Module to enable a user to record, change, and access a social, data would psychological, and behavioral patient’s assist a wide array of stakeholders (e.g., providers, consumers, payors, community-based organizations, and state and local governments) in better understanding how this data may adversely affect health. Ultimately, this can lead to better health outcomes for these populations through improved patient care, quality improvement, health equity, and clinical decision support based on individual factors. We also believe the self-reporting of information by individuals in response to the questions included in these social, psychological, and behavioral measures (i.e., the question and answer sets below) could be utilized for the EHR Incentive Programs Stage 3 which proposes an objective on patient engagement, including patient-generated health data. For more information,
and LOINC® codes. This would include the ability to record a patient’s decision not to provide the information. An individual’s health is shaped largely by life circumstances that fall outside the traditional health care system and include social, psychological, and behavioral factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, family support systems, stress, housing, nutrition, income, and education. This proposed certification criterion to further the collection and use of such patient data is not intended to be comprehensive; rather, it reflects efforts to further HHS priorities to transform health delivery, to reduce health disparities, and to achieve the overarching goals of the National Quality Strategy. In particular, the proposed certification criterion supports efforts to reduce disparities and efforts to collect patient social, psychological, and behavioral data for improved health care, such as by aligning with recommendations from HHS and the Institute of Medicine. We believe that offering certification that would require a Health IT Module to enable a user to record, change, and access a patient’s social, psychological, and behavioral data would assist a wide array of stakeholders (e.g., providers, consumers, payors, community-based organizations, and state and local governments) in better understanding how this data may adversely affect health. Ultimately, this can lead to better health outcomes for these populations through improved patient care, quality improvement, health equity, and clinical decision support based on individual factors. We also believe the self-reporting of information by individuals in response to the questions included in these social, psychological, and behavioral measures (i.e., the question and answer sets below) could be utilized for the EHR Incentive Programs Stage 3 which proposes an objective on patient engagement, including patient-generated health data. For more information,
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