{"id":20104,"date":"2020-07-08T19:07:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T19:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/?p=20104"},"modified":"2020-07-08T19:07:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T19:07:38","slug":"ahip-payers-are-addressing-socioeconomic-needs-during-covid-19-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/ahip-payers-are-addressing-socioeconomic-needs-during-covid-19-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"AHIP: Payers Are Addressing Socioeconomic Needs During COVID-19 and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As new challenges continue to emerge around the COVID-19 pandemic, health payers are looking for new ways to address Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), according to <a href=\"https:\/\/healthpayerintelligence.com\/news\/6-covid-19-social-determinants-of-health-payers-pivoted-to-meet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">America\u2019s Health Insurance Plans<\/a> (AHIP).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Americans isolated in their homes and over 40 million recently unemployed, the need to address food insecurity, housing instability, and social isolation is greater than ever,\u201d stated AHIP in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahip.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Socioeconomic-Needs-Innovation-Brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new innovation brief.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The innovation brief discusses how health insurance providers, local healthcare and social service providers, communities, and other partners are all rallying together to innovate and build new service delivery models to provide critical resources to people experiencing greater socioeconomic needs during this time.<\/p>\n<p>It also highlights six key areas where payers have had to adapt their traditional SDOH strategies, which are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 Virtual Access to Care, Telehealth<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u2022 <strong>Food<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u2022 Transportation<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u2022 Housing<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u2022 Employment<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u2022 Identifying at-Risk Populations for COVID-19<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This AHIP innovation brief also reinforces the true value of SDOH strategies for payers, now and into the future of the \u201cnew normal.\u201d The right health data management platform can play a critical role in these efforts.<\/p>\n<p>For example, IMAT Solutions\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/harnessing-your-data\/\">robust data management platform<\/a>\u00a0helps payers to better align claims and clinical systems to inform and drive new SDOH and population health initiatives, as well as help to measure the outcomes of these efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Leveraging Natural Language Processing (NLP), IMAT customers have been able to identify SDOH indicators that already exist within their data to better identify those at risk. From Provider Dashboards to Business Intelligence tools to longitudinal patient charts, IMAT\u2019s Health Data Analytic capabilities can transform population health and risk management for payers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To learn more about how payers can best harness their data for improved analytics, interoperability and outcomes, please click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/imatsolutions.com\/index.php\/harnessing-your-data\/\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As new challenges continue to emerge around the COVID-19 pandemic, health payers are looking for new ways to address Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), according to America\u2019s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). \u201cWith Americans isolated in their homes and over 40 million recently unemployed, the need to address food insecurity, housing instability, and social isolation is greater than ever,\u201d stated AHIP in this new innovation brief. 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