Poster presented at the OHIMA 2023 Annual Meeting & Trade Show
by Kelly Fast
Assistant Director, Health Science and Technology
Charter Oak State College
The Villages, Florida, United States
Consumer Health Informatics: A Study of the Telehealth Environment and
Collection of Social Determinants of Health, Pre- and Mid-Pandemic
Background: Before COVID-19 telehealth was already in existence as a means to deliver healthcare remotely. During COVID-19 research has proven telehealth became a way of delivering care to reduce risk of exposure to disease within the in-person care environment.
Objective: This study was done to research the collection of social determinants of health (SDOH) data and telemedicine in 2018 and 2021. It evaluates a lens into whether telehealth visits have impacted the collection of SDOH data by healthcare providers. This study aimed to assess and analyze whether the care environment of telehealth increased the collection of SDOH data during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study has a focus on data that can reveal if increasing use of telehealth during the pandemic has a correlation with increasing collection of SDOH data in the consumer health informatics (CHI) discipline.
Keywords: COVID, pandemic, Social Determinants of Health, SDOH, telehealth, telemedicine, Consumer Health Informatics, CHIDescription TBD
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