ACOs Lack Data on Patient Social Needs, Community Partners – Health Data Management

Read article - Quotes Genevra Murray, research scientist at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, who collaborated with colleagues from the University of California Berkeley and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on research that found that accountable care organizations have major challenges integrating social services with medical care, including a lack of data on their patients' social needs and the capabilities of community partners. "Policies that could facilitate the integration of social determinants include providing sustainable funding, implementing local and regional networking initiatives to facilitate partnership development, and developing standardized data on community-based organizations' services and quality to aid providers that seek partners," says Murray.