The stakes in healthcare are high in and outside of clinical settings. And with mission driven organizations focused on making a difference, sometimes we need to make sure to stop and re-introduce ourselves to the industry, let you know what we’re up to, and how we’d like to work with and for you.
Hi, we’re Socially Determined.
Socially Determined is Your SDOH Data Partner and Thought Leader
We are the experts at the delivery of SDOH data, how to use it, and building the infrastructure and connections our clients need to put it to use. We’re singularly focused on helping organizations understand and intervene on social determinants of health. With that focus, we’ve worked to build the industry’s best SDOH dataset, combining a vast array of public and private sources. We have (in our opinion) the best data science team in healthcare working with that data to combine, validate, and bring it to our platform, SocialScape®.
Socially Determined Offers Person-level Data at Scale
Social determinants of health influence up to 80% of health outcomes. And people across healthcare are working hard to deliver on a solution. However, nobody quite has what we offer. Our datasets go beyond zip codes, communities, and neighborhoods (though those views are available). We drill down to the individual level. We provide person-level scores on five unique SDOH risk domains: Finance, food, housing, transportation, and health literacy. “Each of these social risk domains have a unique and complex impact on health and our domain-specific data assets offer valuable insight into how to intervene to improve health outcomes and through that action, lower the overall cost of care.
Socially Determined Matches Claims Data to SDOH Scoring
Our risk data is useful on its own, but we can also easily ingest client claims data to deliver matched profiles between individual social needs and health status. In doing so, we make sure any interventions on social risk undertaken by a customer leave a broad-spectrum approach in the past. Our platform and dataset ensure support goes to the people who need it most to make the greatest impact on health outcomes and cost savings at a much lower overhead, freeing up more resources to continue that targeted effort. With that accuracy, more people end up in a better situation than the older, reactive, wide-net approaches to SDOH interventions.
Socially Determined Delivers New Approaches to Patient Segmentation and Patient Engagement
Our person-level data scales up from people to households to communities and beyond. Whether an organization wants to segment populations based purely on social need to deliver better care intervention, or refine to specific conditions via claims data, Socially Determined is ready. Our data also applies to any line of business or population but, for a value-based care example, with changes to Medicaid patient texting, a payer could identify all patients on dialysis, compare that to how their conditions have progressed, identify those at risk for transportation issues, and immediately connect to provide a direct solution.
Some of your most costly patients aren’t necessarily the sickest, or at least they shouldn’t be. With the right social supports, we free up healthcare resources to focus on costs driven by healthcare needs, vs costs that are a result of external social factors or behaviors.
Patients are now healthier; their chronic conditions are more managed. Their cost of care plumets from lower ED utilization and there are fewer complications from a lack of reliable access to care. Finally, the overhead from broad, scattershot approaches to intervention diminish to provide real, targeted returns on investment.
Socially Determined Goes Beyond VBC Populations and Delivers Results to Commercial Partners
While we’ve caught the eye of payers and risk bearing providers looking to support value-based care populations like Medicaid, we also have a significant footprint with commercial partners and benefit consulting firms.
People across the country with consistent employment and benefits are still very often working in areas that lack access to primary care physicians, nutritious food, or reliable transportation infrastructure. For commercial payers, these insights can help them more readily adopt low cost, high impact options for their members improving quality of life and becoming increasingly more competitive to employers every contracting and enrollment season.
Beyond that, we work with benefit consulting firms, giving them a leg-up on the competition. No more generic “wellness” packages; with our data, it’s about tailored offerings that address specific needs, lowering premiums and improving quality of life for beneficiaries. That means staff happy with their healthcare coverage, and companies happy with their benefit consulting firms.
Socially Determined’s Financial Impact is Evaluated by a Trusted Third Party
We’ve partnered with Mathematica, a globally trusted company with nearly a century of research and analysis expertise. Cost savings ROI can be extremely difficult to calculate in general, it’s one of the reasons SDOH interventions have been a challenge to implement at scale. To make sure the value is seen and leveraged to keep delivering, we have partnered with the best.
Briefly put, Mathematica conducts independent financial impact modeling using actuarially accepted methodologies. This refines outputs of eligible interventions through the establishment of baseline outcomes alongside six-month comparative analyses.
Thanks to Mathematica, we offer our partners unmatched predictive targeting of financial impact. As a result, we can speak to that value and let any customer, current or future, move forward with confidence that they are making a difference in people’s lives and on the bottom line. We work to ensure a robust financial future that allows them to continue their critical work across nearly every segment of healthcare.
Socially Determined’s Data Changes the Face of Revenue Cycle and Provider Network Optimization
Revenue cycle management is a developing opportunity for organizations leveraging SDOH data. It’s also a critical one. Our partners have already seen success using our social risk data to both help target enrollment for federal, risk bearing coverage and to identify quality measure blockers.
For example, high risk, high need patients existing outside of the healthcare system can be identified and reached. Once enrolled, care managers use disease state data (via claims) and SDOH scores to improve outcomes, better capture risk, and intervene on social factors impacting RAF. They also address any non-clinical issues that are disrupting quality measures, readmission rates, etc.
Similarly, with integrated risk score and risk factor data, provider networks can understand a patient’s life and impacts disrupting their health to make more informed decisions about focused social needs interventions. With Socially Determined, the entire healthcare system can pull levers that were previously out of reach and start closing care gaps that seemed impossible to identify, let alone fill.
Socially Determined Makes SDOH Data Actionable (And help our partners put it to work).
Healthcare has been trying to crack the code on actionable social determinants of health data for decades. So why us? Why now? How did we do it?
The short answer is “no shortcuts.”
The long answer is we have a robust data supply chain that blends a large, carefully selected array of trusted private and public sources. Combine that with our world class data science team that works through that data with a blend of exceptional know-how and cutting-edge methodology and tech.
Our datasets are updated regularly to make sure everything is complete and accurate, providing best in class insights for all, including those in the value-based care space where timely interventions to impact quality scores, outcomes, and the ability to intervene on costly disease progression year-over-year.
In parallel, our platform offers an unobstructed view of the contours and concentrations of social risk along seven key domains (finances, food, housing, transportation, health literacy, and digital & social connectivity). It is designed to be clean, clear, and easy to use while at the same time meeting, and far exceeding, HITRUST standards.
We’re versatile, too. Want to add our social risk scoring to your claims data? No problem. Want our data input into your system? We’ve got you covered. Do you have a new idea about what’s possible for your organization with the right SDOH partner? Let’s talk.
It’s simple, really. From our founder and CEO to every department in our company, we’re focused on making sure our customers can confidently and comfortably say that social determinants of health are now an understandable, addressable part of the healthcare challenges in this country. We want a world where diseases don’t progress because of SDOH and where the cost of care is focused on results that directly improve the quality of life for as many people as possible.
We’re Socially Determined. And we’re the SDOH thought leader and partner you’ve been looking for.