Comagine Health Blog
By now we’ve all heard the staggering rates of overdoses — over 100,000 dead in one year. There is another side to this story. The side of redemption, hope, recovery.
It is estimated that over 20 million people are in recovery from addiction.
September is National Recovery Month, an observance held annually to promote evidence-based treatment and recovery practices, acknowledge the strong and proud recovery community, and highlight the dedication of providers and community members across the United States that make all forms of recovery possible. National Recovery Month began in 1989 by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), originally under the name “Treatment Works! Month” to increase…
Health data interoperability can encompass different types of data: Clinical data, social determinants of health (SDOH) data, community-based organization (CBOs) services and appointments data, and claims data, to name several.
Health data interoperability can involve many parties: Patients and families; providers, surgery centers, lab and imaging centers, hospitals, health systems and pharmacies; dentists; allied health personnel; public health; community-based organizations; state…
Even before COVID-19, we knew that where a person lived impacted their health and well-being. But the pandemic has laid bare profound health disparities caused by structural inequity in communities across the U.S. To remove these inequities and eliminate health disparities, communities must engage people with lived experience to create systems that address the social determinants of health (SDOH).
Social determinants of health are the conditions in the environments where people are…