Trust and patient-centeredness workgroup: action plan to collect and use social determinants of health data in patient-centered clinical decision support

This action plan describes critical needs for ensuring the incorporation of social determinants of health factors across the patient-centered clinical decision support lifecycle.

Developed through a literature review and key informant interviews with clinicians, researchers, and patient advocates, this action plan identifies needs, key challenges, current efforts, and future opportunities to support the collection and use of SDOH data for PC CDS. The needs include:

• Identifying clinical guidelines that incorporate SDOH to develop PC CDS tools
• Understanding what SDOH data PC CDS should incorporate
• Routinely capturing SDOH factors and establishing PC CDS workflows to support social risk-informed care
• Standardizing representation of SDOH data to support data capture and integration for PC CDS development
• Measuring the effectiveness of PC CDS tools that incorporate SDOH