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ACO Leverages Cloud Platform to Tackle Health Equity, SDOH Barriers

New Jersey-based Shore Quality Partners and Spatially Health have teamed up to identify and address health equity obstacles impacting the ACO’s patients.

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By Shania Kennedy

- New Jersey-based accountable care organization Shore Quality Partners will incorporate Spatially Health’s cloud-based health equity platform to flag and tackle social determinants of health (SDOH) barriers that affect the ACO’s patient population.

Shore Quality Partners is comprised of over 200 healthcare providers and 42,000 Medicaid patients, and the ACO will implement Spatially Health's Equity Equalizer platform to assess each patient’s SDOH needs. From there, the press release indicates that the tool will recommend personalized interventions to address those needs and health equity obstacles.

The approach is designed to bolster patient engagement while optimizing medical management and improving health outcomes for patients. The platform can also adapt to each new patient dataset to ensure high levels of precision and recommendation quality, according to the press release.