“The power of any type of EHR is how it’s being utilized, not only by clinicians but also by your patient population,” said Raymond Lowe, SVP and CIO at AltaMed Health Services. In this interview, he talked about how his team’s recent Epic achievement, how they’re leveraging data to help enable “culturally competent care,” and why it’s not always wise to chase perfection.
Podcast Q&A with CIO Ray Lowe, Part 2: “We need to focus on how we impact the individual.”
If you’re only using social determinant data to send referrals, you’re taking advantage of about one percent of the opportunity, said CIO Ray Lowe. In this interview, he talked about the work his team is doing to improve health at the individual level, and why he believes “we’re just scratching the surface” when it comes to SDoH.