Let’s talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly about Social Determinants of Health. The United States healthcare ecosystem continues to struggle with providing affordable, equitable access to preventative and episodic care. This week’s guest is John Matthew Douglas, CEO of SDoH&E Gold Standard Collaborative, Founder and CEO of iPressForward, LLC and The Lonely Entrepreneur (TLE) offers his perspective on the subject. As a SDoH advocate, John facilitates the collaboration and communication of information geared closing the gaps in the social determinants of health and education. In this episode, he offers perspective on the struggles our US healthcare system has in addressing health disparities, inequities, its economic impact and how education can be a way to start shifting this paradigm.
John Matthew also explains how, right now, we are being reactive to the conditions in the space instead of being proactive to change the characteristics of our system. He cannot stress enough the amount of money the system would save if there were more programs that address the root causes contributing to SDoH&E.
Finally, he reflects on the inequities in clinical studies with regards to race and gender.
We are honored to have JohnMatthew share his thoughts on this episode of Straight Outta Health IT, so please tune in!
