Social scores are invading health care

[Geee]

The Center Square

When the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system replaced paper medical charts, critics worried about personal data privacy. A dozen years later, doctors and nurses are recording non-medical social codes as part of the EHR, and those extraordinarily subjective codes will likely have a decisive impact on how much of the $4 trillion the United States currently spends on health care will be diverted to social and environmental causes.

The Biden administration’s newly formed Office of Climate Change and Health Equity (OCCHE) has introduced plans to “redress the disparities” in health outcomes across populations. OCCHE was created under Executive Order 14008 and led by Admiral Rachel Levine. The bureau is tasked to “protect the health of people throughout the US in the face of climate change, especially those experiencing a higher share of exposures and impacts.”

 

In a recent interview, Acting Director Dr. John Balbus said OCCHE is going even further. The “equity lens says that we need to be incorporating climate resilience to our built environment to improve our built environment not just when the flood hits, but for the 99% of the time when people are working, playing and going to school in their environments to redress the disparities, and we are working on that, we are working on the indicators.”

Balbus went on to share the vision for exactly how to use health care money for infrastructure. “We are working on the data systems, we’re working on getting it into the EHR and ultimately we need to get it into the Z-codes and into reimbursement strategies.”

 

Balbus proposes using health care money to fix the environment to make it healthier for those “experiencing a higher share of exposure.” OCCHE Senior Advisor Joe McCannon promises to “explore Incentives and Standards” for businesses to “improve resilience in service of vulnerable populations.”

[Valin]

1 hour ago, Geee said:

The Center Square

 

The Biden administration’s newly formed Office of Climate Change and Health Equity (OCCHE) has introduced plans to “redress the disparities” in health outcomes across populations. OCCHE was created under Executive Order 14008 and led by Admiral Rachel Levine. The bureau is tasked to “protect the health of people throughout the US in the face of climate change, especially those experiencing a higher share of exposures and impacts.”

 

Right Off The Bat Anything with the word Equity in it is immediately Suspect. 

 

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[Valin]

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Political bureaucrats have no business asking doctors and nurses to assign a subjective social score in a medical chart.

And just How are these tireless public servant supposed Monitor we poor benighted Proles?   

[Geee]

1 hour ago, Valin said:

And just How are these tireless public servant supposed Monitor we poor benighted Proles?   

I went to my eye doctor last week. I have had the same eye doctor for over 25 years. He asked me questions that were never asked at appointments before and had nothing to do with my eyes. He was also aware of changes in medications that happened recently that also have nothing to do with my eyes. WTH

[Valin]

4 minutes ago, Geee said:

I went to my eye doctor last week. I have had the same eye doctor for over 25 years. He asked me questions that were never asked at appointments before and had nothing to do with my eyes. He was also aware of changes in medications that happened recently that also have nothing to do with my eyes. WTH

Have you considered replying Doc, None Of Your Damn Business?

All I can say is IF this takes hold and to is taken seriously....I am Well And Truly Screwed. 

[Geee]

13 minutes ago, Valin said:

Have you considered replying Doc, None Of Your Damn Business?

All I can say is IF this takes hold and to is taken seriously....I am Well And Truly Screwed. 

They asked similar questions and also weighed me for my last ear exam !!!!!