ATLANTA, Sept. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/
-- LexisNexis® Risk Solutions has released a
Socioeconomic Health Score that will provide insights on medication
adherence for patients on a prescription maintenance regimens.
Part of the company's suite of social determinants of health (SDOH)
solutions, the score predicts an individual's medication adherence
rate over 12 months with the goal of decreasing non-compliance.
"By identifying patients at the highest risk of failing to
follow their medication protocol, pharmacies, payers, providers and
other organizations entering into value-based agreements can take
proactive steps to help them stay compliant and achieve optimal
health outcomes," says Josh
Schoeller, senior vice president and general manager,
LexisNexis Risk Solutions.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions data scientists analyze environmental,
economic and community attributes to identify factors, that when
addressed, will lead to patients adhering to their medication
regimens. All attributes used in the predictive score are
clinically validated against health outcomes and help deliver the
appropriate care interventions even when little to no traditional
clinical data is available. LexisNexis Risk Solutions discovered
the following insights based on the SDOH data analysis:
- College attendance is positively correlated with medication
adherence.
- People with relatives or associates who live within 25 miles
are more likely to be adherent.
- Those individuals who are predicted to be "most adherent" are
twice as likely to follow up with office visits within two weeks of
an acute event; a practice which is known to reduce
readmissions.
- In the 12-month period analyzed there was a three-fold increase
in Emergency Room (ER) visits for patients with the lowest
medication adherence score, per the medication adherence model
showing ER visit count by predicted decile.
These types of SDOH data insights can help organizations across
the healthcare spectrum understand patient health and care needs
more holistically, which can improve patient compliance by better
addressing patient specific needs. LexisNexis Risk Solutions seeks
to advance the value of SDOH data in healthcare and is part of a
cross-industry collaborative that developed the guiding principles
for use of SDOH data.
Medication adherence tools are essential for healthcare
organizations in today's value-based system where nearly three in
five1 Americans take at least one daily medication.
Non-compliance negatively affects both the health outcomes and
healthcare costs. As the prevalence of patients with chronic
conditions will continue to increase,2 poor
medication adherence costs the U.S. healthcare system at least
$100 billion in preventable medical
costs annually.3 Non-adherence has significant negative
consequences on both patients and providers, including loss of
treatment effectiveness and added costs.4
LexisNexis Risk Solutions Socioeconomic Health Score can provide
insights into the key social determinants driving the medication
adherence prediction so that healthcare organizations can help
connect patients with resources to address their holistic needs. It
can be used both independently of other clinical analytics models
and in conjunction with existing care management, discharge, and
planning platforms. The new predictive score is available in real
time via API and in batch format.
To learn more about LexisNexis Socioeconomic Health Scores,
click here.
About LexisNexis Risk Solutions
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions harnesses the power of data and advanced
analytics to provide insights that help businesses and governmental
entities reduce risk and improve decisions to benefit people around
the globe. We provide data and technology solutions for a wide
range of industries including insurance, financial services,
healthcare and government. Headquartered in metro Atlanta, Georgia, we have offices throughout
the world and are part of RELX (LSE: REL/NYSE: RELX), a global
provider of information-based and analytics and decision tools for
professional and business customers across industries. For more
information, please visit www.risk.lexisnexis.com and
www.relx.com.
References
- Accessed via
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/11/03/more-americans-than-ever-are-taking-prescription-drugs/
- Accessed via
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5876976/
- Accessed via
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/well/the-cost-of-not-taking-your-medicine.html
- Accessed via
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5055556/
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