Ian Stockwell 2003, Information Systems and Financial Economics, 2006 MSc, Economic Policy Analysis, PhD. ’14, a public policy professional who has spent more than 20 years of his career analyzing health care operations. One of the major inefficiencies in the U.S. health care system is an overreliance on clinical medicine when other interventions are also needed, such as supporting access to healthy diets and safe housing. he is watching
“Our health care system is under-investing in social needs,” Stockwell said. “It’s failing a lot of people.”
To address this shortcoming, Stockwell, now an associate professor of information systems at UMBC, recently launched a new project, supported by a five-year, $3.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. I raised it. He is partnering with a major Medicaid health plan to develop a machine learning-powered system that helps identify patients with social needs (factors like food insecurity and financial stress) that impact an individual's ability to stay healthy. is building. The system will also help determine how best to connect these patients to social support systems in the long term.
The system uses multiple individual and community-level data sources to predict which members will utilize the emergency department to meet social or non-emergency needs. It also identifies hurdles that often prevent individuals from joining organizations with community-based social needs.
The dream outcome, Stockwell said, is that the system will provide strong support for health care providers to effectively engage with people with social needs. “Then we can disseminate the infrastructure we build through the health system. Ultimately, we can use what we create to help close disparities in health outcomes in this country and help people.” I am thinking of doing so.”
The research team includes researchers from multiple departments and universities at UMBC, including Tera Reynolds, James Foulds, and Osman Gani from the School of Information Systems. Sameera Nayak, School of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health; Lucy Wilson and Dr. Joby Taylor of the Office of Emergency and Disaster Medical Systems. 2005, from the Shriver Center for Language, Literacy, and Culture.
“As a longtime UMBCer, I'm excited that this project will help expand NIH funding at the university. It also pushes the boundaries of what interdisciplinary collaboration means,” Stockwell says.
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