As much as 90% of our overall health is determined not by clinical factors, but by social, behavioral, and environmental factors – also known as social determinants of health (SDoH)

Getting access to one’s own health records can be difficult – often your health record is fragmented, with different pieces of it held by different providers, and there is typically a lengthy “authorization to release” process that involves paper forms…

The Integrated Care Collaboration (ICC) is the Health Information Exchange (HIE) for the Greater Austin/Central Texas area. HIEs organize and store electronic health information of patients across multiple providers and hospitals in one place, allowing doctors, pharmacists, EMTs and other providers to access a more complete record of patients’ medical information in a quick, secure, consistent, and cost-effective manner.

Electronic medical records (EMRs) contain a patient’s highly sensitive private information, including personally identifiable information and their healthcare records. However, these EMRs are created, maintained, and stored across multiple hospitals and healthcare providers, creating “data silos” and fragmented EMRs…

Our research on pediatric blood lead prevention is a collaborative effort between the Texas Department of State and Human Services Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (TX CLPPP), the Department of Population Health at Dell Medical School, and the Moody College…

Breathe Austin was designed as a pilot study to assess feasibility of creating a real-time SDoH data visualization portal presented in the EHR at the point of care, specifically for the care of pediatric asthma.